Did my first century this weekend
Did my first century this weekend
Author
Discussion

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

83 months

Wednesday 3rd April 2013
quotequote all
Just wanted to share. That is all biggrin

http://app.strava.com/activities/46887679

HurryUpAndWait

1,003 posts

232 months

Wednesday 3rd April 2013
quotequote all
We'd all be doing centuries in California! wink

Seriously, well done - I had to abandon my effort at the weekend since it was a wee bit cold, and a wee bit windy here in SE England...

Johnny

9,652 posts

313 months

Thursday 4th April 2013
quotequote all
Good work thumbup

I won't mention the favourable conditionswink

BPC7

391 posts

266 months

Thursday 4th April 2013
quotequote all
HurryUpAndWait said:
We'd all be doing centuries in California! wink

Seriously, well done - I had to abandon my effort at the weekend since it was a wee bit cold, and a wee bit windy here in SE England...
That's no excuse lol, I did one every day of the Easter weekend and I live in SE England too wink Proof for the disbelievers...

http://app.strava.com/activities/46318081

http://app.strava.com/activities/46465566

http://app.strava.com/activities/46627222

http://app.strava.com/activities/46793325

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

83 months

Thursday 4th April 2013
quotequote all
Thanks chaps, wasn't that favourable to be honest. The SF area at this time of year is a little weird, there was a lot of mist when we left the city in the morning which resulted in a layer of moisture over everything, which made the roads quite slippy, in fact I had a little 'off' after 15 miles when descending through a series of hairpins boxedin

Scraped my knee, thigh and elbow on the tarmac and made contact with the Armco which hurt a bit, but hey, Rule #5 prevails!

We got lucky as we moved North as the sun came out and burned off the cloud and mist and it was nice for most of the way, we got a couple of rain showers but it wasn't too bad. Certainly not as bad as the UK at the moment, so I concede that point.

Still, glad I ticket that box, and California was a great place to do it. I'll certainly be back, it's not too expensive from the East coast of the US where I reside, although taking your own bike gets expensive (I rented a Cannondale SuperSix from SF for this trip). Nice bike but wasn't quite set up exactly like my own, so I got a few aches and pains that were quite uncomfortable.

Interestingly, I noticed no difference whatsoever between my Aluminium CAAD9 and the Carbon SuperSix in terms of ride comfort or stiffness.