Yesterday - cycled my furtherest distance of all time = 170.5km @ Heart of the Valley Century ride an annual event put on by the town of Middleton, Nova Scotia located in the heart beautiful Annapolis Valley. Not a race - had various distances 25k, 50k, 100k and 160k.

 So why did I do 170.5? Someone turned a sign that had several of us go down the wrong road for several kms but not too far fortunately. When I was all done I had 168.5 km which meant I had to cycle around the block to make it a nice round number. Al Pottier (HTC gear guy with best Ironman story) and I commited to do it together.

 Nice 29k/hr average pace and we stopped at every food/water station every 25k or so. Very humid overcast - we expect rain or thunderstorms but only a sprinkling midway then a downpour on the final "hilliest" leg ... refreshing! though made it hard to see when rainwater mixed with salt from our sweat stung our eyes. We had to stop a few times to wipe our eyes.

Great sense of accomplishment. Feel tired today but physically no worse for the wear - yay!