# Longer Long Ride or Multiple Rides

**URL:** <https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/longer-long-ride-or-multiple-rides/92548>\
**Category:** Training\
**Created:** [April 12, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/longer-long-ride-or-multiple-rides/92548 "2024-04-12T01:16:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![kurt.braeckel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/kurt.braeckel/32/116719_2.png) [@kurt.braeckel](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/kurt.braeckel)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/longer-long-ride-or-multiple-rides/92548/42 "2024-04-15T13:58:14Z")

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> [@grwoolf](#):
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> but stopping for 5 hours (almost 1/3 of the total time).

Yeah that wasn’t part of the plan, and it was definitely the worst part of it, but a guy overheated, the pacing in the groups was uneven and we had some very slow riders with us and were trying to keep together for safety reasons (it was 100F on some parts of the ride). So the lunch stop was great and we really didn’t stop before that much at all, over 100 mi in… honestly there were some riders in the group who shouldn’t have done the ride in the first place. One guy is a pretty good crit racer, but his endurance is crap and he had no business riding it at all, let alone constantly trying to stay with the first group.

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