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th 17th 11 th Annual 14 April 2008 Wilderness Road Ride Annual 2008 Mountains of Misery May 24-25, 2008 The New River Valley, Virginia Two days of cycling adventure in the mountains of Southwest Virginia A scenic tour of the New River Valley with four choices of routes ranging from a family-friendly 14-mile option to a 57-mile challenge for the fittest athlete. A challenging day of climbing in the mountains. Your choice of two routes, a 100 mile option with 10,000 feet of climbing or, for the truly hardy, a 125 mile route with 13,000 feet of climbing. For more information, call 540-552-9339 or visit our website at www.cyclingdoubleheader.com TRADING continued from p.13 “On race day I was really on. I was riding as good as I can ride. I don’t care if it was 100 percent fire roads. I was going to be hard to beat. I attacked like hell from the start. I rode the first 30 miles at the front, just me and two others. Floyd was about a minute back. I attacked again at the 30 mile mark hoping Floyd wouldn’t be able to bridge back to the front. I ended up riding solo for the final 70 miles!” Schalk’s time of seven hours, five minutes, set a new course record by 10 minutes. “After the race, Floyd came up and congratulated me and shook my hand. He ducked out pretty quickly.” Schalk knows his skills are improving every year and intends to compete for the coming few years. He recognizes that his strength is more as an ultra-endurance racer than in cross country. This year he intends to do more 100 mile events, and defend the BC stage race. “I’m just going to see how it goes. I’m still doing a little bit of engineering work for (a few) West Coast companies (this past winter designing a canopy for a high rise office building going up in downtown San Francisco). “It’s important for me to keep my mind sharp and keep my foot in the other world. I can’t believe I’m going to say this in public, but you know how it’s always greener on the other side, and I’m sure people who have office jobs are always thinking how cool to be able to ride your bike for a living, but as much as I like mountain biking, on those really tough days, when you have a killer five or six hour ride in freezing rain, the wind blowing and nothing feels right, I dream of sitting in a nice warm cubicle, peering into that computer screen and sipping coffee. I can tell you I didn’t necessarily see that happening when I was sitting in that cube working as an engineer.” Where does he see himself in five, or ten years? “I have no idea. But I can assure you that whatever it is, I’ll be in it 100 percent. When I decide to do something I give it everything.”
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