Quote Originally Posted by Wasp View Post
What a great sense of achievment you must of felt! Congratulations!

Lmao.....I was thinking sounds about right to me, start ride at 3pm end at 9:15pm. (i'm not much of a morning type of gal) Tell me you did not start at 3am????
I have a half century coming up next month, and my bottom lip quibbles every time I think of it! And that's just half of what you did!
LOL. No, 3pm to 9pm, though on weekends I get up absurdly early to ride, but that's usually 5am or so.

As for water, I took one bottle of plain water and one bottle of Nuun. I divided it up as to where I thought I'd be able to get water. So 10 miles to water stop one, 28 miles from water stop one down to the appropriate mile marker and back up to water stop 2 (which was where I ran into trouble), then 14 miles from water stop two to water stop 3 (same as stop 1). So I refilled at stop one like normal (only refilled the water bottle), with the plan to top off the water bottle and replenish the Nuun at stop two. Except for the little problem I mentioned. By the time I got to stop two, I was out of Nuun and down to about a third of a bottle of water.
Luckily, I found a vending machine between stop 2 and stop 3, and for a change I had cash on me. $1.50 for a 20-oz bottle of water is highway robbery, but it was cold and wet and that was what mattered. I used that to mix up some more Nuun, then refilled the water bottle at stop 3. I probably could have made it back to stop 3 without refilling, but I didn't want to risk it.