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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,773
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Originally Posted by herr_oberst
I thought that the reason it was in the news is that there were multiple finishers this year, where in years past, it would be unusual to even have one participant finishing before the 60 hour time limit.
"The purity of the event" is kind of a funny sentiment for a physical test that makes grown men cry like babies. It's a funny world where individuals can endure harder and harder feats of mind over body but as a species (especially males) our threshold for any discomfort continues trending lower.
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Apparently, no finishers since 2017 until the most recent. It's crazy.
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'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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