1000K brevet starts this Friday!

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Congratulations Susan! What an amazing feat. <I hope you get a good, long, massage!> I cannot even imagine doing that.

Salsa: do you also do rides like that?

What affects the inside of the mouth? I just don't know anything about this. Yikes.

[salsabike]

I don't. Randonneuring is Chris' thing; triathlon is mine (motto: "home by teatime" ).

[Crankin]

Congratulations!!!!
And I complained about my 50 mile ride yesterday .

[MM_QFC!]

Thanks for sending us the updates, Salsabike!
and, what in the world could he have been thinking? that he was going to drive home from Tumwater after he finished????

Fun to hang out with you a bit yesterday...only the slightest bit o' guilt that we were hanging out relaxing, chatting and eating yummy Mick Jagger fries while they were working SO hard.

Congrats to Chris too!

I'm thinking they're all positively unconscious in their respective hotel rooms right now, unless Jeff was there to take her home where she could be unconscious. Chris almost didn't get himself a hotel room for last night, until, when he mentioned it about a week ago, and I gave him the MASSIVE evil eye and said, "GET.......THAT......ROOM."

[MM_QFC!]

Congratulations, Susan; you do us proud!
Also, thanks to Salsa's sweet, strong and steady Chris and his buddy for their teamwork and support; job well done, riders - rest well!

Very briefly: I can not impress upon all of you how much your faith in me and your encouraging messages along the way made this possible. "Thank you" is a wholly insufficient phrase, but in my current condition, it's the best I can manage.

I am thoroughly wrecked at the moment. I actually hurt too much to sleep. That's how much I hurt. And while I'm hungry enough to eay just about anything, I've eaten so much food in the past 3 days that the inside of my mouth is destroyed. (I've heard pbp riders talk about this.) I need to go find the earth's biggest smoothie and then buy two.

I promise a ride report, but I just have to say that without Chris (Salsa's husband) and Steve (his riding buddy) I absolutely positively would be writing about my DNF instead of my success.

[MrSalsa]

Here is the GPS track from the 1000k that Susan completed this morning with me and my friend Steve Davis. It was a very challenging ride. Thanks for your interest and support along the way.

[Tri Girl]

How many loops did you have to do? Or did you do just one of that loop? That's the Olympic Peninsula, correct? Looks tough!

[colby]

Salsa, thanks for all the updates. MrSalsa, way to be awesome!

Susan.... you rock!!

[MrSalsa]

How many loops did you have to do? Or did you do just one of that loop? That's the Olympic Peninsula, correct? Looks tough!

One figure eight that started west from Olympia around the Olympic Peninsula clockwise. I had 26000 feet and 630 miles on the GPS. I would say it was the toughest ride I've done yet.

[salsabike]

Fun to hang out with you a bit yesterday...only the slightest bit o' guilt that we were hanging out relaxing, chatting and eating yummy Mick Jagger fries while they were working SO hard.

Congrats to Chris too!

I too think their achievement is truly fabulous and absolutely admirable.

For the record, though, I felt completely guilt-free while hanging out with you, bmccasland, and NbyNW, eating those Mick Jagger fries yesterday. Not an iota of guilt. Not a nanoblip...fill in the blank.


P.S. The Olympic Peninsula loop was 600k, the loop of the 8 to the east into the Cascade foothills was 400k.

[Tri Girl]

Simply impressive!!
I have the Adventure Cycling map of the Olympic Peninsula (having thought about doing that one day) and the size of that loop is just enormous. WOW!

So proud of all of you- incredibly impressive!!!

[Susan126]

Congratulations Susan! What an accomplishment! I can't wait to read your ride report!

[yellow]

Congratulations! Unfathomable to me. You are bada$$ like a honey badger!! (and I mean that in a good way )

[Susan Otcenas]

Congratulations! Unfathomable to me. You are bada$$ like a honey badger!! (and I mean that in a good way )

My friend Angela sent me a text during the event that said "You are strong like lion!" Totally made me laugh out loud!

[Susan Otcenas]

I'd be curious to know how much weight you lost on this ride, if you weighed in. I know that I can easily lose 2 lbs (fluid, mostly) on a long weekend ride, but I'm talking 40-50 miles. Simply can't imagine doing over 600!

Two pounds is a QUART of water. That is a lot for someone as small as you. You might considering aiming to drink more if you can.

No such thing as losing weight on a ride like this. If I do, I'm doing something very very wrong. Maintaining hydration levels is absolutely critical to success. I did a 24 hour race last year in very hot weather. My crew person brought along a scale and weighed me every couple of hours to make sure I wasn't losing any weight. I had to drink a FULL bottle every single hour to stay on top of my weight. I drank less this ride because it wasn't hot, so I didn't sweat nearly as much. The frequency with which I was urinating let me know that I was getting enough fluid.

As for this weekend: I weighed myself the morning before the event. I weighed myself again this morning. I am UP 6.5 pounds. That has been the typical pattern for me after all of my long brevets. 6-8 pounds of fluid retention. In 2-3 days I'll start peeing like a racehorse and all that extra water weight will disappear in a day.