Originally Posted by
BarryJo
You will ride in multiple centuries. A century is 100 miles, if you can ride 60-70 miles solo, you'll finish a century (one pedal stroke at a time)
You will participate in a few races. Pick them out, register for them and then do them.
http://www.bikereg.com/
Racing will help you in keeping up with the A ride.
Yeah, that is what I have heard also. The metric century was on mostly flat terrain, and consisted of a 32 mi each way route. So I also am confident that a century is doable within my abilities.
I'm just very self conscious (I guess it's from being an only child), so I worry in the unrealistic (I hope) probability of competing in a race and being utterly last.
In the A group that I go with, the ones who lead the A group are those who race. I see the correlation
/changes his goal to "Will lead the A group by the end of 2010"
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