Road Cycling“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway
I'd say yes, but never tell this story again. Maybe you'll forget it happened and then look fondly back on your first metric century and not remember the asterisk (because there isn't one).