So I ditched the 75 mile goal and got sucked up into doing the Fucking Hills Race with Andrew and Paul. I say "with", but really we all did it at our own pace, as Andrew busted it out in 1 hour and 46 minutes and I did it in around 4? with a 20 minute break around the 1/2 way point. So I did a total of 45 miles today with 33 of them being some serious hills, (see elevation profile below or Cascade's website. It was about equal to doing my hills route 5 times. I've only completed the hills route once, and I had to walk quite a bit. I did a bit of walking my bike on the super steep inclines on this too, but I felt REALLY good about what I did. It was a huge accomplishment for me. I learned a lot about my breathing and what stage of exhaustion it indicates for me. I am pretty exhausted. I was going to ride with Andrew back and forth to fit a stem to the mountain bike, but crapped out because I'm fading VERY fast. Kinda bummed I didn't get to bike geek with him some more, but it won't be the last time we get together :)
I'm happy with today's results, though. I've got about 1600 calories more to consume today with about 3-4 hours left in the day and I don't know if I'm going to make it. Eating more food at this point sounds icky. I'll post today's final tallies tomorrow morning.
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