Popular demand has asked for a before-during-after account of the 2007 ride. There is only one way I can think of to boil it down…blow by blow, and mile by mile.
Mile 0 – it is 3:45 in the morning fer chrissakes!
Mile 1 – I better do something to tone down the Adrenaline Pumped BopOp or he is gonna burn out before we leave Renton.
Mile 2 – “Take it easy!”
Mile 2.5 – I can’t believe I have 202 miles to go
Mile 3 – I can’t believe I already have to pee.
Mile 30 – Yikes this goo stuff is syrupy
Mile 40 – THAT wasn’t a hill. Pfff
Mile 60 – Holy cow, that goo stuff is kinda nasty
Mile 100 – I can’t believe my butt hurts and THAT was the best PB&J sandwich I have ever had in my life.
Mile 100 – That was the second best PB&J sandwich I have ever had in my life.
Mile 100 – That was the third best PB&J sandwich I have ever had in my life.
Mile 100 – Echoing BopOp
Mile 100.2 – Holy COW my butt hurts.
Mile 140 – You know, it is kinda hot out here and I am getting sorta tired…okay really tired.
Mile 141 – Man, that goo stuff is really pretty despicable.
Mile 150 – That huge bridge spanning the river looks really cool from here.
Mile 150.5 – I gotta do WHAT!?
Mile 153 – Now THAT was a hill.
Mile 154 – Wow, this is harder than I thought it would be.
Mile 155 – Wow, this is harder than I thought it would be.
Mile 156 – Wow, this is harder than I thought it would be.
Mile 157 – Wow, this is harder than I thought it would be.
Mile 160 – That 12 year old kid did all this too?
Mile 161 through 199 – I just woke up and all I recall is that I just woke up. What is happening to me?
Mile 200 – Who put a hill in the road here to get in my way of making my butt stop hurting!
Mile 200.1 – Who put this slow moving train here, actually not in my way, but threatening to be in my way and anyway it is keeping me from making my butt stop hurting!
Mile 203 – Who put this stoplight here yada yada yada from making my butt stop hurting.
Mile 204 – Goosebumps at the throngs giving encouragement and cheer!
Mile 204 – Water?! Ice Cream?! Pictures?! Pizza?! No more goo please!
Mile 204 – Wow, that was easy!…ish…like
The next day – I wonder when my butt is going to stop hurting?
blief 
LOL!!! and HA! HA! HA! HA!
Thank you very much for the blow by blow — this really is an excellent add-on to the summary presented before (“Started out, got there 15 hours later, went 204 miles at an average speed of 16.7mph.”). Good thing you didn’t have a tape recorder along; maybe not a camera either!
Have you seen a doctor about that posterior problem? (“Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.”)
Love and admiration from the Grumpy one.
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That was fairly accurate, I’d say. But you left out a couple of places where I complained about my butt hurting.
Also, there was that point at about mile 130 when we realized that we didn’t want any more of the electrolyte-enhanced water. Just plain, pure water, please.
Best of all was the last 100 yards through the cheering crowd, and the best of that was the sight of several familiar faces amongst them.
Anybody want to buy some extra goo? We have several of them left over, and at least one kilo of electrolyte mix.
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Mmmmm…..electrolyte mix.
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Electrolyte, huh? Will it work in a lead-acid battery? The battery in the Ford F-250 is a mite low.
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