Thanks! It was a blast! SO much better weather than last year -- practically hot during the day, comfortably cool at the start and at night. I need to write a gushing letter of praise to Dinotte lights. They were amazing! Batteries lasted significantly longer than advertised -- when does that ever happen?

What did I eat? Not enough, but drank enough calories to survive. Over the 24 hours, I had one banana, two pbj's, about 5 Gu gels, three or four packs of Shot Bloks, three or four Luna chews (yum!) and half a subway sub. All my plans for soup, hot foods, and granola bars went out the window. I did have 6 bottles with 3 scoops of Sustained plus 4 scoops of Gu2O, and about two bottles of just the Gu2O. I'll have to add up the calories.

My pace wasn't great. We hooked up with some guys who wanted to hammer for the 12-hours, and they kept the pace insane at first. Of course, they all blew up after the first century. We dropped off after about 30 miles of zone 4-5 riding. My average heartrate for the whole thing, rests included was about 140. I just stayed in a conversational pace all day long. It's the pace that you know you can go faster, but won't be able to maintain for 24-hours.

I highly recommend a few cans of Rockstar. I started them when we moved to the track at night. One at about 7pm, chugging when we came in for a stop. The second can about midnight, and the last was at around 2am, when I realized I might not make my goal, which was to break the record in my age group. I had interference problems between my lights and computer, so I didn't even know how many miles I had, and my friends (who raced the 12) who came down to cheer for the ending lied about where I was, so I had to pick up the pace at the end.

I broke the record I was going for, and won my age category and overall too. Couldn't have done it without my incredible team and my amazing boyfriend.