Lotoja is intended to be hard. Riding 205 miles during daylight hours isn’t really meant to be easy. Add weather (rain, hail, sleet, snow) and life probably isn’t going to be much fun.
Unless you want it to be fun. Most, if not all, of fun is in the attitude.
My training ride yesterday started under darkening skies and my route took me out toward the clouds and into the wind.
Rain started about 2/3 of the way through it and was falling heavily on the home stretch.
I’m sure people in cars thought I was crazy. But I had fun.
I just had to start and set my expectations for fun.