By Eric Bruntjen
The Cordillera is the literary magazine of Divide Racing. among those pages you will discover tales of pageant, drama and humor which can purely come from The Divide: A racecourse stretching from border to frame, from desolate tract to mountain and middle to middle. you are going to experience besides decided athletes as they negotiate snow coated peaks within the Rockies and an alkaline barren region around the nice Basin. you'll meet an artist who questions his personal lifestyles in New Mexico, a tender racer facing bad judgements in Montana and a proficient woman rider who discovers hidden pleasure at the Fourth of July. you'll be taken care of to the lengthy and infrequently tragic heritage of bicycles at the Divide and a lot more. those are the tales of The Divide and the folk who race there.All proceeds from this quantity visit gain the journey biking organization.
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Take, for example, the Iditasport race in Alaska (I’ve forgotten the year): I was going over Rainy Pass, it was insanely cold, the wind was screaming, it was a complete whiteout, the trail was impossible to find. There was no one to help me, no one to look for me; it was the most alone I have ever felt. Live or die, it was up to me. There was no one else to blame. John Stamstad in 2009. Copyright Aaron Teasdale It took every single element of my soul to get through that, I had to be perfect; I had to concentrate like never before.
As I continued to slowly crank the pedals through my vibrant new world, drooling and sagging all over my bike frame, I was a tad bit horrified when I looked into the woods and saw a vision of the Michelin Man flitting about in the trees. He was amazingly agile for his size, and he easily kept pace with me, stopping once in awhile to peek coyly at me from behind a gnarled branch. "Screw you, Michelin Man! " I wanted to scream, but I could only manage a defiant whimper. I knew I would not make it back home, so I tried to board a Greyhound bus back to Deer Park, where I lived.
It was my only reason for existing and everything I did and thought about revolved around that one goal for a more than a decade. Back then I didn’t know why I was consumed with extreme challenges, only that I had to do it and that I loved every single second of it. With GDMBR I couldn’t imagine anything harder than riding nonstop for 2500 miles on dirt. It was a revelation but I didn’t know exactly why. Growing older, I realized that the beauty of the GDMBR, or any long trail for that matter, has nothing to do with the route, has nothing to with your bike, your gear, your food.