You should see how upset people get if they don't get the full hundred miles, though, like Six Gap last year. People were going out and riding two more miles so they could say they did 100!

I was doing a ride by myself a couple Saturdays ago, scouting part of the 400k route of this coming Saturday. I missed a turn, and figured it out about two miles later. So to back track would add on 4 miles, total, or I could short cut and get back on course, but miss the part I wanted to see. I had to have this little mental arguement with myself- (I'd ridden about 90-100 miles, already) the whole point of the ride was to familiarize myself, in daylight, with a part I would be riding at night. Like, if I'm doing a 110 mile ride, an additional four miles is really going to kill me...I went back and did the correct course.

Nanci