Originally Posted by
lungimsam
Hi y'all,
I was wundrin' if anyone has done a metric century or regular century without training. Just from your commuting rides. Do you all think it is enough training on your commute rides to handle a metric century. I do 12 miles minimum round trip daily commuting on undulating roads. 20 if I escort my wife to work on her bike (she commutes too a few times a week).
I know this might sound like nitpicking but it depends exactly what you call a century.
I ride for pleasure with a bit of utility cycling thrown in (usually visiting friends here and there). Having ridden up to 30 miles in a day I did 150 miles in two days with some friends, then 110 in one day getting back again (via a more direct route). So that was a century in the sense it was over 100 miles in one day, but some would say it doesn't count as a century because we stopped for breakfast, stopped for lunch, stopped for coffee at a little cafe beside the river, and took the entire day to cover the distance.