I replied in the other thread but wanted to say go for it!

I did it last year with some friends in 12:41. This year, some of my teammates and I are doing it and hope to finish in less than 9 hours. I think we can do it if we get the pacelines going early. There's a few things I'm going to do different this year. I don't think we'll stop at the rest stops and hang out. I think we'll just have our sag vehicles meet us every so often to refuel. I'm more of the GU diet on the bike girl now, last year, I was more solid foods.

Water is vital. I had my camelbak plus two bottles. Camelback and one bottle were powerade, the other bottle was just water to dump on myself to cool me down. Our sag driver kept some smaller towels in the cooler and by the time we needed them, the ice had melted and we draped ice cold towels around our necks and backs when we stopped to cool our core down.

If I can be of any more help, let me know.

Jeni