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Roger Zoul and I rode together at Festivelo and did the English century.
I had done an organized century in my youth--that one was a recreation
of the 100th anniversary of the first 100 mile bicycle ride in the
United States (Boston, mid 1970s). But this was my first century in
nearly 30 years.
I did a metric century in October and trained so well for it that it
seemed easy--I didn't feel like I had accomplished something big. This
time I knew I was undertrained but wanted to push myself and see if I
could do it. I haven't been able to ride as much since October--the
longest ride I've done in the last month was 50 miles on Thanksgiving.
It feels good to have accomplished something hard. I didn't hurt at all
until about 60 miles and then only intermittently, but I almost turned
into the camp at 94 miles instead of going 5 miles out and back to a
rest stop that was scheduled to be closed by the time we got there.
Roger was determined to keep going and at the last minute I decided to
also. It was great to have a riding partner--I don't think I would have
succeeded alone.
More of the story is at: http://deeplanguage.blogspot.com/
Pam
I had done an organized century in my youth--that one was a recreation
of the 100th anniversary of the first 100 mile bicycle ride in the
United States (Boston, mid 1970s). But this was my first century in
nearly 30 years.
I did a metric century in October and trained so well for it that it
seemed easy--I didn't feel like I had accomplished something big. This
time I knew I was undertrained but wanted to push myself and see if I
could do it. I haven't been able to ride as much since October--the
longest ride I've done in the last month was 50 miles on Thanksgiving.
It feels good to have accomplished something hard. I didn't hurt at all
until about 60 miles and then only intermittently, but I almost turned
into the camp at 94 miles instead of going 5 miles out and back to a
rest stop that was scheduled to be closed by the time we got there.
Roger was determined to keep going and at the last minute I decided to
also. It was great to have a riding partner--I don't think I would have
succeeded alone.
More of the story is at: http://deeplanguage.blogspot.com/
Pam