Since I seem to live my life with my head stuck under the sand 90% of the time, I shouldn't be suprirsed that the Reston [metric for me] Century ride is in 6 days. Crap, crappity, crap… I was kind of hoping that I had at least another week to build up my endurance a little more. Stupid August going by too fast… grumble grumble. The 60-70 miles/week commute that I've been putting in might not be enough, but then again my commuter bike weighs probably twice as much as my new(er) bike does. (Although if you ask any of the tri geeks I rode with a few weeks ago, my road bike may as well be made of cement compared to their $5k carbon fiber rockets.)

The other consideration is that a good chunk of the ride is on the W&OD, whose elevation from Reston looks something like this:
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Last year's route is below, not sure this year will be the same, but I think it'll be doable. If not, I can always be a wuss and do the 30 mile route.