As she pedaled into the 100-mile checkpoint on her bicycle, Wendy Davis, 44, asked the question on everyone’s mind: who turned the wind on? For much of the previous 50 miles, she and hundreds of other cyclists had battled the stiff gusts that blow across the Kansas plains. She was halfway through the Dirty Kanza 200, a 200-mile race on the rarely maintained back roads of the state’s rugged Flint Hills. Why ride 200 miles over crunching gravel, her noncyclist friends asked. “Because I can,” she answered. nytimes/2013/06/12/sports/wind-cant-stop-cyclings-gravel-grinders-in-the-dirty-kanza.html
Posted on: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:34:11 +0000
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