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Snowboarding Dude
After 10 years living in Boulder I decided to bite the bullet and turn into a snowboarding junkie. Debit card at hand and a lot of PowPow attitude later I’m the proud owner of a snowboard and all the equipment. I have to admit, I thought mountain biking in Colorado was the best thing to do here … hands down to snowboarding.
Real Heroes – Team Hoyt
The other day I was having my coffee in the morning and was touched by this beautiful story of a real hero. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
(From teamhoyt.com website) —
“Dick and Rick Hoyt are a father-and-son team from Massachusetts who together compete just about continuously in marathon races. And if they’re not in a marathon they are in a triathlon — that daunting, almost superhuman, combination of 26.2 miles of running, 112 miles of bicycling, and 2.4 miles of swimming. Together they have climbed mountains, and once trekked 3,735 miles across America.
It’s a remarkable record of exertion — all the more so when you consider that Rick can’t walk or talk. “