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Jester
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 Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 9:25 am |
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Here's a link to my friends face book page he wull be ironman the baja 2014. Leaving today. Geoff will be updating the facebook page they used last year with info on the trip. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mike-and ... 29?fref=ts
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 10:09 am |
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You gotta be fast and have big cajones to run that race. Hope he does well. I figure if I ran it as fast as I normally dare to ride it would take me about 35-40 hours to run it assuming no problems - which is back of the pack for sure (fast bikes do it in 16 to 18 hours, most finish in less than 30).
He probably already knows this, but I hear the locals make "traps" on the race route for fun. They'll dig a big pit or something just around a corner or over a hump so you can't see it coming. Then they sit back and watch the carnage.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 6:43 pm |
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Don't do Facebook! Any way you can keep the antis up to speed on your Pisano's progress?
Carnage? WTF, how many get hurt bad?
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 7:26 pm |
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Baja is on my bucket list, running it with a team would be epic, the Ironman is pretty extreme.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 7:53 pm |
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That is sad that they would dig pits and hurt riders, hope that isn't true.It would sure be be a speed killer for me, you could never relax a bit while riding.
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calltrex
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 1:36 am |
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they cancelled some other races because racers were getting shot at
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 5:02 am |
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When the Dakar Rally was in Africa is was getting pretty bad with the warlords and extremists so it was moved to South America in 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakar_Rally
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Jester
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 12:54 pm |
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this is not his first race. he has been a volunteer for a number of years before he decided to actualy race.
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 9:16 pm |
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Doug
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 6:53 pm |
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