I'll start by saying that last year, I did a ton of centuries. Okay, not a ton, but at least 20. So, I should know what I'm doing - right? WRONG!

I rode about 50 miles on Saturday. Sunday, I had a late start. I had a bagel around 10am, but didn't start riding until around 1pm. Rode for a while, did a hard, all out effort for another 10 miles, rode a while more. On the way back, I knew I had a tailwind, but I was just dragging. Why, with as much as I've learned about nutrition, does it still take me about 3 miles to realize I'm bonking. I had only ridden about 45 miles, but because it was now about 4:00, and all I'd eaten all day was a bagel, I bonked. Shoot - I would have bonked sitting at my desk with only a bagel all day! I forget what my point was, but there's one in there somewhere...