Originally Posted by
WheresWaldo
The first time you ride Mitchell you hurt, you cry but just the fact that you will finish is enough to keep you going and you complete the ride. The second time you ride you hurt, you cry, you curse yourself for ever doing something so stupid in your life.
I won't argue with that. Assuming I do indeed buy another person's number, this year will be my 3rd consecutive Mt. Mitchell. After last year's ride I was absolutely ecstatic (having reached a goal I set for myself of finishing in the top 20), but since then I've spent lots of time what-if-ing and wondering if I might have done even a bit better if I'd just done this, that, and the other.
Of course right now I'm horribly out of shape and so I won't have any such finishing goal for 2008.
--Steve