I'm with Mr. Silver, I think you can do it.

RAIN's on my list of cycling goals too. Well, my century was suppose to be this year but you can see the result of that with my dog crash thread *sigh*. Being positive and looking forward though...

I think finding what is the right food and drink combo for you is a lot of trail and error. Tons of great reading on here to stir your thoughts on where to start. And I bought some cycling books related to distance riding and sports nutrition etc.

Keeping a training log is key to sorting out that trial and error, imho.

Simple notebook works. But, I would forget to find the paper when I needed to. So, I started typing mine in the notes section of my Garmin bike computer in Training Center on the pc. Desk top computer is pretty hard to misplace lol. And part of closing my ride is enjoying the review of my stats.

And hey, you know what... if you "go for it" and it doesn't pan out... there is another year to try again. Good Luck!