2010年12月17日星期五

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I’ve always been drawn to sports that are on the fringe; the past several years, I’ve started competing in events that require as much mental toughness as they do physical training. My first visits to the podium were as a national-level Junior replica Breitling Professional Skyracer watches Olympic racewalker. More recently I was a surprisingly fast, albeit totally sloppy, indoor rower. In 2006, I came off the couch to place 4th in the World Cow Chip Tossing Championships in Beaver, Oklahoma. Around the same time, I also bought my first road bike. My first-ever road race was that fall: a 206-miler that started in Logan, Utah and ended in Teton Village, Wyoming (LOTOJA).

I was in the saddle for 10 hours and 32 minutes. That’s the day I trace my endurance event addiction to.What is 24 Hours of Sunlight?It’s a race where you first ascend a closed, groomed run at the Sunlight Ski Area – racers can use skis, snowshoes, splitboards, yak trax, pretty much whatever they want –then descend another groomed, replica Breitling Aeromarine Chrono Aven watches closed run. And you do this for 24 hours. You can do it solo, as a team of two (which is a relay; you’re not both going together the whole 24 hours), a team of four or a team of five. Most racers opt for randonee equipment. As far as I know, it’s the only endurance randonee race in the country.Why the 24 Hours of Sunlight? And why solo?This isn’t my first Sunlight experience. In 2007, freshly diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, I learned about the race because it benefited a Denver-based MS Center. I thought it would be cool if someone with MS actually did the race. That year I had no interest in doing it solo though. My husband, Brian Harder, and myself signed up for the duo category. (Our team name?

You can sleep when you’re dead.) We won. With the exception of a few 3 a.m. intestinal issues, I had fun. As soon as it was over though, I realized I had had too much fun. I’m sorry, but 24-hour races aren’t supposed to be fun. And I looked at the stats I replica Breitling Avenger Seawol watches had put up in about 12 hours of skinning -- just under 22,000 vertical feet – and figured with another 12 hours, I could easily get another 11k. And 33,000-feet was the world record.Do you just want to set the world record this year?No. I’d like to raise it a substantial amount. I’d love to get it up near 37,000 feet. The record on the men’s side is 51,000-some-feet.

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