07.15.05 - tinkers 12 hour and a nut case

tinkers 12 hour:
found an event on his blog referencing a 12 hour on october first. hmm... google found me here:

http://www.tmr-unlimited.com/events.html

looks to be an event at bootleg canyon (home of interbikes demo days and one cool little mountain bike park). race info not up yet as they had to switch venues to bootleg canyon due to some wildfires destroying some of the original venues trails. looks interestingly convenient as i will be out there for interbike anyway, dan the man will be there too, and all my sponsors will be in town as well to maybe help with support. but - i have to think of georgia too on october 15th and the nevada heat as well....

regarding a nut case, got this from beth at the shop:

..... I thought of you and wanted to kid you about your training when I saw this article in VeloNews about the Slovenian soldier who won RAAM in 9 days/8 hours. There is this quote from him about how the training must be suffering and the hardest part is the sleep deprevation, so part of his training is doing a 24 hour race, not sleeping and then riding the next day and not sleeping and then riding the NEXT day and not sleeping -- 3 days of riding with no sleep.

so for all you enduro freaks out there - we have just been topped by a RAAM freakazoid. (maybe he should try RED BULL!)

and..

my mistake on the 101 - yes, there is neutral support at designated areas. what i meant to say was that you could not have your own support giving handups, helping you in any way, etc. support will be at the stops with at least water and some assortment of goodies.

gotta run - microsoft SQL reading to do! fun, fun.

sologoat out.