Things started going bad during my 9 hour solo effort at Marysville at the 5 hour mark. by hour 6 I started questioning my existence and I swore I would never do an endurance race again.
I was trying to go back to an all liquid nutrion plan, and it wasn't working...but i didn't quite realize it until it was too late.
After things went bad I rolled into the pit and sat down in the chair. I didn't think I was going to get back up. I grabbed a sandwich from my cooler and a coke feeling sory for myself. I saw a former teamate that i dropped hours ago roll by and It just pissed me off that I was going to quit so I got back on the bike feeling like ass. I dumped the bottles on my bike and filled them with water and shoved some pumpernickel pretzels in my pocket.
I rolled out and by the end of the lap, i was coming back to life. I was able to get back into position catching the folks that rolled by me during my break down.
The course was wicked cool, lots of steep ups and downs, and logs everywhere.
I was able to maintain a top ten finish out of 30 somthing.
Really though, the best part was camping and throwing down some beers with everyone.
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That is a fun course. I can't do the all liquid diet thing either. Gels, drinks, candy bars, sammies, what ever it takes. Way to keep going.
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