Well, I was just reading about other peoples' first century rides (wow!), and since everybody was so helpful with suggestions, concern, and suppport, here is my report!

It went well, and I finished in one piece, and did better than I thought. I did the Enchanted Circle tour in RedRiver, NM and my start to finish was 7:05 and ride time 6:22. I was pretty pleased with this. There was a yucky 4-5mile climb at mile 91, but that made the subsequent downhill to finish very rewarding. I am looking forward to another one, I really enjoyed it, except for the last couple miles of that climb, it was a little tortorous . . .

Thanks again to everybody who helped me with advice and concern, I really appreciated it!