I want to do a metric century and a century(100 miles), but until I get the carpal tunnel release on the left hand, I don't think that will be possible--at least not without a crap load of stops making the ride last 10+hours.

Here is link to my Garmin data from the Century on Saturday. https://connect.garmin.com/activity/168107906

Or, if you prefer, here it is on Strava: https://app.strava.com/rides/6788377

The OP asked about an acceptable time for a century, but under ordinary circumstances my time of 9:45 would be very slow. The difference here was the 13,000 feet of climbing, some of which was on mightly steep roads. Actual riding time was 8:56.

As you can see from the temps, it was a good day for climbing, plus (you can't see) super clear and beautiful day in the Santa Monica mountains. From the altitude chart you can see we were up and down a lot throughout the day.

None of the climbs really bothered me until Stunt Road which we began to climb with 92.6 miles on our legs. Plus, dumb move, I'd forgotten one of my bottles at the prev. checkpoint. So I had to ration the one bottle I had, which I'm sure didn't help. Not horribly steep, mostly 6 - 7%, but I was dragging.

At the top of Stunt, a kind soul gave me another water bottle (didn't get his name), plus I hung out there, hydrating, and didn't have any other problems for the remainer of the 116 mile total. Overall a great day and a fun ride; lots of friends either riding or working the checkpoints (one reason I spent almost an hour, total, at the checkpoints).

Rick / OCRR

Did 231 miles yesterday.

(An event called a "fleche")

Ride them when the weather is good. It has been a problem this year. Not complaining.
I commute RT 15 miles, to a retired group that mostly rides 70 miles.

That gives me 85 miles. When they go long and put me in the 90's I will finish with a 100 mile ride.
The most I have done:
https://i256.photobucket.com/albums/h...eenShot094.jpg

LOL. Seventeen centuries in a month. That's a lot of riding.

I used to have a similar experience with a club I belonged to. The Sunday club run was usually c.70 miles and the start/finish point was about 18 miles from my house, so I ended up doing quite a few centuries that year.

Okay, they just posted the results from the Mulholland Century Challenge.

Looks like I finished 161st overall and 9th in the Geezer Men's Division (60 - 97) with an official time of 9:46:26. That's out of 330 riders and 29 over 60 riders (men and women).

Here's the link to the results: https://racedaytiming.com/r_results.p...60-97&div=show

Rick / OCRR