EPIC Weekend has arrived

For a year now I have been hearing about it. I listened to the folks training for Lake Placid last year and what they had to go through. I knew it would be in the schedule and honed on it right away when the schedule was sent out by the Coach in January. The weekend that will test you and push you BEYOND your limits and then ask for more. EPIC - that is what our coach refers to this weekend. While most people are at the beach or taking it easy, we will be training and reaching our peak before we taper.

EPIC - it begins tomorrow when we start riding at 7 am and go 120 miles. The temperature is suppose to be in the 60's when we start and climb into the 90's throughout the day. Then on Sunday, we are swimming a 2-mile race at a lake in Reston, taking a short break and then at the heat of the day, run 20 miles! EPIC - and so it begins.....

It took me over an hour to prepare for tomorrow's ride. I have a cooler full of the following:

2-poptarts (breakfast)
1-powerbar (breakfast)
10-gu shots
2-gallons of water mixed with gatorade and sustained
1-gallon of water
1-gallon of gatorade
2-12oz cokes
1-bag of pretzels
1-16 oz bottle of Nesquick (recovery)

It will be interesting to see how much I use up. This looks like a chemistry project...