Duffy

Did 28 miles(longest yet) today in 1 hour and 42 minutes. Felt really good after the ride. Had a few hills towards the end where I was tired but overall I was pleased.

the BIG cheese

the most ive done is 75 km on a mtb. wew i was beat after that....

Tomi

I did 140 km a few times, and plan to start doing it more often, as I have bought a road bike.
The ride is almost flat, but with 700 m climb overall.

mechBgon

Way to go Duffy, do you have any goals on your agenda next? I did a little 29km ride today because I'm trying to get some fitness back for an 80km organized ride August 10, and I don't want to look totally gutless on the hills. It was about 35C/93F today, so it was pretty hot. Thank goodness we have low humidity around here...

grego262

Just started about about 3 weeks ago longest ride has been ~16.42 miles in 68 minutes. I will be going longer as soon as I come up with a way to mix it into my half marathon training.

but I love to ride

Duffy

There is an MS ride in Orange Beach,Al. 9/28/02. It consists of 35 miles for 2 days. Might try that. My immediate goal is to go 30,then get to the point where that is fairly easy, then go for another 5 miles,etc,etc. BTW Did 15 miles on Sunday at an average speed of 18.7 mph.

Pat

Gosh, I remember my first ambitious ride. Road down to eaton rapids and back about 33 miles. I did not take enough water and got dehydrated and it really hit me at the end of the ride. That was one of my EPIC rides. I was going up Waverly Road hill and this poor guy in an old clunker drove slowly behind me and I was going slow. His car could not take the grade at that speed and it stalled out in a cloud of noxious smoke. I felt kinda bad about that. I have ridden lots of centuries since then and forget most of them, but I won't forget that one. Congratulations.

MichaelW

My longest ride must have been over 100 miles, but I wasnt counting. I left before 9 in the morning, and rode all day. I was buying up all the cereal bars and bananas in small village shops as I passed, just to keep me going. For the last 10 miles my dynamo was in action, and I probably finished at 8:00 in the evening.
Much of the ride was along reclaimed land below sea level, and dead flat. Flat miles are much harder on your butt than hilly ones.

mechBgon

My own most epic ride was a round-trip one-day mini-tour to the Grand Coulee Dam and back, from Spokane, WA USA. I started around 9AM and headed east on the state highways. My faithful old Univega sport-touring bike had a rear rack and panniers and a dynamo light system.

It was hot weather, about 95F/35C out on the rolling plains, and as I approached the river gorge, I ran into a asphalt-laying project. The air was shimmering like crazy on the black new asphalt, but I had something like five large-sized waterbottles with me and I kept them topped off as I went. "Are you all right?" asked a guy from the surveyors' crew. "I'm fine!" I laughed, and finally got to the edge of the gorge, went down, lay in the lake at the beach for a while, then went into Grand Coulee for a meal, stayed late enough to watch the laser light show on the dam, and began climbing out of the gorge toward Spokane, engaging my dynamo since it was now dark.

Around 4AM I was so tired I started seeing spots, and decided "rattlesnakes be darned, I'm going to lie down and sleep," which I did off the road a little ways, but about an hour later I awoke, foggily calculated distance to Spokane versus average speed, and decided I'd better press on so I could be to work by 9AM I reached home 23.5 hours after leaving, having covered 185mi/~300km. When I got to the bike shop, the owner sent me home to get more rest.