Double centuries and such

Well, it seems double-century bike rides are a little hard to find.

Why?  Is it because it’s so unfathomably insane to even consider it?  It’s so astonishingly foolish to embark on one of these that people just simply don’t bother?

No.

It’s because they seem to be measured in metric units.

There are centuries (100 miles), metric centuries (67 miles), double centuries (200k, or roughly 125 miles), and then there’s the 300k ride (roughly 187 miles).  No, 187 miles is not 200 miles any more than 25k is “about 16 miles”.  16.8 miles is NOT 16 miles.  Period.  And 187 miles is NOT 200 miles.

So, I’m looking at the 400k rides (250 miles, for those of you who have busted calculators) and thankfully there are crazies in Houston, Dallas, AND Austin who do these things.  There’s even a group of people who do the MS150—both directions.  That’s right, Houston to Austin and back.

Pure lunacy.

 

This thing is looking more and more realistic by the hour.