Going Long and Hard.

Great job Jim!

I'd also like to thank you for introducing me to peanut butter and jelly pop-tarts. I saw those in this thread a couple pages back. I mentioned them to my wife. Today she brought some home from the grocery store. I really like them. THANKS! And yes, I already thanked my wife.
 
Great Job, Jim! I checked on you throughout the night and was super impressed with your progress.

Hope you get to enjoy some time at a nice lodge, and a nice scenic recovery ride before you head back to Anchorage.
 
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So that's the pile of food I have left over. Not pictured are my box of Pop Tarts and another small handful of food I had in my Jerry Can that I donated to the Winter Lake checkpoint. From what I can gather I ate 1/2 a bag of Peanut M&Ms and a box of fruit snacks in 13.5 hours. I drank 3 of the 4 bottles and 2 Yellow RedBulls. I drank the other 5-hour energy just now, game on.

Most of the racers that I saw come through Winter Lake didn't take any of the supplies from their drop bags. The couple of us 130 folks ate all their food while we were waiting for the plane to come get us. The Lodge was serving a rice and bean burrito thing to the racers but it's all they had.

I have a free day so I'm gonna cruise around Anchorage and see what kind of mayhem I can get into. There's a bunch of stuff going on because of the Dog Race. They actually brought snow in from somewhere and made a route for them for the first stage. I'll get a picture of it while I'm out. They rode on it during the Big Fat Ride but I was busy getting my bike ready.
 
You know its a low snowfall year when they have no snow in Alaska.

Also you know you are in the largest state in the union when you are anchored down in Anchorage.
 
Wow, I learned something new today. I would have guessed Texas as well. And it turns out Alaska is more than twice the size on land area alone.
 
pooriggy said:
You know its a low snowfall year when they have no snow in Alaska.

Also you know you are in the largest state in the union when you are anchored down in Anchorage.
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There's no snow in Anchorage, North got hammered. It snowed during the race and it took a dozen hours for the leaders to get to CP4. Still a fast year. Under 2 days for the winner.
 
i was wondering if you ended up dying out in the snow somewhere cuz this thread didnt tell me stuff was happening, then i saw the rad pics from the trails you put on today. so jealous
 
I spent all day yesterday in an airplane. Left at 9am in the morning, had a 20 minute layover in Seattle, got into NJ at Midnight, home at 1am. Am tired. I think I will write recap in stages.
 
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The first night I was in town was the pre-race party at Speedway Cycles. This is Graceland for fat bikers. The spot where it all went down. They have a mini-museum about the evolution of these bikes with examples from the early 90's. They also had the first Pugsley and a bunch of early Fatbacks.

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Being a somewhat socially awkward fellow I wandered around the party and introduced myself to the other racers but didn't really have anything to say as a Rookie. I listened to Veterans like Tim Hewitt talk about conditions and whatnot. Sorta just followed Sean around being that he knows all these people. Was rad and a bit overwhelming to be in a room with some of these folks. This race has so much history and heritage it makes you feel very small and very humble.
 
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