It was my first century of the year yesterday. I'd ridden close to that once before but this was most definitely the longest ride I've done by a fair margin in the last few months. It felt good to get out there and ride 100 miles, don't get me wrong it hurt pretty badly too, though I can't imagine doing that sort of distance very often.
I felt pretty trashed the rest of the day. I ate a lot of food throughout the afternoon and ended up passing out on the couch around 10:30pm (I missed the Venture Bros. season finally!) and woke up starving and pretty dehydrated. I drank a lot, ate some food, came to work... am eating more food now, but still feel pretty out of it.
We did the ride in 5h 10m which I think is a record for me at that distance. We pushed it pretty hard despite the wind and hills. We started slow since we had a lot of people with us, after the first rest stop we had a few less, and on the last 50 miles there were only five of us. It felt like I did a lot of the pulling, though typically I dropped people when I pulled on anything other than a downhill.
All in all, it was a good ride. I'm glad I did it. Though my legs would disagree.
-Later
2 comments:
That's a good pace. Though, you know, people don't like it when you turn their century into a hammerfest. They knew what they were getting into, right? It wasn't a charity ride, right?
oh they knew. It was a pre-ride for the century they are doing 2 weeks from now. The riders I was with were a lot of the regulars I ride with. So I was nice for the first 75 miles or so.
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