The beginning of the LONG ones...

Yesterday marked our 1st OWS that is the full distance of ironman!! I didn't wear my full wet suit becuz it was just too hot, but i did wear my lava pants. I felt so good and strong! I was super stoked! i was able to do 4000 meters and didn't have to stop at all. I took a honey stinger gel before I started and it helped a lot. It was super choppy coming back but I was able to swim it without a problem. I did have to pee half way and had to take a tiny slow down to be able to pee. LOL. Estella and I then ran our 6 miles. It was pretty brutal but luckily the temp went down and we did it together. afterwards we went to the store and got our supplies for Today's big ride!!
Today started out awesome. The weather was cool, the wind was low. We did the route that mimics our IMAZ route. The loop goes to Fremont and by the time we got to Fremont, the wind had picked up so the stretch on Old HWY 275 was a full on head wind. It was tough, but i was able to keep it at between 14 and 15 most of the way to caseys. we had our cars strategically parked so that we could refuel and refill our waters in waterloo. I started with a Gu and had a uncrustable pbj sandwich on the 1st route...started our 2nd loop and decided we weren't going to stop on this one...by the time we got to Fremont again, the wind had picked up A LOT!! this time i was only able to do mostly 11 and 12 mph...sometimes getting it up to 14ish... I was able to stay up with everyone and actually ahead of most the whole loop. It was sooo tough though. My neck was a bit sore and i was feeling pretty tired when we rolled into caseys...but not near as bad as i thought i would. After a stop at caseys we headed back to the cars for the 2nd fuel up. this time we decided it was WAY too windy so instead of doing a 3rd loop to fremont, we went to  La Shara instead..that way we would be out of the SE wind!.  We had a few bouts left with wind but we were able to go much faster. we took our normal dead end road for a little extra and when we got back to waterloo, we were at about 94 miles...so we had to finish of course!! we took a couple of loops around waterloo and finally were able to get it DONE!!!
In real time it took us about 71/2 hours with all of our stops (one included helping eunice fix her breaks that were rubbing) so by the time we got done it was after 2pm. We still had to run a very turtle like 10 mins too! EEKS! but we did it!!! and I actually did not feel near as bad as i thought i would! i wasn't hurting near as bad as i thought, and i felt pretty strong for doing 100 miles. my neck hurt some. Lynn gave me an aleve after the 2nd loop, which helped so I need to remember to do that for sure! after having this under our belt I am feeling more and more how close we are gettign to this race! WE GOT THIS!!!! Estella and I hit runza for some fries and a runza and then i came home to the boys. took a short nap and then had some gelato! :) Great day! Hard but good ride! Next up....18 miles of running on sunday! but 1st, the Husker game tomorrow! YAY!