Century!!!!!!

102.77. For those of you who aren't up on your biking lingo a century is when you ride 100 mi. I started at natural bridges and ended in hanksville ut. This was not my original plan. My original intentions were to go 50 mi to lake Powell where there was a camp site and water. In true savage form(<--jbo) I crushed the 50 miles by 12. I wasn't  really digging the camp site and really didn't want to cook dinner so I said fuck it lets go for the century. So i decide to push on to hanksville. Disclaimer: the first fifty were mainly down hill and I had a light tail wind. It was in the mid 80 which is freaking hot when you're on blacktop all day and there is no shade. With all the flats iv been getting i've developed this thing where I always think I'm getting a flat. So all day I was checking my tires. With only 20 miles left till hanksville the I pretty much thought I had the century in the bag. I was just hoping I wouldn't get a flat. Then something much worse happened... my expletive expletive expletive chain snapped. Talk about a pain in the ass.I pretty much thought my day was over and I wasn't gonna get the century. I do have a chain tool and I was determined to finish. So I sat on the side of the rode and got to work. I had to take the busted link out and the reconnect the chain. Taking the link out was a breeze. Reconnecting
the chain was a different story. This can be a pain in the ass on a bike stand let alone in the heat on the side of the road. I ended up getting it but it took a while and by the end I looked like Bert from May Poppins (for those of you who didn't have a childhood I looked like a chimney sweep) I lost a lot of time but I ended up making it!! I was tied and really hungry. I got a tent site and then set up and took a much needed shower. I approached dinner with the tenacity that I did with my ride today. I ate one double cheeseburger one single cheese burger fries a drink and a milk shake. O and I almost forgot when I went to get on my bike to ride to dinner you guessed it flat tie. So I just walked and left it for the morning.