Originally Posted by
jppe
The one piece about training that is often overlooked is the mental test it can put you through. It's times like Saturday's ride that I can fall back on when I'm doing rides in the future when things are going exactly to plan. Some times (it seems to be getting more often for me) that you just have to grind it out some way, some how.
Absolutely right. Congrats on seeing it through to the end. I would say this century will rank with the ones you will talk about most into the future. It's odd how the really smooth and easy ones sort of become almost... forgettable... but the tough ones linger longer in the memory.
I am just glad you didn't use the words "suffer" and "sufferfest".
I've now got interminable sinusitis thanks to an infected tooth last year. A course of gorillabotics didn't get rid of it, like Dudelsack's, so I just use a nasal spray now to get around 12 hours' relief.