Heh.
Mine was last year and was about 4 months into my cycling career, and I did it solo. I managed to pick the hottest day of the year to do it on. 90+* and humid, so everytime I exhaled it felt like I was being hit in the face with a brick.
Anyway, didn't eat nearly enough, didn't drink nearly enough. I felt relatively okay until around mile 60. Felt like I was going insane by mile 70, felt like I was going to die by mile 80, found my second wind at mile 90. There were two significant climbs, one of 1500ft and another of around 800ft or so. The rest was rolling. Around 4000ft of climbing for the day, 15.66mph avg. Took me a couple of days to recover, I could barely breathe or stand after I finished it (literally)...I never wanted to do another century again.
I Did my last century a couple of weeks ago and considered it a long training ride. 6000ft of climbing, a bit over 19mph, also solo. And I felt perfect afterwards
