A quote from the Ultra Marathon cycling page:
[Race winner Ben Couturier] 'had stopped briefly in Glennallan "to eat some real food, get a shirt and lose all forms of entertainment. Walkmans, computers, heart rate monitors and all of the other toys take away from the concentration and self drive of the race. To numb your mind with toys feels like cheating because you lose the pain. I put my head down at this point and just rode."
The kid sounds refreshingly old skool to me. Can I get an Amen from the choir?
Larry Hakim
>From: Mark Wolfe <markw@wolfenet.org>
>To: CR List <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: [CR]2004 Fireweed 400 won on Eisentraut
>Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 20:42:08 -0700
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>I was checking out the Ultra Marathon cycling page, and saw this
>interesting bit about the Fireweed 400. This race is a RAAM qualifier,
>and this years event was won by a 17yo on a 1974 Eisentraut. I know,
>it's the motor, but hey, that had to be cool. He's a bike mechanic,
>and obviously appreciates steel. :)
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>http://www.ultracycling.com/results/fireweed2004.html
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>Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
>- - Kahlil Gibran
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