Originally Posted by
demolay rules
I don't understand how some of you guys can do like a hundred miles and when I do like 20 I'm completely drained...is it bike fit, over doing it at the beginning, or what? Is it just endurance????
That's hard to say without knowing what you're doing exactly.
Maybe you're riding a BMX or mountain bike with very low seat- that makes it harder.
Or a bike with big knobby cushy tires- that affects it.
Maybe you live in the Andes and it's uphill all the time.
Maybe you ride just as fast as you can everywhere you go.
Anyway, I'm overweight, slow, riding the yellow bike in the avatar picture, and I've ridden a couple of century rides. So chances are that you can too, given the right conditions. And if you're just out of shape, you could probably be up for 100 mile rides within a year if you're doing 20 now.