bp ms150 – 2010 complete!

2010 BP MS-150 is finally over.

I’ve been training since January and it paid off big time. Almost every Saturday, I woke up at around 5am, drove out an hour and trained for the big ride and it was tough to do it every weekend. But every week that passed by, it got easier and easier, and hills were becoming less of a nuisance. Also going to the gym 3 times a week helped in heaps. My legs are stronger, my arms, my back, even my ass was stronger. MS 150 was 100 times easier this year than last.

But one thing was still a road block. My uncontrollable runs. My first day of the ms 150 was going great. I was ridding through it pretty easily and I had about 7 miles left of the 100. I would almost say it was a breeze but I don’t want to come off arrogant. But I spoke to soon, cause my stomach started to hurt, hurt REALLY REALLY bad. I only had 7 miles left and I needed a toilet asap. I skipped the last stop and there were no other rest stops left and I started getting desperate. I got so desperate I was looking around to take a deuce even in the woods. I was looking left to right for someone to be outside on there porch so I could beg and plead to use there toilet. I had no choice but to push through and get to the finish line as quickly as possible.

I thought maybe if I biked hard enough, the pain in my legs would overcome the pain in my stomach, but that didn’t work. I could only hope it doesn’t explode in my bike shorts. After what seemed like the longest 7 miles I’ve done, I finally get to the finish line, and run to the first port-a-potty I saw. I’ll just sum up it up and say that I barely got it all out.

I could barely hold down food the first night, and same thing for the morning on the second day. I was worried I would have to call it quits and head to Austin in shame. But as soon as I hopped on the bike, I felt much better. So I pushed on.

So first day was good besides the toilet fiasco, and 2nd day was much better. I took the challenge route this year, and I’ll admit, it was the toughest route I’ve ridden so far. It had some really steep hills that I barely made over. I didn’t have to walk my bike at all this year. I pushed through and made it pretty easily. Well not that easy, but much easier than last year.

I had no injuries besides my knee acting up. My IT band is super tight and causing my knee to hurt. Feeling better but going to take it easy for the next week or two.

I ended up finishing both days at around 2:30pm. Beat my last years record by 4 hours! lol. Can’t wait for the next MS 150. I hope to beat this years record by atleast another 2 hours. Photos and videos to come.