Confessions? I read all the time about your 40 or longer mile rides and how you guys call 20 miles a short ride. I just got back from a 24 mile ride. I was dead about the 21 mile mark. I dropped from 18 mph down to 10-12 like right now as soon as I hit 21 miles. This was on a steady 1% grade out and back and the back was the 1% down hill part. (18-20 mph cruising romile 12 to 21)

I read all the time about you guys' climbing for miles. I have a few 10-12 mile loops around home I started riding this year all up and down hills. I have usually 800-900 feet of climbing, usually no more that for a quarter mile before I'mm heading back downhill and as soon as I'm heading up, I'm down in my 26/34 gear at 3-4 mph trudging up the hill.

One more confession. I'm a clyde and I ate an 1126 calorie breakfast as opposed to my usual 200 calorie bowl of cheerios this morning before logging it in MyFitnessPal and realizing breakfast was 2/3 of my allotted calories, lol. Luckily I didn't eat lunch and my computer tells me I burned 1089 of them on the ride.