Pan Ohio Hope Ride day 2

You never know your limits until you really push yourself.

Today's ride was 100 miles. We got up at 5 am, Dropped off for luggage to picked up our bikes. Breakfast was at 5:45 and was worlds better than yesterday. We had actual scrambled eggs instead of powdered eggs, bacon, cereal and lots of other goodies that we didn't have yesterday.
We got out on the road at 6:20 am when we were really cruising for the first 20 miles, which was the first water stop. We made it there by 7:30 and only 10 other riders had been there before us.
At about mile 28 a monstrous series of hills of course the first one had to be the worst. Extremely steep, it would put most of the climbs in Cincinnati to shame. I made it about halfway up before I had to dismount and walk the rest of the way up.
Water stops weren't much different from yesterday,  although there were more and they were closer together today. I was can't even count the number of bananas that I've eaten over the past two days.
We made it to the lunch stop by 10:30 or so. Lunch was at mile 46 and was pretty lame. Just Subway sandwiches today.
I was already feeling pretty worn out by this time, but continued to push on.i don't really remember much about the timing of the water stops over the next 50 miles, but there were lots more hills and things finally started to flatten out around mile 85. 
I was wondering just how much longer i could continue and so was the person I was riding with. Fortunately for me, i had found my breaking point just 5 days earlier.  When I rode by myself on Monday, I made it 50 miles before my legs had started cramping up. I made it another 25 miles cramping most of the time until i was just a few miles from home and had a huge hill to go before I called for a ride home. That ride gave me serious doubts about being able to complete the Pan Ohio, but it also gave me tremendous insight into my capabilities and limits.
At every water stop I ate something and knew that because I hadn't started cramping that I could continue and definitely couldn't give up.
About a mile and a half after the last water stop,  I turned to look behind me to see where my two riding partners were and I happened to run over a huge rock, causing my rear tire to go flat.  I changed my tube on the side of the road and we were back on our way. We made it another 5 miles or so and were almost to the finish when i spotted a rider off on the side of the road. We asked him if he was ok and found out that he had gotten dizzy and crashed. His biggest mistake was that he wasn't drinking enough and he only had one water bottle with him. We flagged down a couple more riders and one went forward to try and find one of the support vehicles to call for help. Fortunately we had passed a fire station just a half mile back and the other person went back there to try and get help. They sent out an ambulance which met us at the next intersection. We then went on to the finish line ourselves and rolled in a little after 5pm. 
I am happy to report that I saw the guy who crashed a little while later walking in to the registration area to check in.