[jyl]

I've signed up to ride the Seattle To Portland group ride in July. It is a supported ride of 205 miles over two days, or one day if you're a stud. I tentatively plan on doing a longer leg on Saturday, like 130 miles, leaving a shorter leg for Sunday.

Naturally, I have never ridden a century or even a metric century before. So I know I need to start training up to be able to pretty easily pedal, eat, and drink for training rides of X miles at Y mph average.

Here's the question - what's X and what's Y?

You guys who have done centuries, what was the longest ride you'd worked up to before the day itself, and what speed did you average?

(Now you know why I was asking about the solar iPhone charger.)

BTW if any Pelicans are doing this, let me know. We could have Flying Pelican jerseys made and everything.