In this Issue:
• Quote for the Day
• Car-Free Day Tomorrow
• Furnace Creek 508: Last Call!
• Death Valley Century Video Blog
• Badwater Crewing Video
• Lots of Great New Logos
• Forty Days and Forty Nights
• Order your 2008 AdventureCORPS gear
• And Now For Something Completely Different
QUOTE FOR THE DAY"Don’t you dare waste a minute!" - Sandy Sanders, in reference to life (pictured at left)
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CAR-FREE EARTH DAY IN LA AND BEYOND
Wherever you live and work, why not leave the car at home tomorrow and ride a bike to work, or use public transit, or at the very least carpool? It's going to be Earth Day: let's celebrate!
In Los Angeles, where car has historically been king but bicycles are gaining ground, tomorrow will be a car-free day and even part of the legendary freeway, I mean street, known as Wilshire Blvd will be closed to cars!
Tuesday, April 22nd,10am-5pm
Wilshire Center Earth Day/Car Free Day
Wilshire Boulevard will be closed between Western and Harvard. The LA County Bicycle Coalition will be providing free and convenient Bike Valet service between Harvard and Hobart. More info:
http://www.wilshirecenter.com/earthday
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FURNACE CREEK 508 2008: LAST CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!
The 25th Anniversary Furnace Creek 508 will be held October 4-6, 2008. The application will go off-line tomorrow, so if you hope to compete in The 508 this year, PLEASE apply TODAY! (And to those of you who have sent in a RECORD NUMBER of applications, thank you!) Info:
http://www.the508.com/entry/index.html
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VIDEO BLOGGER PRESENTS HIS FINAL 105 MILE VIDEO BLOG
Paul Fahey spent 105 days chronicling his efforts to prepare for, and ride, the 105-mile Spring Death Valley Century and Double Century. His final video blog, featuring the event itself, is online now:
http://105daysto105miles.wordpress.com/
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BADWATER CREWING VIDEO
Jaqueline Florine will be a rookie entrant in the 2008 Badwater Ultramarathon in July, but she's been learning the ropes on support crews at The World's Toughest Foot Race the past few years. Here's a short, but relly excellent, video with some of her super secret squirrel tips on how be a world-class crew member:
http://leteton.blogspot.com/2008/04/crewing-badwater-runner.html
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FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS
By Audrey Adler
It was the winter of 1998. Los Angeles.
I had just completed my first series of triathlons the previous summer and eagerly anticipated an off season filled with outdoor training opportunities, sowing the seeds of fitness for the spring season's new and improved personal best. Winter in LA, you must visualize, meant that a light wind jacket and arm warmers may be necessary for the first hour of an early morning ride! To every outdoor athlete's chagrin (by the way, in Los Angeles, anyone with two legs and a pair of Air Max is an "athlete") predictions of the terroristic storm El NINO' promised to keep all at bay out of the thrashing angry open waters, off the flooded and avalanched coastal stretches of breathtaking infinite Highway 1, out of the sinuous bowels of the Santa Monica Mountains' single track. Reduced to pumping iron in the acrid arena we call a gym, and lounging around the fireplace darning those not-yet-ready-to-trash cycling socks, I relented to the omnipotent forces of Mother Nature. Full story:
http://www.xo-1.org
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GREAT NEW ARTWORK FOR DEATH VALLEY CUP, CORPScamp, AND MORE
We want to thank Bill Oetinger, a super cyclist and great guy who is also a superb graphic artist, for his efforts in creating new artwork for several of our events and programs. In the past year, Bill has created new logos for the following:
CORPScamp Death Valley
http://www.adventurecorps.com/corpscamp/index.html
DEATH VALLEY CUP
http://www.badwater.com/dvcup.html
BADWATER WORLD CUP
http://www.badwater.com/bad135/index.html
3-SPEED ADVENTURE SOCIETY
http://www.3sa.com
ROUGH RIDERS
http://www.xo-1.org
If you’d like to see more of Bill's work, or contact him for fulfillment of your artistic needs, click here:
http://www.adventurevelo.com/portfolio.html
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NEW 2008 ADVENTURECORPS GEAR
Check out our new Death Valley jersey, Rough Riders jersey, Furnace Creek 508 jersey, Furnace Creek 508 vest, and AdventureCORPS arm warmers here:
http://www.adventurecorps.com/store/2008/index.html
Order form:
http://www.adventurecorps.com/store/2008/2008GearForm.pdf
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AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
Training for either Badwater Ultramarathon, Furnace Creek 508, or both requires the ability to make death-defying leaps of faith, to tiptoe through danger zones with the dexterity of a ballerina, and to demonstrate that you're, well, not like other people. Some people go to great lengths to prepare this type of samurai-like focus. Here's one of them, in a video diary entry:
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1438490562
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Thanks for your support and participation, everyone! We look forward to seeing you out there soon!
Yours in sport,
Chris Kostman
Chief Adventure Officer and Race Director
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