I dood it!!! (Part 1: Furnace Creek (-178 ft) to Badwater (-282 ft), 17 miles)

Well, I'm back. Bragging time. And damn it if I didn't actually do it. All of it. I still don't think the sense of accomplishment has quite sunk in yet. Understand that I'd been quite the couch potato until May of this year, since around my early 20s. For those of you following computerchix's posts, I have one correction, that I feel even better about: I wasn't last of the finishers. About 5 came in after I did. I was last among the finishers from Indiana, but they made a very nice welcoming committee. See these pics (my own pics will be posted soon):

Me crossing the line
Me having just gotten a hug from E, my primary pacing partner for the first half of the ride
Did I just ride 105 miles?

( For those who want to be bored by the gory details, start here... )

Part 2: Badwater (-282 ft) to Mormon Point (sea level), 14 miles

( Click here for Part 2 )