Quote Originally Posted by Wahine View Post
I actually bask in the glory of the "You are absolutely effing insane" look. In fact I called up an ultra endurance cycling friend of mine tonight just so that he could tell me how crazy I am for swimming in a 56 deg river.... now who's crazier me or him? (he's signed up to ride 538 miles with 40000 feet of climbing in under 48 hours)
56 isn't too insane... that might just be "crazy, but I know it's crazy"

538 miles with 40,000 feet of climbing.... that's "I'm so crazy I don't know I'm crazy anymore"

The one thing I've learned is to not underestimate what you can teach your body to do. I was looking at pictures of the Giro d'Italia (a local cyclist is doing it as an amateur) and thinking "well, if you trained for it... I guess it would be possible." Other people think "HOLY CRAP that's nuts."

It's all relative, right?

Maybe after I've gone through this once, I'll enjoy the shock factor next time (if there is a next time ). Sometimes when we eat dinner out on Sundays and I order something huge and then finish it all with dessert while my husband gets a to go box, I get "the look"... I look forward to touring all those places with a big freaking "IRON COLBY" sign after it's over.