200 miles on a lark.
 

Last Friday, Oct.24th It was the most miserable thing I have ever done in my life…and can’t wait to do it again.

“Do you want to ride with us to the beach in October?”

“Hell yeah!”

That was my first mistake. I haven’t ridden more than 100 miles in over a year. The fact that I had been riding at least 6 hours a week all year made me think that 200 miles wouldn’t be that hard especially since the last 100 is fairly flat.

I started typing a full report but words fail to convey the true range of pain, fear and elation experienced being on a bike for 11 hours at a pace set by 8 others who had trained for it.. At one point I was going to sell all of my bikes and give up cycling.

Everyone should do one.

I think I’m one of the few people on earth that can ride 200 miles and gain 3 pounds.

time for you to move to seattle, and hang out with all of those self satisfied rando-nerds. ;)

Eff that. I'm buying a recumbent.

funny, i was gonna say the same thing.

congrats on the double, wanders!

Not to mention you wouldn't have to ride 200 miles to get to a beach.

Congratulations.. you crazy fool!

I often think of riding 120+ miles but that's around 50-60 miles into it when I'm feeling OK. By the end of the century I'm feeling like it's time to wrap it up for the day and definitely not thinking about another 100 miles.

One of these days I'm going to set aside a whole day and ride till my legs quit or my ***** hurts so bad I have to get off the bike. I'd like to see what I could do given 10+ hours of riding. Not going to happen this year though!

Very respectable -- congrats!

Those are allowed. I believe that bent riders are nerds by definition anyway.

Granted, but I prefer my beaches with jellyfish, sandfleas, and drunken bikini-clad baby balugas.

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psuaero - the emphasis should be on fool.

My only advice is to eat, drink, and eat and drink more. I forced myself to do both even being nauseous for 60% of the ride.