[Book Reviews] [Sociology] More on "out there"

Mar 02, 2016 13:00

I recently finished Frozen Ed Furtaw's "Tales From Out There: The Barkley Marathons, The World's Toughest Trail Race", and near the end there was a description of a sleep-deprived ultrarunner who had an experience that I howled my way through... I suspect that many folks who have similarly pushed their limits and experienced that state of " ( Read more... )

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randomdreams March 3 2016, 05:42:03 UTC
The last 20 miles of the 2013 denver century, where I was experiencing heat stroke, were close to that, although I was at least making valid "I can/can't keep going" decisions on a regular basis. I had pretty much lost track of WHY I was making those decisions, though. Glad I had someone riding with me.
Likewise, I went on a mountain bike ride in about 1983 where we started out at 85 degrees, so I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt, and not being totally foolish, took a windbreaker, and halfway into the ride, two hours later, a howling storm dropped that to sub-freezing and heavy snow and we had to walk out, and I was sufficiently hypothermic I was no longer able to speak coherently, apparently. I don't actually remember most of that. But again there were other people along who weren't in quite as dire conditions, and they managed to keep everything going. When that started, I do remember a serious lack of understanding about why we were still walking, when we had bikes. It didn't occur to me that we couldn't actually ride in those conditions.

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