Originally Posted by 2Klose

I participated in numerous spin classes and pushed myself really hard. My "on the road' training consisted of 25-35 mile efforts due to time and family constraints. I did push myself pretty hard on those efforts. My longest was 42 miles.
The day of my metric I dialed it down and didn't go as hard as I normally would, keeping something in the tank. I was really pretty fresh by mile 42 and decided to push the pace a bit. I ended pretty strongly and I think the key was dialing it down at the beginning.