Two More Miles

It really isn't good to get an email with race updates less than 24 hours before start time:

"In an effort to make sure that we have the safest ride possible, the Katy Police Department asked that we do a minor change to our routes at the beginning of the ride. We have done so but the change added approximately 2 miles to each route. We now are riding 28, 46 and 70 mile routes."

Today I went for a bike ride, 70 miles. For those keeping track at home, 14 miles longer than I have ever gone. Today had about 15-20 mph winds. Luckily, we were only dead into the wind for about miles 50-60. I finished at about 5 hours and 15 minutes. I stopped at all 5 rest stops and had about 4 hours and 30 minutes of actual ride time.

The question you ask yourself after such an event is, could I have gone 42 more miles, completing the 112 mile ride in the IRONMAN. Also, you think about how you feel at the finish of that ride knowing you have a marathon to run after that. Oh, and to start the day you have to swim 2.4 miles.

But that is really a rhetorical question.