Exaggerated adventures by Ted

 Mohican double confidence check.  So for the two weeks after Bentonville I did nothing but eat shitty food and get fat. I did need 1 week of recovery, but two and eating bad was excessive. I gained a good amount of weight, which was kinda needed since I lost 8lbs in bentonville. So I started working out again a few days ago and was supposed to race Mohican on Saturday, but it got cancelled due to rain.  I am also in quite a research and planning of the Mohican 100. This is going to be rough because of the time cutoff. I’m not fast, I just have grit. So adding speed is going to be a challenge. Basically my speed issue is a calorie issue. I don’t have a good aerobic base, so my heart rate is high the whole time, burning calories like crazy.  So this was a confidence ride and an expeirement, I was carb loadeddddd on sugar junk for sure. So I wondered how long that would hold me over. Also I only got cramps once at Marji. Never had them since. So I wanted to induce cram...

 The birthday adventures started with my Mohican 3 lap adventure on Tuesday.  Wednesday and Thursday were focused on eating. Just eat constantly. Refuel, refuel, refuel, also lots of stretching and packing.  I had a plan in mind, DRTCAMP started Saturday evening in Bentonville; 13.5 hour drive for me. Buttt I get out of work Friday at noon. So I started googling. Longest and hardest trail I could find en route.  I landed on Mark Twain national forest. In the Ozarks, hell yeah! I watched Ozark 3 times on Netflix. So of course I want to go searching for the Snells poppy farm!  So I found the Berrymen Loop, it was blue-black (depending which app you looked at) 25-30 miles 2500-3000 foot elevation. Perfect! And they got camping.  So I was all packed. I had removed all the seats from my car…. Except the driver seat… and made a very nice bed, I had sheets and cardboard to cover the windows. I washed my bike… and video taped myself doing it for proof.  Side s...