New Who To Bet On To Rhythm Out The Record, Win The Race, In Addition To Dominate The Field... The Adult Woman That Biked 2100 Miles To Popular Off To The 2800 Mile Race. She Was But Getting Warmed Up. You Lot Ameliorate Non Bet Against Her.
Not many people who don't ride bikes for a living, or for long distances - similar across continents - convey heard of the people that do. Okay, we've all heard of Lance Armstrong, but you lot may already take in where I'm going alongside this... he doesn't ride for distance, he rides to win the Tour de France.
There are to a greater extent than or less people who somehow tin afford to non convey a job, as well as perchance it's because they don't convey to pay rent, because they never slumber inwards a bedroom... they slumber on the roadside, inwards parks, or where e'er they are when they realize they are likewise wiped out to proceed biking.
Among them, is Lael Wilcox, as well as to read her spider web log is to take in that the riders know each other, they run across upward on the roads sometime, inwards this province or other ones, as well as to a greater extent than or less are simply good known amid the bikers that read biking magazines instead of Hot Rod, Rodders Journal, Automobile, etc.
Well, I was blown away to read that Lael rode TO the race from Canada to Mexico, a 2800 mile amateur race that I've solely simply learned of, the Tour Divide. Just how damn astonishing is it to ride 2100 miles to acquire to the start of a wheel race? Blows my mind. But, going dorsum to what I said earlier, solely because I had no take in that all she seems to create inwards this basis is ride a bike. Everywhere. For the final ix years she's biked all over the planet. Europe, the middle East, Canada, America, Africa etc etc. So, for her, getting to the race was a thing that didn't fifty-fifty matter, it was simply what was needed.
You tin read her article nearly the race https://laelwilcox.com/2015/09/12/tour-divide-story/ but she doesn't follow it upward alongside remarks nearly crushing the previous record, past times two days, or what she did after... the side past times side entry inwards her spider web log is her heading out on to a greater extent than or less other ride.
But Outside Magazine did a storey on her https://www.outsideonline.com/1997471/how-lael-wilcox-crushed-tour-divide
as well as that was inwards 2015.
Who knew, she also runs for fun as well as did this REI video which actually covers a LOT similar the Tour Divide
For 2016, she rode the Trans Am (cross America) from Astoria Washington to Yorktown Virginia, a 4400 mile race.... as well as she won it. I didn't categorize that every bit "she won the women's category" no... she WON the WHOLE DAMN THING. And broke the tape for doing it the fastest.
She's the starting fourth dimension American to win it, as well as she's the 1st adult woman to win it. https://cyclingtips.com/2016/06/trans-am-lael-wilcox-wins-smashes-womens-record/ https://www.facebook.com/TransAmBikeRace/
Why isn't she competing inwards the Olympics? The Tour de France? Hell if I know.
For comparing to the worlds biggest wheel race, the Tour de France
