snorri said:
I managed 100 with four laden panniers and bar bag etc. getting home on the on the last day of a tour.
I'll never be as fit again.
I was thinking along those lines myself, harking back to my longest ride and despairing about how much fitness I've lost, but then I realised that I built up that fitness in less than a year and it was only 3.5 years ago so there isn't any reason why I couldn't do it again if I made the effort to get enough long rides in.
Watching the first part of Mark Beaumont's Americas trip made me realise that I want to do more long rides. The trouble is the damn UK weather! I'm naturally a bit of a fair weather cyclist and don't usually do much when it is gloomy, chilly and wet!