Stop posting and go ride a mile…
me, I’ll let ya round up a mile. I don’t see how you measured, but rather than a “slippery slope” I’ll take a statistical approach and say I can’t reject a null hypothesis of you actually riding 100 miles if you recorded 99.3.
Similarly, on last weekend’s century ride, a friend’s GPS showed about the same distance that you recorded when in fact the course was 103 miles. He went and rode the extra portion of a mile before he found out!
I think I posted here a second time when I did my second 100+ mile ride (last November) so I guess it’s worth mentioning that I did my third 100+ mile ride on 16 May!
Good job joshben!
Nice one, was it another organised ride? 3 centuries is some going, I’ll be happy if I ever complete one!
Yes, another organized ride. Our second riding of Reach the Beach, and we rustled up a couple more riders to join us! I should remind them to add their names to the list.
vid
The other 3000 bikers on this ride barely seemed to bat an eye at four guys on 36"er unicycles, their freak flags flying at full salute . . . seems strange to note that distance unicycling seems to be almost normal here in Portland now.
There is this goofy bit about the ride too:
Brycer1968
Made my first Century last weekend!
I completed a 117 mile ride from Baton Rouge to New Orleans this last weekend. I got written up in the LSU newspaper:
Before
http://www.lsureveille.com/news/student-to-ride-unicycle-to-n-o-1.1866126
After
http://www.lsureveille.com/news/unicyclist-finishes-117-mile-ride-to-new-orleans-1.1868532
Most of the people who talked to me along the way laughed at the idea that I would make it. But I did 
Congratulations! And nice article!
Did you take a detour or did the article shed 12 miles off of your planned distance? 
You should copy the list from several posts up, paste it in your response, and add your name at the bottom. If it’s not on the list, it didn’t happen. 
I had planned it to be 111 miles, but when I first talked to the people at the paper, I said 105, and they never bothered to correct it. I wound up missing a couple of turns and taking a couple of detours to get the extra 6 miles in there (mostly once I was in New Orleans).
Ok, I’m on the list now!
The updated list:
Peter Bier
David Stone
Roger Davies
Alan Chambers
Steve Colligan
Mark Wiggins
Takayuki Koike (record holder 6hrs44min)
Lars Clausen
Ken Looi
Floyd Beattie
Johnnie Severin
Cathy Fox
Bruce Dawson
Jack Hughes
Dan Heaton
Scot Cooper
Sam Wakeling
Chuck Edwall
Joe Marshall
John Himsworth
Gracie Sorbello
Rowan Chivers
Tony Melton
Tim Lee
Joe Lind
Rob Muellerleile
Irene Genelin
Beau Hoover
Nathan Hoover
Mike Scalisi
Ryan Woessner
?~Xivind Johansen
Kjetil Juul Pedersen
James Amon
Leif Rustvold
Max Taint
Mark Osmundo
Mike Tierney
Joseph Sherman
Roland Kays
Claude Magnuson
Jan Logemann
Zeke Boisei
Paul Stacey
Matthew Huber
ummm, I haven’t rode 100 miles in one day, but like Sam Wakeling, I rode Lands End to John O Groats, averaging 80 miles per day for 12 days… Does this count?
That sure counts as one awesome ride, but unless one of the days was 100 miles or more, it doesn’t count for “Who has completed a 100 mile ride?” This is assumed to be in one day.
—Nathan
Finally bagged it today, .95 years ahead of schedule.
My major respect to anyone that’s done the 100:10:1. I started the day with that as a “sub-goal”, and was on pace through Mile 50, but I’m just not fast enough to stay ahead of the curve. My fastest 10 miles was 50 minutes, and with quick food and camel-refill breaks, I was basically staying 5 minutes ahead per hour. But I couldn’t sustain, and needed me my rest stops.
I was honored to have another Centurion, Bruce Dawson, join me for part of the ride. As always, he was blazing, and my son got a picture of him tripping the local radar sign at 17mph.
Stats:
100.21 miles, 11 hours 59 minutes, 5,382" vertical gain
Ungeared Hunter 36", w/ 110 cranks for all but 15 miles on 130s.
Actual pedaling time was 8 hours 56 minutes, 11.4 mph riding average.
Since no one else has challenged the Nathan/Aspenmike claim for oldest to Century, I will. 48 today, 49 tomorrow. Something tells me I’ll be feeling my years.
The updated list:
Peter Bier
David Stone
Roger Davies
Alan Chambers
Steve Colligan
Mark Wiggins
Takayuki Koike (record holder 6hrs44min)
Lars Clausen
Ken Looi
Floyd Beattie
Johnnie Severin
Cathy Fox
Bruce Dawson
Jack Hughes
Dan Heaton
Scot Cooper
Sam Wakeling
Chuck Edwall
Joe Marshall
John Himsworth
Gracie Sorbello
Rowan Chivers
Tony Melton
Tim Lee
Joe Lind
Rob Muellerleile
Irene Genelin
Beau Hoover
Nathan Hoover
Mike Scalisi
Ryan Woessner
?~Xivind Johansen
Kjetil Juul Pedersen
James Amon
Leif Rustvold
Max Taint
Mark Osmundo
Mike Tierney
Joseph Sherman
Roland Kays
Claude Magnuson
Jan Logemann
Zeke Boisei
Paul Stacey
Matthew Huber
Tom Blackwood
Congrats Tom - that’s excellent!
Woot! You’re a more disciplined rider than me. 
What was the route?
You did it Tom!!! Congratulations on a great ride. I believe you are the oldest on the list.
Good work Tom.
My name will be there within the next 100 years. Hopefully I’ll be there at least 95 years ahead of schedule too
STM
You are older than I was at the time by about 10 1/2 months. Of course I might do it again sometime…might wait a few years to make it harder for you guys too.
Lets have a record for the oldest fart to complete a 100 mile ride, since none of us will ever beat the speed record I’m down for that. So; as it stands now, as far as we know, it is 48 yrs & 364 days! How old can it go? Since Tom’s ride had over 5,000’ vert, lets say that it has to have 5,000 up and 5,000 down as well as 100 miles ridden. What do you think???
I know there are plenty of us old farts around that can do it!
I also think it needs to be ungeared for the record, or add half again as many miles to compensate for the gearing. Crank lengths are personal choice.
Tom, was your ride a loop? i.e. did you descend the same vert as climbed?
Great - that gives me just over 5 years to train;)
Sorry Mike, I’m out if it has to be ungeared. Once you go geared you never go back. Although my 100 back in 2007 was ungeared.
—Nathan