What it takes.

Final Tour of the Gila race report up.
For full results go HERE.

What does it take? I get asked this allot. What does it really take to do an Ironman? What does it take to ride the RAAm? What does it take to complete or win a stage race?
Well… it takes allot of things. It takes a lot of food! I found it amusing to look at everything I ate during the 5 days of racing. Here is an estimate of what I ate from the morning of the first stage to the end of the last stage.
...And still lost weight.

6 bagels
½ loaf of bread
½ gallon oj
½ gallon soy milk
8 cups cooked rice
18 eggs
½ honey bear of honey
6 shiner bocks
1 package Oreo cookies
1.5 lb’s pasta
20 oz pasta sauce
½ lb chicken
1 avocado
2 cans tuna
2 package mac& cheese
1 lb’s grape nuts cereal
4 tortillas
½ lb cheese
8oz hot sauce
16 oz pico
6 cans coke
1.5 lb's of coffee

Race food:
25 bottles of sport drink
6 bottles of recover drink
9 power bars
3 cans Go Fast
19 gels