First Fixed Century
 

Hey,

Completed my first Century ever all fixed gear this past Thursday.

According to Strava it took 7:56 to go 106 miles.

Made the trip with two Crossfit beasts and was the only fixed gear. They took good care of me and let me draft them most of the trip and learned a lot from them in regards to riding on the street and nutrition during the ride.

They thought i was crazy attempting my first century on a fixed gear and to have only been riding a few weeks.

Road 20 miles in pouring rain which hurt like hell but i was surprised at how good i felt the following day. Wasn't sore at all.

Cant wait to do a few more but am now anxiously waiting on some free time to try my luck at a velodrome to see how that feels.

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Bike 46x17:
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Oh, no. Were they yammering about that Paleo crap?

Great work!

I'm also impressed that you could ride that long with only climbing 33ft haha.

Lol no.

I understand hydration from playing sports my whole life but am new to spending so long on a bike and more so about eating at intervals, etc...

Had Nutella sandwiches with me to eat during intervals and had lunch at the half way mark.

Probably Florida, haha

Haha, i think the height/climbs are way off, we went over a few pretty tall bridges around the beaches. I had to sprint up as i was scared of getting stuck half way... They just cruised up in low gears.

It is pretty flat around here.

Well done mate. :thumb:

Got any plans for more foolishness? :D

Congrats! I'm hoping/planning to do my first fixed century this year. :thumb:

Thanks. Yes Sir, planning on riding to Key West and back ~200+ miles. :)

Thanks. It's fun, seems bad during but once you finish you realize it wasn't so bad.

I find athletics to be more of a mental challenge than a physical one but once you decide not finishing is worse than the pain you'll do fine. :thumb:

Yeah Strava doesn't do so well with elevation and bridges. A segment I do frequently is a bridge over a larger river, and the elevation chart for the segment is actually inverted, as though the road followed the ground down to the river and back up the other side.

What a grand effort.:thumb:

I think a metric centry (just over 62 mi.) counts towards the membership. Another twenty miles and you could count two.:rolleyes:

Great job, congrats.

Zach did a century in Florida: 105mi with 0 (****ING ZERO) feet of elevation gain. Hahahaha.

Where are you located? Im in Kendall hammocks area im down to ride if are ever down

Small world, my ride started from my shop on 142 ave and 120 street.

Thinking of going to Critical Mass Friday.

I usually ride the new back road by the dog park on weeknights and around tamiami airport we should ride sometime dude im always riding alone no ****

holy crap, 100mi and no elevation? I'd rock that fixed and in flip flops!
Good on you for the effort, go up to GA for your next century, drop the gearing and add some hills.

Ah, I ride the same areas in the morning as its the only time available for me to get a ride in before work.