I've never gotten bored while riding and I usually don't feel like my legs sore. It's just a general feeling of fatigue. I usually only ride between 20 and 25 miles so I never take any breaks. I'm not sure how my body would respond to breaks. I did enjoy the long one we took on the 47 mile ride. The short ones didn't seem to help any. There will be rest stops every 10 miles so I don't plan on wearing a Camelbak. I wore one on the 47 mile ride because I was afraid of running out of water (along with 2 bottles of Gatorade). There were a couple of times I felt like tossing the Camelbak in the ditch!! I felt like my back was on fire!! I drank 1 1/2 bottles of Gatorade and about 1/3 of my Camelbak. I sweat a lot! I can see little rivers of sweat running down my shins, my hair becomes wet enough that I can actually wring it out, and sweat drips off of my nose and chin. When I take off my helmet a puddle of sweat runs out - the headband in the helmet acts as a dam. So under those circumstances that's still plenty of fluid, right?