Yeah, I'm more like the Chris Carmichael in this relationship. But Jill Homer is my new hero.
Ray's feeling much better now. Still needs alot of rest and he will get his stitches out of his hand next week. His cankels are gone, thank god! But his mind is still out there somewhere. Still on the top of some pass, still on the race and the other racers. The stories have not started to come out yet. So, I've been thinking about this for a couple of days. What is it about this race that makes these guys push themselves to complete this? After pushing through miles and miles of mud and cow patties, toe nails falling off, exhaustion, freezing rain and on the brink of hypothermia. Almost all the racers have come back for more because their past attempts have landed them on the scratch list. What is it that makes them think they can beat mother nature?
This is different from any other endurance race Ray has attempted. The only resemblance to a bike race is, you are on your bike pedaling, that's it. This was not just getting ready for a local endurance race. This was planning, and training and training and more training. So much had been put on the line to get to the start line. When it was time to throw in the towel, it was like telling someone they could not summit Mt. Everest that day and they would have to go back down and try another time.
Ray's feeling much better now. Still needs alot of rest and he will get his stitches out of his hand next week. His cankels are gone, thank god! But his mind is still out there somewhere. Still on the top of some pass, still on the race and the other racers. The stories have not started to come out yet. So, I've been thinking about this for a couple of days. What is it about this race that makes these guys push themselves to complete this? After pushing through miles and miles of mud and cow patties, toe nails falling off, exhaustion, freezing rain and on the brink of hypothermia. Almost all the racers have come back for more because their past attempts have landed them on the scratch list. What is it that makes them think they can beat mother nature?
This is different from any other endurance race Ray has attempted. The only resemblance to a bike race is, you are on your bike pedaling, that's it. This was not just getting ready for a local endurance race. This was planning, and training and training and more training. So much had been put on the line to get to the start line. When it was time to throw in the towel, it was like telling someone they could not summit Mt. Everest that day and they would have to go back down and try another time.
