Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Hoy Polloi

So Chris Hoy jumped head-first into the hurt-box in Bolivia a few days ago. The guy already has the sea-level world kilo record, but he wanted the absolute record that frenchie Arnaud Tournaut holds of 58.875 at altitude. 15,000 feet of hot, nasty altitude.

After 2 attempts he missed by .05 seconds. Draaaag. Train for years, dedicate your life to a dying niche of the sport, spend a few months doing intervals in a hyperbaric chamber, fly to La Paz, put your one-directional front wheel on backwards and miss the record by a hair.

That's a lovely little what if to think about for the rest of your life.

DT

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmnO80eS7TY
Check out his start!