My plan today was to do the Goat ride in Brown County to test my hill climbing abilities:The Goat ride The local Shelbyville bike group Shelbyvelo worked on organizing this ride. This is their second year for the ride, I like the concept that you get tokens for each ride you complete then you can show off all your tokens to show how many of the rides you actually did. If you do all four rides (over 116 miles of very hilly rides) you get your name listed on next years shirt created for the ride.
But I ended up accidentally sleeping in so I scratched that.
Plan 2: ride with Greensburg group.
Instead I tried to hook up with the local Greensburg group that sometimes meet at 8:00 on Saturday mornings. I rode around town a bit waiting for anyone to show at the high school. It was a no show, perhaps they were doing the Goat ride.
Plan 3: do a solo century.
I ended up riding the loop from Greensburg, Versailles, North Vernon then back to Greensburg. This loop is about 20 miles short of a century so I had to add some miles around Greensburg to complete the 100 miles.
I decided to take it slow since this is a longer distance ride and for some reason I seem to have some type of mental issue with riding a century (my wife says I have a lot of mental issues). Not sure how to explain it, but destinations that are over 40 plus miles away seem unattainable for a round trip, even though I shouldn't have any problems with such a trip. I mean if I can ride 60 miles non-stop riding as hard as I can, what is the issue with riding 100 easy miles? So I have decided to ride some solo centuries to overcome this fear of centuries.
It started off very sunny with very low chance of rain. Around Napoleon and Osgood it became very foggy, so much so that I had to take off my glasses and even the Garmin GPS had moisture on its screen that had to be wiped off to be read. Visibility was very low so I turned on all my lights.
I made four stops including stopping at my Moms to visit her for a few minutes. Unfortunately the highway between North Vernon and highway 46 was recently chipped and sealed. making it a very rough ride, I only rode it for a couple of miles. A bridge was also being replaced and had to be detoured around.
It was an excellent ride and I felt great afterwards. perhaps I'll try another one tomorrow.
I have also set some new goals:
2x centuries over two consecutive days
100K under 3 hours (62.14 miles)
It'll probably be a while before I try these goals, but they are there when I'm ready.
Stats of the ride:
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