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This spring I did some brevet rides to try to qualify for the Paris-Brest-Paris. I was doing the 400km ride, and I'd accidentally done an extra 40km by taking a wrong turn. I'd been cycling for about 19 hours, through the night, it was cold, wet, I was soaked through, my ass was so chaffed that it was raw, my right achilles tendon was giving me severe pain (turns out I had tendonitis) so I was only able to pedal properly with my left leg - with my right leg I could only really pull up. I couldn't get out of the saddle much because if I did it was too painful to sit back own again, and I realised that I had another 40km to go, and it was hilly. Those two hours were
horrible. :(