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Freed Roger wrote:Yikes -Artic ultra
http://www.6633ultra.com/
On my bike ride to Alaska I met a couple that took that turn up to Tuk. Made me wish I had had time to do same.

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lukethedrifter wrote:
Freed Roger wrote:Yikes -Artic ultra
http://www.6633ultra.com/
On my bike ride to Alaska I met a couple that took that turn up to Tuk. Made me wish I had had time to do same.
were they on bikes?

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a French couple on bikes iirc

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lukethedrifter wrote:
Freed Roger wrote:Yikes -Artic ultra
http://www.6633ultra.com/
On my bike ride to Alaska I met a couple that took that turn up to Tuk. Made me wish I had had time to do same.
roughly how far did you ride on that trip? how many flat tires?

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Unpaved, rocky roads on a cyclocross bike so lots and lots of flats. Got real good at quick fixing them.

2800 mi from SeaTac airport to Homer Alaska. I think.

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Cost of an Ironman. Yikes - this scares me more than the artic ultra. Though the swim portion of an ironman does also.
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I don't see the registration fee, which IIRC is at least $700
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Yo Jocephus. Here's your chance to become a sponsored (paid) athlete
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http://normlathletics.org/avery-collins ... -cannabis/
When Avery first moved to Colorado, he was sponsored by American Cannabis Company.
Avery had no difficulty finding additional sponsorships. As the perfect spokesperson for edibles and ultra-marathon running, he quickly found race sponsorship with Incredibles and Mary’s Medicinals.

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Dave Mirra killed himself.

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Freed Roger wrote:Yo Jocephus. Here's your chance to become a sponsored (paid) athlete


http://normlathletics.org/avery-collins ... -cannabis/
sounds good to me!
MrCrowesGarden wrote:Dave Mirra killed himself.
crazy. i'm not really into the X sports genre necessarily but i remember hearing about him all the time in high school, etc. looks like he was doing the ironman challenges these days and stuff with a wife and kids.

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http://www.gq.com/story/san-quentin-marathon San Quentin Prison Marathon
Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan have passed through these iron latticed gates. Johnny Cash has performed here, earning a Grammy nomination and inspiring a young burglar named Merle Haggard. So many bebop greats did time for heroin that San Quentin used to field its own jazz band. Crips leader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Stanley Tookie Williams (played by Jamie Foxx in Redemption) was executed here. Wife slayer and cable-news obsession Scott Peterson (played by Dean Cain in The Perfect Husband) awaits his turn. So do 725 other men, their fate likelier to be decided by old age, or their own hand, than by the state’s glacial appellate machinery.
“Guys will say, ‘Man, slow down, you’re going too fast,’ ” says Michael Keeyes, who is 68 and entering his 43rd year of incarceration. His response is a punch line: “I’ve got Dobermans on my heels!” He ran his first marathon in 2014, finishing in a respectable four hours and 29 minutes.

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