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What's going on?  How is everyone?  I was on vacation last week so I'm still getting caught up, but do we have any chat time planned?  I am free tonight and Friday night from 7pm-11pm EST.

You can totally do this!!  I was pleasantly surprised on my first long ride that there are some stops where you can rest for a few minutes.  For me, that makes all the difference.  Just pace yourself and try to to scorch your quads during the first 40 miles.  Save some for the end!  Then make sure you stretch a lot after and hydrate well throughout your ride.

Good luck!  Let us know how it goes! 

You will do great, Jill.

Peanut butter and banana sandwiches are great road foods. Every now and then unclip from a pedal and stretch your legs out straight. Or, just stand up on your pedals and coast a little. Since your longest ride was 35, you may want to get off the bike for a few minutes around that time, pee, walk around a bit, eat something and then get back on.

Have a blast. Longer rides are really fun. Enjoy it.

As for my bike ride on Saturday, it was great but I ended up only doing the 32 mile distance. I was biking with some other BT folks and one had a flat a few miles in, then another had some chain issues, then we had a delay as one man had cardiac arrest after the first big hill on the ride. When we came up on him, he was flat on the ground not breathing. The word is that a nurse who was doing the ride administered CPR and saved his life. Needless to say that was a bit unnerving on my first ever organized bike ride outside of a triathlon. Anyhow, I ran out of time as my husband and the kids were waiting on me to go pick up our new puppy (which turned into 2 puppies, yes I am a complete glutton for punishment!!!) My daughter who is 8 rode 20 miles on her own bike and there were quite a few hills. I was amazed! My husband towed our 5 year old on the trail a bike and then attached the burley to the trail a bike with our 16 month old son. He only went 20 miles as well, but with the wagon train behind him I think that counts almost double.

Now I am gearing up for my next race on April 22nd. It will be my first Oly and I am a bit nervous. Yesterday when I had my workout with my trainer she asked me if I was doing intervals. I said "No, not really", her response was a rather harsh "Why not?!?!?!?!" I guess I need to work on that. We worked on legs again for 45 minutes straight and hard. I was spent after that and a spin class.

Good luck everyone with your workouts!