I did very little "event" riding in 2009, but had a season of consistent century rides: One 100-mile ride in each weekend* of June, July, and August 2009. Most of these were my Sweet Home loop (which is starting to get a bit old), but there were a few variations, including the Covered Bridges century in Albany (the only "event" ride in those three months), at least one ride to the Roseburg area, leading a Gears ride over Wolf Creek and on to Cottage Grove, and pre-riding the bRamble route with Bob Zumwault. (I couldn't ride the bRamble as an event ride because I was driving sag.)
I capped off the series at the end of August by riding Aufderheide from Blue River to Westfir and back with Ian Fuller (116 miles), then broke the streak the next weekend by riding around Crater Lake (only 47 miles including the Pinnacles spur).
Overall it was a good summer ... but now I feel I've had enough of consistency, and next year I want to push more on the outer limits of my endurance. I want to do a 300k (186 mile) brevet for sure, and might consider 400k depending on conditions and schedule. The Davis Double would be great, but I might have to put it off yet one more year if the data conflicts with ICSE. (So far my only double century has been Seattle to Portland, a few years back.)
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*Defining "weekend" broadly to include a Friday or Monday of a three-day weekend.
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