Yesterday Vanessa and I participated in the Cy-Fair Lions Club Biking for Sight Century in Montgomery, TX. This ride was also a recommend ride for the 2008 BP MS150, so I worked as a ride marshal. This is a good ride on a challenging course. I rode the 102 mile route, and I can say that this is the hardest century I have done. I reached a point that the hills wore me out and so did the wind. I did not have any energy left to ride to fast, but I did not just bonk. I fell back to my training that I did over the summer, long slow rides. After the first 20-25 miles, I could not keep my pace much over 16 mph due to wind and hills, but I could keep plugging along.
We started the day and I rode with Jim Crocco, who I used to work with at HP and know him through NWCC. He had never done a century ride before, lots of 40-80 mile ride but never a century.
The route had us going through Richards, Anderson, Iola, Bedias, Shiro, Back to Richards, then on to Montgomery. The road from Bedias to Shiro was long, windy with lots of climbs into the wind. About mile 85, I was ready to be finished, but held on. I like the route, but I am not sure I will do the century out there again for a while.
