The purpose of this blog is for me to have a place to come to write down my thoughts while training for another solo attempt at the 24 Hours of Moab. I raced it solo in 2004 and logged 11 laps (each lap is 15 miles). 16 laps won the solo division...that's a lot of miles in 24 hours. This year I suspect that it will take a really fast 17 laps (maybe even 18 laps) to win it. Chris Eatough, 6x 24 Hour Solo World Champion is supposed to show up this year to dish out some pain. All that being said, I may have just given you the impression that I'm going to win. Not the case. I'm a realist, sort of, and I know I'm not at the same level as the professional riders who are fortunate enough do this for a living. I am also a competitor though and it is mountain biking. So you never know what might happen over the course of a race, especially a 24 hour race. For me, this is a race to test myself, to come face to face with my soul, to push myself (physically and mentally) to what I think might be the limit...and then keep going.
8 weeks until race day (Oct.13-14, 2007).
On a side note, I have to thank my wife Sharon for helping me pull the trigger on the race. You Rock!
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt
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