He has overcome a lot of serious issues and has emerged a real winner.
If you read his post from back in Chama (the cyclocomputer saga) he said it was about 50 miles back to the trail.
I am not sure why this didn't occur to me at the time, but that was a phenomenon called "Temporal Distortion."
When the human mind is under severe stress, we tend to lose our sense of the dimensions and magnitudes of space and time. People who have been in an auto accident (who can remember it as taking a half hour to finish the collision), or in a war zone, or pilots who have ejected out of a fighter (and repeatedly pulled the ejection handle thinking the seat isn't working - even though the ejection was nearly instantaneous, the pilot perceived it as taking forever - or not working at all) have described this exact thing.
Felix was obviously under a huge amount of stress - understandably so - and he overcame it. He solved his problems and was able to move on.
Felix has overcome a lot
Felix has done a magnificent job.
He has overcome a lot of serious issues and has emerged a real winner.
If you read his post from back in Chama (the cyclocomputer saga) he said it was about 50 miles back to the trail.
I am not sure why this didn't occur to me at the time, but that was a phenomenon called "Temporal Distortion."
When the human mind is under severe stress, we tend to lose our sense of the dimensions and magnitudes of space and time. People who have been in an auto accident (who can remember it as taking a half hour to finish the collision), or in a war zone, or pilots who have ejected out of a fighter (and repeatedly pulled the ejection handle thinking the seat isn't working - even though the ejection was nearly instantaneous, the pilot perceived it as taking forever - or not working at all) have described this exact thing.
Felix was obviously under a huge amount of stress - understandably so - and he overcame it. He solved his problems and was able to move on.
That's a sign of a true winner.
Congrats Felix. You are most definitely THE MAN!