Originally Posted by
achoo
Nailed it.
You cramped on your first century? In other words, you'd never ridden that far before. And because there were a lot of other riders around, I'd bet you were pushing harder than you really should have been - even after that five minute hard effort to start, especially early in the ride. You paid for that "HARD" effort later.
Welcome to the club.
On my first century I cramped so bad and so suddenly you can see where I cramped on the GPS plot - I almost fell over and I started wobbling all over the road. About 80 miles into the ride. The last 20 miles were hard...
Don't think it matters but this was a 'pure solo effort' (I was the organizer and sole rider). Regardless it would appear that (based on results) I was riding harder than I should have been even though (outside of 'the warm-up') it seemed pretty restrained. I would like to think that a couple miles of hard effort would be very recoverable, but maybe not.
dave