Originally Posted by
downtube42
People who manage 100 miles in five hours usually figure out a couple things. One, mostly nobody cares. Two, others can do it in four.
Same thing for 100 miles, and 200. Same thing for 200 and 300. For 300 and 400. And yes, if you do 400 someone else will do 500. Again nobody cares, and it doesn't really matter. Then some dude writes an article saying 30 miles is the perfect ride distance.
It's all good.
Yeah, I think it's absurd for us to try to set ideals and goals for each other. Main thing is doing what you enjoy that motivates you to keep riding. Lots of people can ride a solo century faster than I can, I just use the number 100 to motivate myself because it sounds better than 75 or whatever. Like you say, nobody else cares how far I go.
That 30 mile ride thing was a brilliant piece of clickbait, btw.