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Lunch Ride

Tandem to lunch

Morning Ride

More details to come. Sitting at machens now gotta bike a few miles back to the parking lot

Hard to put a ride report together for such a long ride. It feels like so much and so little happened. 
Main points: 
-hit a raccoon about 20 miles in, no clue how I held it up, it made pretty solid contact with the back of my front wheel. 
-Rained hard from Sedlia to Booneville. In Sedalia it was a full on storm, really dark sky massive winds and driving rain. Visibility ended up being a huge issue, glasses were fogging and obviously had water droplets, glasses off was spray and rain straight to the eyes. Ended up crashing really hard om a downed tree i couldn't really see. Tried to pull a bunny hop and completely ate it. 
-rocheport to jc i was riding into the wind, and totally lost my mentality. I legitimately wanted to pull off and just go back home. I thought there was no way I could beat the 13:37 mark at the point. Hurting all the way down. 
In jeff city I got a nice tailwind and it really pulled me back into it. At that point I was still just thinking I'd be finishing the ride but there wouldn't be anything at stake. 
At mile 140 I started thinking i could do it. There was some kind of religious pilgrimage thing a school was doing with groups of 30 or so kids marching down the trail which was bizarre. 

Fueling strategy
In my opinion, self supported isn't a huge disadvantage over a fully supported ride. On flat ground the extra weight doesn't matter. I ran a 3L bladder in my backpack that I was using for drink mix, with 2 one liter bottles of water. My whole plan today was to maximize my run rate. Hard to say how many grams/hr i ended up with because there's still some mix in my pack. I started with 36 servings of tailwind, 1 package of twin snakes, i package of kroger blue raspberry ropes, two packages of fudge pop tarts, 1 sleeve of saltines, 1 cheese and mustard sandwich, and 6 sis gels, and a full pan of rice krispy. Only thing left was the mix left inches bladder and 1 pop tart. 

Tire choice was Enve Hex 44. No complaints. 

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Tycho Wagner

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