finished with 401 miles
and taking a break in my tent
Okay, if any of you talked to me during the 10 day I said I was going to retire from multi-days. I lied. This is really what’s going on.
I’ve been looking into Race Across America and ultracycling as a new challenge. Growing up my dad was friends with a guy who finished RAAM in the 80’s. I remember being about 11 or 12 yrs old hearing the stories about the trip. He ate almost all meat and hallucinated from exhaustion on the bike. I also remember how horrified I was that while I was visiting he let his dog lick his ice cream bowl. I guess I was always a bit of a germophobe.
Madge did the AIDS ride a couple years ago before she got enormous, so maybe I can convince her to start riding again.
So I took photos of myself every 20 miles during the race, so as soon as I organize those and upload them to flickr, I’ll put them up here. I’m eating in at least half of them.
Here’s a preview:
The past two years I completed the self-transcendence six day race. This year I’m going to do the ten day race. It starts on Wednesday.
They are putting up camp now, here’s a photo:
photo by Utpal
The grassy area in that photo will soon be covered in tents.
I packed all my supplies and shoes. I need to get clothes together. It always seems like the ten day gets rain before the 6 day starts, so I bought a waterproof/windproof running jacket and I’m bringing an umbrella. I was surprised that I only had 6 pairs of running shoes, I thought I had a million. I did buy a new pair of adidas megabounce because I usually wear Brooks and I notice they don’t have a lot of support in the toe area. Usually that doesn’t matter, but once I’m doing the ultra shuffle, the balls of my feet hurt.
3/26
My last meeting with Eric was today. Aww. He’s moving to Portland.
Looking up my nose.
