Erik D. Jones’s Blog

Ride: Sea Otter Classic Road Tour
Cat: Unrestricted/Unlicensed
Field size: 250+ (20, 40, 100 mile options), 90+ (100 mile option only)

I was feeling pretty jazzed about my first official century ride. I pulled up to about 100 yards shy of the starting line on the Laguna Seca raceway about 15 minutes before the soft-start. It took about +4 minutes for them to announce the start and we started rolling at 07:04. Around the first turn, I pulled up towards the front but stayed back to see how the other riders were going to behave.

For the month of March I rode a total of 482.0 miles during the month of March, averaging 96.4 miles per week (well below where I want to be). There is an explanation, however–the first two weekends in March were spent in San Francisco where I didn’t have a bike (this has since been corrected).

On February 8th, 2006 I made a commitment to myself. I decided that it was time for a life changing event. Now one may think that most of the time, these so-called “life changing events” can only occur in the wild…But I’m here to tell you that they can be self-made. So let me explain…