His name is Lance. He came back from cancer to win what most people consider the hardest race in his sport. Over and over again, breaking records as he went. No, not that guy. I'm talking about Lance Mackey, and the man is a true badass. This means nothing to most people, but he twice won the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod in the same year. Twice. No one had ever done that before and he comes along and does it back to back. Hardly anyone even tries to enter both races, for crying out loud!
He also lives in what most people would consider abject poverty so he can do his sport, not living the high life courtesy of Nike, Trek and whatever that "tired of being tired" drink the other Lance is selling me on every webpage.
But, I digress, both Lances are awesome.
Here are a couple videos about Mackey:
In other news, I just sat through a meeting for over an hour with everyone else eating pepperoni pizza and just drank water.
UPDATE: Even better video with angry Lance about to win his second Iditarod here.
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with only a moment, read your post and as always-inspired. Not only with the intro of Lance, but with your other news...
ReplyDeleteHad the chance to spend some time with a good friend this morning-and while describing someone he did not quiet get at first OR said otherwise, was still evolving/developing, he now calls said person NAME 2.0. Thought that was sort of relevant ( and funny for us ) as we go through this PCP program.
Like the idea of thinking of all of becoming our selves but only more evolved and being true to self ( like Lance 2 )
PS-not lost on me, that by now, could have watched the video. Be back later...