chewybrian 

Had the day off after being SAG support on Sunday's ride (what does SAG mean, anyway?).

So, I went for a solo century. Personal best of 7:22 total, with 7:10 on the bike--one 12 minute stop for latte and water. This is my tortoise and hare strategy for all brevets, so I am very happy about only 12 minutes off. I'm also very wiped out, from a full effort.

10 Wheels

S A G
Support and Gear

PAlt

Saturday, May 2nd. Tour De Cashiers, Cashiers, NC. 100.8mi. 10,467ft of climb. 6hr. 38min. Rain & 57deg. A great ride under not so great conditions.

RedRider2009

I completed my first century of 2009-6hr:21m:22s, the total distance was 103.24mi. I was happy with this century, this was the fastest century I have done, and was self-supported.

Jasper Storm

May finished, 5/9.

Rode the Skagit Spring Classic Century. Absolutely perfect weather, sunny with temps warming into the 60's.

100.67 miles (solo)
17.6 mph average
5hr 41min rolling time
5hr 50min total time

JimF22003

2nd of the month on Saturday. Capital 2 Capital ride from Richmond to Williamsburg and back. The start was kind of a zoo with the mass start. Set a new PR for me, though at 5:33 for the century.

Backstage

My May century is complete. I rode 141 miles on Saturday the 11th. With temps climbing into the nineties, I bailed out of my first 400K brevet. It was a good ride as I averaged almost 15mph and got about 8000' of climbing. I am having a really hard time with the heat this season.

mattm

165km done, the first actual "century" i've done in a while.. i usually do under 80 miles and over 125 i guess.

it was training for this weekend's 400k, feeling good.

10 Wheels

May 11th complete 100.12 miles

May 16th 2nd one 100.13 miles

Five Rides, 448 miles for the week.

yeamac 

^^^ Slacker. Only one century so far this month?

I went 4 weeks without being on my road bike and was a little worried about my fitness for yesterday's century. No worries. It was "just like riding a bike."

My most recent:

May 15
102.2 miles
16.5 mph average speed
6:12:00 moving time
8:16:15 total time

Michelangelo

Hey, I am back. I failed to do the February century (sick) and stopped posting. catching up now.

March. Resumed in March 14 by a 233 km with a home start at 5:00. I went to have a drink in a bar at Longny au Perche, followed the next day by a 150 km club ride (not qualifying).

April. 4 April was the BRM 200 of Versailles. Quite slow and rainy, but 200 km nevertheless. 11 April was the flèche Velocio. While the ACP team did a magnificent 620 km ride against the wind, we did a 363 km and arrived at Le Pontel (Avignon) saturday at 16:00, just in time before the rain which then started pouring all over the night for the latest teams, who all arrived soaked (latest was 10:00 sunday morning).

May. May started with a couple of cyclocamping week-ends. Both were great, the first even better. Then, yesterday was the 100000th BRM 300 organised by ACP in Noisiel. Could not miss that. Hilly and fast. I stopped riding with the quickies by the 120th km and came back far more slowly. this qualifies too. I guess I should not be posting here since Machka created a thread special for those who do not complete all centuries. Well, sorry. I will try to continue from here.

lonesomesteve

My May century is done. Did the SIR 400k in 19:32. Okay, more than a century but who's counting?

For the year, I've done 7 rides of 100 miles or more, at least one each month, one on fixed gear, one on my single speed and the rest with gears.

snaproll

May is in the books. 102.1 miles, 5:55:40 - 17.22 mph. Great weather, great ride.

PAlt

Assault on Mt Mitchell - May 18th
103.2mi
11,203Ft climbing
7:10:14 ride time
6:48:32 saddle time

lonesomesteve

Wow, impressive ride! The 400k I did last weekend had a similar amount of climbing, but in 2 1/2 times the distance. Nice work.

chipg5

May done, 5/19, on fully loaded Jamis Aurora touring bike, front and back panniers, a trial run for a couple tours I'm doing this summer. Slowest century ever for me...

107.01 miles
08:23:52
12.74 mph avg
3,890 ft climbing

Ithaca - Whitney Point - Chenango Forks - Binghamton - Owego - Ithaca

JimF22003

Mountains of Misery yesterday. 102 miles, the last three of which finished with an 11.9% average grade. 7:52 course time, 7:12 ride time.

Shifty

May century done 5-29-09. East out of Eugene to Pleasant Hill, Jasper, to Fall Creek. Followed Fall Creek into the national Forest for 50 miles in the most beautiful rain forest you can imagine.

BlueJay66

Whew!! May is in the books. I get very busy with other things on the weekends in May being a track and field official. This century ride was ok, but full of small annoyances. I started out in light rain, but was well prepared with wool leg warmers and lycra arm warmers. A decent reflective jacket kept the wet at bay as well. I started out going in to the wind, but that shifted to a cross wind which was ok, just not what I had expected. I made it to my goal on what I thought would be an out and back, but it was only 45 miles to my goal so I needed a extra 10 miles. I thought I had made it up, but I tricked myself into thinking that I had only 11 miles to go when the odometer was reading 79 miles. (That darn math!) (Either that or my blood sugar was getting low!!) I was able to put in the required miles, but it meant going into the headwind, and then when I turned and expected the tailwind that was when the wind finally decided to shift as well!! Ah well!! Fun to have the first 5 done. After June we will all be half way to the goal!! Congratulations to everyone that has made it so far. Keep up the fun times!!

Stats if you are interested. https://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/8350887

BlueJay66
Jamis Eclipse 2005

yeamac 

June 5 - halfway there!

124.7 miles
17.3 mph average speed
7:12:54 moving time
8:29:29 total time

Went to Quintana Beach, Texas again today. My usual long ride. Absolutely gorgeous day.

Temps started in the upper 60's, made it to low 80's by the time I got home. Nice N wind brought dryer air than we are used to.

10 Wheels

Nice pic.
How did you get the water to look blue?

yeamac 

Ha-ha. Only a native would notice. The water looked much bluer today that normal, although I did use Photoshop Elements' Auto Smart Fix feature on that photo, which adjusts color/contrast/etc, and I thought it looked more true to life. I took the photo with an iPhone and most of my photos were pretty dark because of the angle of the sun (it was only 9 AM, and I was shooting into the sun).

Below is another photo I took, plus the original of the photo above. Neither have any color correction. Notice how dark my bike looks in the second photo. It was really a nice day today at the beach.

10 Wheels

Good pics.
I might move there if the water will stay that Blue.

Jasper Storm

June completed, 6/6.

Did the Wenatchee, WA Apple Century. Had to ride a ways past the official turnaround and finish to avoid having to "round up" to get 100 miles.

100.2 miles
17.2 mph avg
5:51 rolling time
6:02 total time
155 cal/hr
16 oz H20/hr (not enough-food stops were gone on return leg)

JimF22003

Saturday I did 101 miles on the Blue Ridge Parkway from Mile 0 to 45, then down into Buena Vista and back. 9700 ft of climbing.

Sunday I added 81 more by continuing from MP 45 to Peaks of Otter and back. 7300 ft.