suffering

For one exultant moment I thought I'd won the whole thing -- if only because the three runners ahead of me were running the 1ok and so had another lap to go.

But no. I got beaten into third place -- by a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old!

Tne good news, the really good news, is that it HURT. And for that I have Floyd Landis to thank.

Between the Badwater 135 last July and back-to-back century +’s on the bike the past two days, I am now quite well versed on the subject of pain and everything that goes with it. I’ve also become intimately familiar with the route from Furnace Creek to Lone Pine, so if anyone has ANY questions about it, I have a ton of worthless information in my brain to spew back at you.

Luckily, starting tomorrow I will be 100% focused on running (not sure I even want to see my bike for a while), so you won’t have to put up with me posting arguably off-topic stories about my biking adventures.