My 4 weeks to train for a metric century turned into 3 weeks when illness hit me for nearly a week. In the middle of those three weeks my amazing wife gave birth to our 8th child. As you can imagine, this further limited my, so called, "Training." Most of my workouts consisted of intervals on the stationary trainer at the gym with one 27 mile bike ride being my only real ride of any significant distance. I did a number of 10 mile or less rides in hopes of getting used to sitting on the saddle again.
Somehow, I finished the metric century. This was my only goal. With Map My Ride showing two Cat 3 and one Cat 2 climbs, I had no goal for finishing under any set length of time. And that is a good thing since I took longer doing this metric century than a full century would have taken me when I was younger.
Most of it was fun. Fourteen miles were excruciating. The finish was a peaceful sense of accomplishment.
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