Originally Posted by
billyymc
Follow up on this.
I did my double yesterday, solo except for 15 miles where a friend met and pulled me.
203.4 miles, a little over 6k feet climbing, 11:50 moving time for about 17.2 mph average, total time with breaks of 13:12.
Had 20 miles directly into 15 mph winds which sucked and made me want to quit halfway through, then another 30-50 miles of windy but not as bad.
More than once in the last 30 miles I seriously wondered if I could rest my head on the aerobars and close my eyes for a few minutes.
Would not do it solo again, but would ride that distance with a few others to share the work.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! August 9th I did a solo 201 miles and definitely not going to be my last. Thinking about another Cross Florida next year and also Bike Sebring 12/24 Hour RAAM Qualifier. Will hold off on registration for Sebring until day before to see how I'm feeling. This year things were looking good for 350 miles BUT night before my right knee buckled so I had pain for all of my solo 266 miles.
Very disappointed since I had to take extended breaks and wound up only riding about 20 hours of the 24.