Sweet corn challenge 2008

Catching up: last Sunday I bicycled 100 miles, my first century, at this year's Sweet Corn ride. I've done the 50-mile version of the ride each of the previous two years. The weather was beautiful: sunny and medium-warm, perfect for a thin bike jersey and noticeable perspiration only on long uphills. I started to get tired at about the 80-mile mark, by 95 miles was checking my watch every mile (are we there yet?) and between 100 and 106 miles (make up distance -- I took a couple of wrong turns) even more often. I rode with a few different folks; I knew perhaps a dozen folks riding that route this year, and I met and rode with more along the way.

On to the facts and figures:
6:30 moving time; 15.6 mph (yup, I'm that slow)
1:10 rest time (yup, the food was that good)
6100' uphill (and 6100' downhill, I suppose)

The route didn't seem this convoluted while riding:
But, the correlation between elevation change and speed is sensible. The speed data are smoothed: I actually saw real-time speed (from my rear-wheel sensor) >45mph on two occasions, making this ride both a speed and distance PR.