I hope that you're finally coming around back to life now. You still looked like you felt wiped out on Sunday morning. And you couldn't eat hardly anything at breakfast. Are you able to eat and drink normally yet? Feel like riding yet?
You ended up getting a lot more character building than you planned on during the end of Saturday's ride. That was my toughest DDC so far. My time is usually 13 hours, but it took me 15:10 this year, the increase mostly due to more and longer reststops. I usually skip every other reststop, but this year the only one that I skipped was the last one (where you and Karl happened to be).
I think I went through 25 waterbottles on this ride. Plus 6 PBJs, 4 3-Muskateers, 4 cokes, 1 Turkey sandwich, 3 bananas, and a large bag of frosted animal cookies. About 6600 calories total.
Hurry and get back to being Jennie again.
-Donny
This weekend was a complete blurr...except for the total exhaustion I'm still feeling today. I was so thankful for Karl driving me home yesterday as I was in no shape to be driving myself! Karl was incredible all weekend. I tried to get him to go ahead with the others at the Canon School stop (isn't that the one 35m from the finish?). But he wouldn't budge and was adamant about sticking it out with me. From that rest stop forward, I could only make it about 3-4 miles before I'd have to stop for a few minutes. I was having total shutdown and seizures in the legs. A sag vehicle stopped to check on us about 3 miles from the fire station but I told him to go on. At the fire station, I laid down on the cool floor and from that point, things basically got even worse. I couldn't get off the floor because of the cramps so Karl lifted me up. Once in the chair I was able to walk back into the firehouse and lay down on their couch. We were at the fire station for probably a couple of hours. Stomache started feeling queasy but fortunately I waited until I was back at the school before that little 'experience' hit. Thinking back on it, I should have seen the signs earlier: my feet were really hot/burning/sore before we even got to lunch. I wasn't peeing hardly at all. In fact, No activity between the top of Resurrection and Sunday morning! I think Resurrection is what was the real kicker for me. Wow.....what an experience!
I'm so glad everyone else finished and seemed to do OK. Congratulations for making it through that ride! A part of me feels that I still 'did' it even though I quit 7.6m from the finish (it will be hard to wear the t-shirt). I only hate the fact that I kept Karl from finishing. It was good to see everyone at breakfast (although staring at Pete's bacon and Mike's sausage almost made me puke again!). Wish I had been able to join in more of the conversation but I just wanted to make sure I wasn't gonna toss anything else! Got home and literally vegged all day. Karl stuck around and we watched 3 movies, drank water, and tried to eat all day. We went to Trader Joe's to grab dinner and that trip alone wiped me out.
Still weak today...feel like I'm recovering from a bad bout of the flu. I got on the scales this morning and I was 8lbs under my 'normal' weight. I'll bet it was 10+ Sunday morning....obviously mostly fluid loss. I'm on my second liter of water already this morning so I'm doing the right things! I've got to learn your secret for getting so much fluid in you on Saturday....25 water bottles! I'm surprised at the calorie count though...I actually expected it to be higher than 6600. I guess the water was the key factor, huh?
Jennie