Great century. Check out www.cibaride.org for details. If the route is the same as last year, the century is about 8,000 feet of climbing.

I did the 50-miler again this year. I do not ride hills much and am not very good anyway. I walked several hills. No improvement from last year. I need to concentrate on losing weight and weight training to develop more power.

I was out for the 100 miler.

Was feelimg great. Until I went down.

Ended up with a compound fracture of my left ulna.

But at least it was a really nice day from a weather standpoint!

Sorry to hear about the injury. I also made the 50 miler, but thanks to some hill work earlier in the year and a visit to GA mountains, we made all the hills ok, just started to run out of gas in the latter stages. My riding buddy did break a spoke trying to miss a hole in the road.

most of the area I saw had pretty good pavement. I also heard that the century was two laps of the park...can't confirm, we might have just been adding this for the heck of it.

SSRider, do you do the trainer out of Clark elementary?

I don't, though I've been invited a few times - including while down in Georgia at Tour de GA. I'm a morning rider (6:10 am departures right now), so it doesn't fit the schedule the same for me. I do occasionally ride with some of the same guys though on Saturday morning South Stars route (very occasionally). It's time to get back with that group again - should be at the 8 am start time, which fits the weekend schedule better. I'm glad it's finally warm in the am too - was pretty darn tired of 45° morning rides. Now if the storms would give us a break.

Did you record elevation for the JAWS ride? I have conflicting data. My topomap says it was about 4000 ft. in the 50 miles, but when I uploaded the data from my Garmin 205 to MotionBased, it showed 6000 ft., thought the data correction was turned on. That's a large difference.

Unfortunately, I didn't turn off the cpu after the wreck, soI don't have good elevation data. Last year was about 8000 ft. It did seem to be greater than the CIBA folks had mentioned, and most everyone I spoke to had elevations closer to mine than CIBA's. I might use the topo software for CT just to see what it comes up with.