Athens-Atlanta

[tame_eep]

87 miles, 5600 vertical feet in a little over 8.5 hours, and I'm never doing the full thing again. Turns out the second 52 miles of the course that I've done before is a lot harder if you have to do the first half to get to it. The 86 degrees, sun harsh enough to give _me_ a farmer's tan, and 10mph headwind screwed a lot of people into dropping out

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[csg87]

I took a road bike from Pittsburgh to DC this summer, along the Yough River, Allegheny Highland, and C&O Towpath trails. From about the 3/4 point onward, the only thing that kept me going was the sheer inconvenience that would result if I quit in the middle...

[jacquez]

Congrats on finishing! That does sound like a real challenge.

[chamois]

congrats.

I just went and read the wikipedia article on marathons and it said this "The immune system is reportedly suppressed for a short time. Studies have indicated that an increase in vitamin C in a runner's post-race diet decreases the chance of sinus infections, a relatively common condition, especially in ultramarathons."

The longest trek I have done was a 50 km (31 mile) hike. By the end I was having to rest every 100 yards. My motivation to keep going was to prove to everybody that I could do it unlike the few other kids who on the hike who had all given up and been carted away in the support truck. (I was 8 at the time.)

[tame_eep]

Thanks ! Aside from being really sleepy I'm mostly back to normal. The vitamin C thing might explain why I've been craving orange juice even though I normally hate it.