300K Forecast

[Geonz]

If there's something else you could be doing htat would be more fun (and it sounds like root canals might be in that category), then that might be what to do.
If you have a really bad time ... will it keep you from having good times later? Will you feel like you're not cut out for this stuff? Or will the getting tougher and stretching your limits be a motivator? Or, flip a coin :-)

[Nanci]

With a brevet series, you kind of have to go no matter what, because they are set up in a series of increasing distance, usually about four weeks apart, so if you miss the 300k in your area, you have to travel further, maybe really far, to get the 300k. You _could_ just skip it, but then you wouldn't qualify for a 1200k race, if that was your goal, (Boston-Montreal-Boston is held this year, and next year will be Paris-Brest-Paris, which is only held every four years) and even if you didn't want to qualify for a 1200k (and who knows, but the time you're qualified, you might want to do it, even if you didn't think it was possible back when you did the 200k) you still would probably want to earn the Super Randonneur Award by doing the 200k, 300k, 400k and 600k all in one year.