Hot Diggity!!! My Iron Butt ride has been Certified.

[Aiki boy]

I'm jazzed as all get out, I.B.A. notified me today that my Saddlesore ride from Las Vegas to San Jose and back has been certified. I know, not a big deal to the seasoned pros, but this is my 1st one so I just wanted to share my jazzedness, (New word that I just invented ) with the Pashnit folks that ispired me to get out of town and ride. Time to move back to Cali so I can ride with yall.

[SklyWag]

Congratulations!
It is a big achievement for everyone who does it regardless of how some minimize it.

[badsifu]

Sweet! So when is the next big ride? Gotta post the patch pic in your siggy too.

[flying_hun]

Absolutely a big deal. Congratulations!

Kurt

[Loki]

It is a big deal. Congrats on being certified. Keep good records.

[FishWitch]

Congrats!!! I think it's an awesome accomplishment & something to be proud of.

I know it sounds weird but I really want to do an Iron Butt someday. I just love long rides and am steadily trying to work up to doing one. Someday!

I did accomplish my Cinnamon Bun 500 tho this past spring. UnoFISHally of course.

[Fastfar]

Good job, congrats

[Chocoholic]

So I have a question.
Cinnamon Bun for 500. Iron Butt for 1000. There no term in between for 750? What about 1250? (big smile)

[FishWitch]

Originally Posted by nonixayu

So I have a question.
Cinnamon Bun for 500. Iron Butt for 1000. There no term in between for 750? What about 1250? (big smile)

Cinnamon Bun 500 was one I coined when I first started riding. No idea if there really is such a thing. My first ride ever was 300 miles so an Iron Butt only seems to be part of the natural chain of progression.

Iron Butt Site ~IBA

Congrats again. Post your story on it if ya can and give us the details. Would love to read about your experience and of course any pics if possible.

[Aiki boy]

Originally Posted by nonixayu

So I have a question.
Cinnamon Bun for 500. Iron Butt for 1000. There no term in between for 750? What about 1250? (big smile)

Your words in green definitely remind me of how I felt on the last hundred miles, I almost gave up in Baker, Ca. cause I was getting major eye fatigue, but I kicked myself in the butt, 1/2 a bottle of eye drops, and my 1st and only Red Bull in my life, (Uch! that stuff is nasty), and finished with an hour to spare. This is the entire after ride post originally posted on 15 May 06 on a local sportbike club's site that I used to be a prospect with.

As some of you know I planned to do a Saddle sore ride from Las Vegas to San Jose and back this past Saturday. I didn't post the ride due to lack of interest in doing this ride on a sportbike and it being short notice, waiting for high winds to die down. For those of you that might want to do a ride like this in the future, here are some of the things I experienced on the ride.

In all actuality, the ride was not even slightly uncomfortable on a sportbike, changing feet and leg positions constantly helped tremendously to avoid stiffness and body fatigue.
A few different leg positions:
1. Balls of the feet on front pegs extending your legs up and resting your elbows on your knees takes pressure off your wrists.
2. Heels on front pegs helped relieve thigh and knee tension and allows you to lower your wind resistance, and pushing your knees open with your elbows stertches inner thigh muscles.
3. If you have rear pegs, put your legs on them, resting your ankles on the pegs relieves thigh muscle tension big time and relieves hip flexor crapping.
4. Moving your butt back on the seat and resting your shins on the back pegs allows you to stretch inner thigh muscles and your lower back.
5. Do the superman, take your feet off the pegs and extend your legs to the rear, but be careful on bumpy roads so your inner foot does not hit the road, I almost broke my big toe when I hit a bump and my foot banged into a hole in the pavement. At 90 MPH this hurts alot.
6. If you are flexible like me, I was able to put my legs over the top of my frame sliders to get a good hamstring and lower back stretch, I do not recommend doing this in traffic or for an extended period of time. Just long enough to get a good stretch.

The biggest problem I had on this ride was eye fatigue on the return leg of the ride.
1. Bring eye drops and use it at every gas stop.
2. Get plenty of sleep the night before, if you didn't sleep well, I got maybe 3 hours cause I was pumped for the ride. DO NOT DO THE RIDE!!!!! I have a tremendous internal auto-pilot but almost didn't finish the ride because of major eye fatigue, my eyes are still recovering.
3. If you are a smoker, I highly recommend not smoking on this ride because your stops are 10 to 15 min. longer and this can add 2- to 3 hours to your ride, which contributes greatly to eye fatigue.

Plan your route well in advance.
Know your gas stops before you get there and call them ahead of time so that you know they are open 24 hrs. When you map your route using Yahoo for instance click on the icon, show gas stations and you can get the phone numbers. Also call your credit card company before your ride, mine shut my card off cause they thought it got stolen and the thief went on a wild spending spree of $10.00 in gas every 150 miles, Retards. lol
Check the web site IBA.com for documenting your ride and if you have questions, e-mail them, they do answer e-mails quickly.

Prepping your body.
1. Hydrate yourself the day before I drank 2 gallons of water, if you ain't peeing you haven't drank enough. The frequency wll stabilize the next morning.
2. Take multi vitamins and Vitamin C.
3. Meal replacement bars, beef jerky, trail mix, and plenty of bananas for potassium to reduce crapping and do not eat heavy meals or junk food before or during the ride, make your calories count.
4. Invest in a camelback so you can stay hydrated and make sure that you secure the drinking end of the hose so you don't pinch it between your leg and the tank. This lets fluid out and you might waste time at your gas stop, pulling fairings looking for a coolant leak that doesn't exsist. Also I recently figured out that squirting a little water on my glove while riding I canclean my face shield without having to stop, I wish I had figured that trick out when I rode through the Gilroy area, massive bugs. Just make sure you know which hand your wiping bugs with and which hand your eating snacks out of your tank bag.
5. Earplugs or an MP3 player, music keeps me alert.
6. A throttlemiester is a very good idea, I didn't have one then but I do now and love it.

Make no mistake this ride is very tough, especially when you have to keep a schedule.
Warm up rides help too. I did a bunch of 300, 500, and a few 700 mile rides before I tackled this one.
So now a 300 mile ride is like going to 7-11 for me. lol
Planning is key to completing this ride, although I had some difficulties completing this ride, planning helped overcome mainy of the obsticales. I hope this helps anyone else planning on doing an Iron Butt ride, if I think of anything else, I'll post up and post up if you have any thoughts or questions.
Also taking Ibuprophen at the start and half way point also worked very well, maybe that's why I wasn't sore.