Remember when Michael Phelps was telling about his 10,000 calorie a day diet when training for the olympics? Oh my, wouldn't that be fun ...

(Please bring me another large milkshake please, I need to maintain my weight for morning swim practice.)

Very fun. When my daughter was a teen she played USTA tennis about 3 hours a day and more on the weekend. She was growing rapidly (and is now 5 foot9), so we had to force her to have things like Milkshakes, just to keep the weight on.

I swam 1.25 miles today. Warm pool.

I did 40 minutes of Pilates today, having an early Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.

I don't know about Phelps and his 10K calories, but we typically burn about 6K calories on the 1st day on the MS150, and about 4K on day 2. Needless to say, it is a chore feeding 13,000 cyclists who are ravenously hungry for the tour organizers. Lots of double plates of food...

Time to catch up...spinning class thursday night went about an hour and I am too lazy to go get my HR monitor to look up the totals, because I just got back from a 45 min spin class this afternoon (754 calories, 91% max 71% average, 63 mins total). We will be doing another class tomorrow morning around 10am, so that will be 4 classes in 5 days. Then we take a break until Tuesday night...

Yay ewiz, you were able to do it today

tx: I cannot imagine feeding that many empty stomaches!

Hey TX,

I rode in the local MS150 about five or six years ago, for the first 35 mile stretch (and that was a stretch, lol).

We consumed lots of calories and water during the ride. They fed us well along the way. I still have my T shirt from that day. It was about 95 degrees with full sun and high humidity. I will never, ever try that again!

Also, I was taking Copaxone then, and when I did my morning shot in my thigh, I hit the muscle and it felt like I'd been shot in the leg with a gun. Ouch!!!

There was a 75 year old lady riding too, and she was a bike marathon regular. She had been on a 100 or 200 mile ride in Alaska and part of it was riding through snow accumulation!

She and I were at about the same pace and we both stopped at 35 miles. It was great, but I was completely worn out for about a month.

So, needless to say, I'm in awe of you or anybody with MS who completes the 150 miles!

Good for you! Alot of people get hung on "what if I can't make it the whole way?" The reality is that it is the fundraising that counts, not the mileage under your tires. If you tell your donors "I probably won't make it 150 miles, but I will go as far as my body will let me go", you will find that most don't really care if you are going that far or not...they just want to help the cause.

My first one was from San Antonio to Corpus Christi, Texas, and it was 2 years before I got my dx, but after my first symptoms. It was 95F with a 105-110F heat index and about a 15-20 mph headwind pushing against us. I made about 68 of 90 miles the first day and all 62 miles of the 2nd day.

During the ride it looked like somebody had driven down the road tossing bikers out the window into the ditch. Ever place where a tree had grown over the fences, there would be a couple of bikes laying in the ditch and a couple of riders laying in the shade under the tree...no matter how small the tree was.

At one point I was laying in a small patch of shade at the last break point next to a high school with about 10-15 other riders. I opened my eyes and looked up and there were about 8-10 vultures circling above us about 200 feet up. I told the girl next to me that either we REALLY smelled BAD or the vultures thought that a few of us weren't going to make it.

I specifically time my Copaxone injections so that I do my thighs on Monday and Tuesday so that I don't wind up with that problem for my weekend rides. It does make Tuesday night spin class a pain at time though...

I told my wife before she joined me for her first ride that she needed to tuck her sense of shame into her back pocket and leave it there before the ride. I told her that there would be people that were older (like in their 60s), younger (like 14), fatter, handicapped, riding mountain bikes, riding single sped bikes, etc. that would pass her up at some point during the day...and if she got depressed or upset because somebody like that passed her, she would make it a long day on herself. I told her if she just accepted that it was going to happen before the ride started, it would make life alot easier

Thanks, but I don't really look at what I do as hard. I am not currently afflicted with balance problems, extreme fatigue, etc. I greatly appreciate the support of others with MS, but to me, the ones who have much more severe symptoms than I do and are forced to use a wheelchair or who can't walk to the mailbox because of balance or fatigue, but still put on a smile each morning and make the most of their lives...those are the heroes to me.

They overcome whatever physical or mental issues they are having and put forth the effort to live a full life and to help those around them in the ways that they are able, and it really inspires me to try to do more each day in my own life. Those are the people I am riding for.

You guys are awesome

One mile swim today

Not much movement from my neck of the woods these days. Furthest I go is to fix fences and chase after fat little ponies.
I'm not in the mood to swim- it's too wet. I tried yoga and it just hurt. I've had himself stretching my legs up in the air (well just off the ground actually) as I lay on the floor and that really hurt.

Taking one step back recently...

NIce to see you again pud.Fixing fences is plenty of exercise

I swam a mile today.