The windmill century or how I learn to love the bonk...

[Brandy]

Great report! I think that riding 93 miles in the heat on Saturday is pretty damn impressive, so you should be proud of yourself!!!

I have to tell you that during my ride on Saturday different riders would ride up and encourage me by saying that I would do fine at Cool Breeze and every time I would say...I hope that the century lives up to it's name and that there really will be COOL BREEZES!!! I've had enough of the heat and humidity!!

[caligurl]

brandy.... i rode cool breeze in LONG SLEEVES last year! granted.... i unzipped for several of the climbs... but nonethless.... i was in long sleeves the WHOLE day and didn't keel over! lol! lets hope the weather is close to what it was last year!

fredwina... YIKES! their route is only mapped at 96 miles? i'd have been major TICKED off that i had to find another 4 miles to ride in order to be able to count it as a century! if they are advertising a CENTURY... then they should give you a CENTURY!

[Fredwina]

If I remember right, UMCA (Ultra Marathon Cycling Association) allows you to count 95-105 miles as a century. The Stagecoach was also only 95 miles(at least they made turn aruond then). Palm Spings , Solvang, and El Tour De Tucson are all 105-110, so it all averages out.
Brandy, I'm getting a little of driving 100 miles for a ride, only to be greeted with same weather as if I stayed in the Inland Empire, Hopefully, CB will live up to its name

[caligurl]

If I remember right, UMCA (Ultra Marathon Cycling Association) allows you to count 95-105 miles as a century. The Stagecoach was also only 95 miles(at least they made turn aruond then). Palm Spings , Solvang, and El Tour De Tucson are all 105-110, so it all averages out.
Brandy, I'm getting a little of driving 100 miles for a ride, only to be greeted with same weather as if I stayed in the Inland Empire, Hopefully, CB will live up to its name

if you rode out and back a second time (from lunch back to the turnaround... and that WAS on the route slip).... you got your 100 at stagecoach...

i don't care what UMCA says.... "I" don't call it a century if "I" don't ride 100 miles... if i were doing the CAM challenge... and i only rode 99.5 miles... it would not be a century! and for that matter... if i were doing the CAM... and did a double metric... i'd still count that as my century for that month.. cuz it's OVER 100 miles.... (i didn't do the turnaround at stagecoach... but you bet your butt i put it at the end... until my odometer clicked over 100... i had NOT done a century!)

hmmmmmm so if you talk about the "averaging out.... if i do 5 rides that are 120 miles... i've actually done 6 centuries cuz it averages out? no... ! lol! don't think so!

i'll bet if you take a poll... you'll find that there are very few people that will call 95 (or even 96, 97, 98 or 99 miles a CENTURY!)