I'm not Eric, but I'll chime in here a bit as I'm playing with the distances and what I've learned from running a few ultra marathon distances is perhaps informative.
-- having a solid base of short rides is an excellent base, and some folks can pop up from such a base to a much longer distance having never done them before; however, most folks need to build endurance more, especially if they desire to enjoy the experience rather than simply "no pain no gain" it. -- Try a 100k and see how you do. That's double your daily commute. If that goes well, try a century. I've done runs and rides where I felt great for x miles, then fell apart for the last x miles. Until you figure out where that breakdown point is for you you don't really know what you are working with. -- Most important, enjoy. Have fun. After all, that is hopefully why you are out there. But it can be easy (at least for me) to get sucked into the competitive side and that's when I stop enjoying it but don't notice because I'm obsessively focused on the numbers. That's why I don't track time, distance, speed, etc. save for the basics of rudimentary navigation. With abandon, Patrick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
