There I was at the top of one of the slopes of Peak-n-Peak, New York. I'm sure it wasn't the highest point on the range, but by far it was the highest starting point I'd ever tried.
 
Only 10 months earlier I was on the bunny slope at Brandy wine ski resort (Ohio). I had no business being on that hill.

The view was amazing. An expanse I'd never witnessed before. I had started out earlier in the day with minor grades. As my confidence built with each succession of not killing myself on the w...
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10K run, 25k bike, 10k run- back in the day this was called a biathlon.

The year was 1991 (?).
 
Bedford, Ohio.
 
My brother Dennis was there and I'm pretty sure it was the only race we've been at together  that he wasn't a participant. So I had the pressure of doing a good job for my little bro. I'd always been a avid runner (now a jogger) but I had never trained on a bike, at ANY distance. The only prep I did for this race was at the most a 8 mile jaunt. Hell I didn't even own a bike, I had to ...
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It's a good thing that James was ahead of me while driving separate cars to the Fremont indoor 10k race. He knew (basically) where we were headed and I (more than basically) had no idea where we were. It had warmed up a bit from the previous day but the roads still had some drifts that I was uncomfortable driving at 125 mph, Jim at the other end of the spectrum had no problem maneuvering his slug bug in this condition. I'm the guy on the freeway that you yell "you drive like you've never seen...
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When James approached us with a INDOOR 10k race, who didn't actually think he was kidding at first. Sure an indoor 10k race, yeah riiiggght! James, if you need the attention just ask us to meet you at your local track and we'd be more than happy to crump with you a tad.

So then I thought, well maybe he's not joking around and I went ahead and searched for the event on the Internet. A funny thing happened. My computer didn't explode. I thought for sure that after I hit search for " Freemont Oh...
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