[OrRando] 400K ride report

[Susan France]

I was surprised to see you all downing those tacos in Independence. My
stomach has always behaved differently from the norm on long rides... I
cannot handle real food and tacos would probably send me into serious
distress.  I had some significant eating issues the last 100k of the 400k
preride. Nauseous the whole time and managed to force down a total of 500
calories based on my calculations. We sat in a Shari's in Salem and it took
me nearly 1 hour to eat 1/2 piece of toast. This was not "normal" for me to
have nutritional problems (maybe the heat, maybe the chips I purchased in
Harrisburg, maybe riding too hard in the heat during the day). But I just
kept remembering that I'd seen Del go hours without being to keep any food
in his stomach on his second 508.  I had more trouble on the last 100k of
the preride than I had in all of RAAM 15 years ago.

But I did get beyond my 300k curse. I didn't get sleepy. I didn't mess up a
knee. I did have to stop in Sweet Home and purchase a 1/2lb of socket &
ratchet to tighten up my crank... which reminds me I need to find out why my
crank has loosened up 3 times in the last 2 weeks.  I did come home with too
many bags of Spiz in my bag.

Eric Vigoren is a patient riding companion.

You guys all did great.

Susan.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com
[mailto:orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com]On Behalf Of nate armbrust
  Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:16 PM
  To: Oregon area Randonneurs
  Subject: [OrRando] 400K ride report


  I wrote up a ride report for At Eden's Gate 400K and scattered some photos
in it.

  http://concerningbikes.blogspot.com/2006/05/edens-gate-400k.html


  When I have a chance to go through them, I'll upload some additional
photos to flikr. I'll send a link when I do.

  Big thanks to Susan and everybody who helped with the ride. Beautiful
route.

  Nate Armbrust
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