Originally Posted by
TheRealFaux
You're totally right. I have been more often referring to my rides in time duration than in mileage. I feel like I subconsciously listed the mileage in that post because most everyone on this forum refers to their rides in distance length.
Haha - just bustin' your balls man.
Your chosen metric (distance) was appropriate for your audience here. To me, a "metric century" is nearly meaningless without some indicator of effort - was your ride completed in 4hrs on a flat course with a tailwind, or in 4hrs with 5k+ feet of vertical?
If you're using power, it becomes totally objective: I did a 4hr ride at 70% FTP, for example - which is actually a huge effort that would put you in some serious fatigue for a couple days unless you have the aerobic base of a TdF pro. Even an average joe like you or myself should be able to ride for 3+hrs over consecutive days at 60%, as a counter example.
But not everyone has to become some data obsessed racer like myself

. To each his or her own - and again, people will actually relate to you here if you tell them you rode a metric century vs. xhrs at y% FTP. I would post distance here for my rides but I don't even check anymore

, haven't for years -
no importa.