Originally Posted by
RossThompson
You should be good to go. Work on the back pain, play with hand positions, raise and lower your bars. Get all your "tuning" out with a couple weeks to get use to your final adjustments and dont adjust multiple things at once.
My first century I leaned that stopping is good, however dont stop too much and for too long. Get off, fill your bottle grab a banana or whatever and eat it ON the bike. I stopped enough, but sat too long making the getting going hard and added about 2.5hrs to the ride.
I was very aware of the stopping issue on my 75 mile test run. I stopped 3 times for a total of 27 min. The 3 stops were bathroom breaks or eating 1/2 a turkey sandwich standing up. I never sat down and rested. Despite my efforts that stopping time really adds up.