Oh No, Not Again! – The Super Century Part Deuce
Well, for those of you living in a cave, I’d like to make you aware of a little football game going down this Sunday. We call it the Super Bowl. And with the Super Bowl, comes Super Bowl parties which means way too much food and drink, which also means one of our worst ideas of all time is about to happen again.
There is something you can do as a preemptive strike on all of those calories. And to all of you out there who say, “Just don’t eat any junk food or put anything into the holy temple that is your body,” I say SHUT YO’ MOUTH! That’s just ridiculous. I’m going to eat and drink whatever I want on Super Bowl Sunday, and no one is going to make me feel guilty about it. After all, it’s what we do most of the time that matters, and most of the time I eat a healthy diet. Sunday will not be one of those days, though.
Team Virtus is once again here to “help.” It’s called the Super Century, and it is a really stupid and terribly awful idea – a virtual group trainer ride of at least 62 miles (a metric century). Yes, I said it’s a TRAINER RIDE of 62 MILES OR MORE… INDOORS! Want to know how it all came about last year? Then check this out.
Last year, the first annual Super Century was a taint-smashing success. Not only did we have riders from all over the country, but we had some lunatics doing some crazy things instead of the trainer ride so we could all suffer together thousands of miles apart (check it out). So don’t be shy. If you want to join us, just leave us a comment below.
There aren’t any real rules. Just hop on a trainer (borrow one if you must), and pedal for 100 kilometers. You can even ride outside if you want to. Or you can try to come up with an equally stupid challenge. No idiot will be turned away.
Be sure to check us out on Facebook and Twitter for updates, photos, smack-talk, and other tomfoolery. Last year we even had “#supercentury” trending in the St. Louis area last year. So if you are stupid awesome and brave enough to join us in this horrible “group” ride, be sure to use the #supercentury hashtag so we can see it. I’ve also set up a challenge on Daily Mile which you can find right here.
I’ll be starting at 6:00 AM Central Time again this year since I have to work at 11:30. If you want to be able to “chat” with us via facebook and twitter, you should be riding sometime between 6:00 AM and 10:30 AM CDT. I hope to be done in 4 hours or so, but we’ll see.
So… Seriously, it was one of the worst things I did last year, yet it was one of the best things I did last year (Here is my terrible blog post about it). It’s hard to describe just how terrible and awesome it really was, so you should just join us and find out for yourself. Yes, YOU! And if you’re preparing for the Dirty Kanza, the OGRE or Cedar Cross, then you should DEFINITELY join us since it will not only train your legs and taint, it will train your mind!
Leave us a comment if you want to join us, if you have questions, and especially if you have any movie recommendations to help me block out the pain in my ass.
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Posted on January 30, 2013, in Dirty Kanza 200 Training, Epicnicity---yeah it's a word, Group Rides, Nonsense and Tomfoolery, Training and tagged Super Century, Trainer Ride, Training for Dirty Kanza 200, Virtual Group Ride. Bookmark the permalink. 11 Comments.
I’m in…unfortunately. 🙂
Just typing up this blog post made me remember how awful/awesome it was last year (mostly awful). I almost didn’t hit “Publish.”
This Sucks!
You guys must not have seen the forecast for Sunday. You’d have to be nucking futs to ride indoors instead of heading outside to ride.
But there’s no tv outside. What would we look at?
I am in. I have to hit up Red Box and grab a couple of movies to watch while I pedal.
If only I had a copy of Race Across the Sky.
If only you borrowed it from one of your teammates. Surely, somebody near you has a copy they could lone you for Sunday. What is everybody watching during their ride? I’d video my ride but I sent my GoPro home with Luke to download the movies from Ray’s.
How awesome was Ray’s. I am so glad we went and cannot wait to go back. We should meet there Sunday for our Super Century ride…who’s in? (I am serious.)
My teammates live 2.5 hours (or more) from me. Too bad I didn’t think of it before this past weekend, huh?
That was my thought process.
Do you notice we have a lot fewer willing participants this year? was it really that bad last year? Or did we do a poor job promoting it this year?
You may not have as many entrants, but some seem to be really fired up about it. At least one guy on Daily Mile has already completed Sunday’s Super Century. I’m doing mine tomorrow, except outdoors. Luke, to answer your earlier question I’ll have my bike setup like thisfor movie watching.