I Am An Idiot - Did 60 Miles On Saturday - But No Metric Century
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I'm glad it's not just me who rounds up to 5 miles. I have a 1 mile, and 2 mile loop in my neighborhood that I use at the very end of all rides to round up. 1,2,3,4 miles, what ever it takes, combinations of those loops have me covered. And they also give me about 75' of climbing per mile, so I use those loops to also round up my total ascent to the nearest 500'. What's more fun than chasing numbers?
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I was so fried at then end of my ride this past weekend (50+ miles on 2 water bottles in 90° heat that felt like 103°) that I stopped at 54.2 miles and omitted the lap around the block (.85 miles) that would have gotten me there. Oh well.
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I set out to do a solo century a few weeks ago. Pulled into my driveway and my Garmin read 100.0 miles so I hit the stop button. When I uploaded the data, the actual distance came out to be 99.996 miles, so I was 20 feet short.
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You did ride a "Metric" and you aren't an idiot for stopping at 60 miles. It's an arbitrary number with little or no difference in the achievement, and you're experienced enough to not be bothered if anyone demeans it as "2 miles short".
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I did a fifty mile ride with my daughter and on the home stretch I realized we still needed to do the little side trip in Red Hook, Brooklyn to make a full 50. She didn't seem to care I was adding some distance and we came in at 51.2 miles at the end. We'd have been a hair short without the little detour.
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I did a fifty mile ride with my daughter and on the home stretch I realized we still needed to do the little side trip in Red Hook, Brooklyn to make a full 50. She didn't seem to care I was adding some distance and we came in at 51.2 miles at the end. We'd have been a hair short without the little detour.
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