Woohoo! I'm already riding a metric half-century! Well, almost. I'm a couple miles shy, but I could do it.

Okay, I had to go look up a conversion table to see how far a metric century was in relation to miles...62.something...so if I ride 63 miles, that's a metric century, and I can already do 30 miles.

I think I can add a few miles each week as the training programs here suggest. I'm on a mountain bike with mtb wheels...that's slowing me down, but I like the stability. (This from the woman who's wrecked the thing - hard - at least twice since October.)

There's a metric century as part of the Tour of Poway coming in October. That's the ride where DD, age 10 at the time, and I road the 18 mile course, which included the 3-mile-long, 8% Poway Grade. I was hoping we could do the 26-mile course this year, but that's my light training ride these days. Not really much of a challenge, except for my favorite training course doesn't have an 8% grade in it.

Hmmm...could I do a metric century by October? Mebbe.

Roxy