Mike,
It makes me sad to hear this, but that's maybe a little selfish- seems there's a lot that can be done with nutrition & rest but you know your own experience and the decisions you have to make better than anyone out here on the web.
While we're out here, hungry for more reports from the edge, you have undoubtedly been learning things about yourself that could even change your life- and I understand that can come at any time on the trail, not necessarily in Antelope Wells. We have to remind ourselves that the journey IS the destination...
I know Mary liked riding with you, hopefully you'll have a chance to read through the blogs & see she's somewhere behind you working her way back up to full strength. I think that companionship early in the race will pay dividends later.
Now you can work on the film- you can tell the story that is the Tour Divide (or the Tour d' vida as I have come to know it). I can't begin to guess what all you guys are capturing on film, but I do know it should be told. You guys have all been making a real, positive difference out there- by way of this race blog & the SPOT tracking you guys have touched far outside what would have otherwise been a small circle of bike nuts. I know this because I've seen the emails & I get the phone calls- this is huge. Your film- no matter the focus on the riding or the towns or the lifestyles in either- will carry the torch ever further into the world. And that is a noble cause indeed.
Journey is the destination
Mike,
It makes me sad to hear this, but that's maybe a little selfish- seems there's a lot that can be done with nutrition & rest but you know your own experience and the decisions you have to make better than anyone out here on the web.
While we're out here, hungry for more reports from the edge, you have undoubtedly been learning things about yourself that could even change your life- and I understand that can come at any time on the trail, not necessarily in Antelope Wells. We have to remind ourselves that the journey IS the destination...
I know Mary liked riding with you, hopefully you'll have a chance to read through the blogs & see she's somewhere behind you working her way back up to full strength. I think that companionship early in the race will pay dividends later.
Now you can work on the film- you can tell the story that is the Tour Divide (or the Tour d' vida as I have come to know it). I can't begin to guess what all you guys are capturing on film, but I do know it should be told. You guys have all been making a real, positive difference out there- by way of this race blog & the SPOT tracking you guys have touched far outside what would have otherwise been a small circle of bike nuts. I know this because I've seen the emails & I get the phone calls- this is huge. Your film- no matter the focus on the riding or the towns or the lifestyles in either- will carry the torch ever further into the world. And that is a noble cause indeed.
-Brendan