Originally Posted by
Calla lily
I spent the last 6 months training for a century with a local training group called couch2century. Well our century was supposed to be last Sunday, but Irma messed that all up (I'm in Florida) and it was canceled. So we got through all our training (78 miles was the longest ride) then got set back. So we are taking a couple more weeks to train and will try again. Today was my first ride in almost 2 weeks, 57 miles and also the climbiest ride so far for me.
I started riding in my late 30's on a Walmart hybrid. At 41, I got a better hybrid. My longest ride on that was 30 miles which was also my longest ride before I started training. I got a Salsa Vaya (gravel/light touring) about a year ago and planned on using that for the century (rode it up to the half point) until I found a deal on Craigslist on a 2016 Scott CR1 20 that I couldn't pass up.