So much goes into the effort that produces a team victory in any sport, the sacrifice that four individuals make when they commit to the insanity of an endurance event is not just four dudes showing up on singlespeeds and going faster than any other team of four dudes from wherever riding whatever, it's way more than that. It's the countless hours of training and committing your life to an ultimate goal, then showing up race day and executing a plan that works, and with all the crap that can go wrong in an endurance event, somehow pulling the shit off and then standing on top of the podium...suffering does not even come close to describing what it takes to get there.
AND THEN THERE ARE THE INTANGIBLES.
Immediately following the 18 hours of Fruita, Jono Ridler who battled a sour belly through the entire race crawled off the campsite and cacked it for a couple of minutes to release his demons. You have to hear the story from Jono as only he can tell it, but apparently this entire episode started shortly after leaving Edwards when while traveling in the back seat of Alex Coleman's truck with Courtney and Alex's black lab, the two humans where suddenly abused by and sprayed by a big ol nasty oily stinkin ass dog shit which smelled of only the most hellish odor that a dog can produce...that was the start of it for Jono and I'll let him finish the story for you sometime and if you get through it without laughing so hard you cry...well cheers to you. That episode stayed with the poor chap until his final lap.....and then this, and then a trip to the top of the podge with the rest of the team.
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