Basically I failed today. But I am still proud of the effort I put in!

I wanted to do my first century so badly. Boy did I pick the wrong day to try it! It was so windy and so cloudy and just at the temperature where warmers would overheat me and not wearing them meant I was a bit chilly.

I also picked a very tough route. The first 50 miles was 4000 ft of climbing and 4000 ft of descending. It was a very exciting new route though and I am definately getting better at climbing.

The second 50 would be a little more flat but with some steep but short ascents.

I stopped at mile 44 for a quick sandwich and to refill.

At mile 60 my knees started hurting.

Mile 65 my right calf was about to charlie horse which meant I had to stay in the saddle during every climb. I hate that, much more comfy out of the saddle.

By mile 78 I was coming back in to town to start another loop and decided to call it quits. I had been out for 5 hours and I was barely keeping 15 mph.

Hit 80.xx by the time I made it home. Put all my data into TheDailyPlate and my log and now TDP is saying I can eat roughly 6.5k calories because I burned ~4000 on the ride. hahahahah. not going to happen.