Quote Originally Posted by aka_kim
Dude, ya gotta eat! . . .

Good job on the ride. The Pilot says that the key to finishing DMD is believing that you can and will finish it. So you've just got to believe.
Isn't it "Studette?" And, I agree. I'd be taking one of everything I could think of in the big 'ol bag of yours and see what tempts you. I like Nanci's or Maillotpois' (somebody's) list of what she did eat. Also, do the temperatures make a difference? I really change what I like to eat winter to summer. Someone somewhere was talking about chocolate milk. I usually can only eat chocolate during cold weather rides and milk rarely sounds good to me, but chocolate milk on a 200 mile ride might be wonderful. Just stocked up on Trader Joes's dark choc coffee beans. It will be significantly warmer then than now.

Remember how much energy there is to be absorbed from the other riders. Use that to bolster your belief that you can do this. I know all of us think you can.

Between you and Nanci and Jo and Snap and everyone else's reports of this weekend's rides, I'm exhausted but cheering everyone on. Somebody has to do those rides. Hills, haven't seen those in a while. Must try again.