Sunday, July 18, 2010

Race Prep: 50 Miler to Antelope Island


Jami and I set out around 10:30 am
on Saturday to get in our longest ride yet....
when we left it was already 90 degrees outside.




Our goal was to make it from Farmington to Antelope Island and back before 1:30 pm.....cause we're Moms and that's all the time we get :)
I haven't been to Antelope Island since I was in
8th grade. Now I remember why. It is beautiful from a distance.
It would have been a great ride had it not been so blistering hot.
The causeway from Syracuse to the island is relentlessly mean and long and straight.
The lake is so low now that the majority of the ride out there is stinky, dried up and infested with grasshoppers....which have no qualms about occasionally hopping into your legs, arms and face. Yeah. It's gross.
We made it. It hurt. Scared out of my mind to do it again after swimming a mile then followed by a half marathon run. I think I've lost my mind.

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