Originally Posted by KevinF
There's a big difference between pushing yourself to see where your limits have grown to and doing something stupid. Doubling your longest ride ever while at the same time at least doubling the amount of climbing you've ever done in a single ride qualifies as "stupid" in my book.
When I was first starting out biking with my mtn bike I nearly tripled the distance I had ever done before with a 35mile ride. I completed it, and was proud to know I was capable of doing it.
Earlier this year, I nearly doubled my longest ride distance with a metric century. It was a lot more climbing than I had done in one day before, but I completed it, and was proud to know I was capable of doing it.
The worst thing that happens is he doesn't complete the ride and he tries again next year. How is that stupid?