Originally posted by willic
With one proviso, limit the time spent on stops to only a few minutes, say ten, from my own personal experience longer stops than this relax muscles for to long and then it becomes an agonising experience.
That happened to me. I took a half-hour break at around mile 70 and when I got going again, I started getting leg cramps 5 miles later. I was able to massage them out and continue on to complete the century but my leg kept bothering me throughout the rest of the day and gave me a few problems on the hills during the next day's century too.