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Challenge of the DAMn-ed: 242 miles, 24 hours to bike across Minnesota (www.mprnews.org)

submitted 3 months ago by fpslem to c/bicycling

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Anthony Williams stepped off his bicycle late Saturday morning and let out a soft groan as he sank into a red folding camp chair on the side of a gravel road. A fine layer of brown dust covered him, from his pink helmet all the way down to his patched, black leggings.

Someone handed him a paper plate with two tortillas filled with peanut butter and honey. He slowly took several bites then paused, too exhausted to notice the honey dripping onto his lap.

“I’m having a really hard time staying awake,” he said.

The 25-year-old St. Paul man had just bicycled 124 miles in roughly nine hours — but he was only halfway to the finish of The Day Across Minnesota, a 242-mile ultra-endurance cycling race known as “The DAMn.”

The goal is pretty straightforward: Push off at midnight from Gary, S.D., a hamlet on Minnesota’s western border, and pedal to Hager City, Wis., just across the Mississippi River from Red Wing, Minn., before midnight strikes again.

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[–] fpslem 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I know, part of me thinks I'm still 20 years old and I think, "hey, maybe I could train up and do that!" And then my back aches from just doing housework and I snap painfully back to reality!