My First 100-Miler

Six years ago, on Sep-29-2007, I rode my first ever 100-miler.
It was a modified version of the "Virginia Border Raid."
109-miles.
Solo.

31-miles farther than I had ever ridden previously.
That 78-mile ride was on Sep-22-2007, i.e., seven days earlier.
(I'd had company for the first 23-miles of that Sep-22nd ride.) 

Year	Month	Date	start / course	Miles	H.mm	mph
2007	Sep	22	PUE:  Shoofly Don't Bother Me	78.3	5.00	15.6
2007	Sep	28	BJP:  DocN-Kemp-Virgil	29.7	1.51	16.0
2007	Sep	29	PUE:  VA border ride  --  7h55 elapsed	109.0	7.01	15.5

 

One might think, that if I could ride 109-miles, solo, 7h01 in-motion, in 7h55 elapsed time,
That I ought to be able to ride 200k rando rides in 9 hours relatively frequently.

However, as best I can recall, I have only two 9-hour or less 200's.

316246

ACPB

200

2010/10/02

NC: Raleigh

route 227 (unnamed)

09:01

326879

ACPB

200

2011/04/02

NC: Raleigh

route 227 (unnamed)

08:31

[And clearly, one of the "9-hour" 200's, was a minute over 9-hours.]