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By baselbutt on 5/22/2007  Me on or around lap 16ish of 26 of the 2007 North Pole Bike Extreme - I had stopped trying to use the gears or brakes miles ago... 26 of the hardest miles of my LIFE! |
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Freezin' my @$$ off! North Pole Bike Extreme 2007
North Pole Bike Extreme - pre-race (I was asleep in my tent)
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By baselbutt on 4/24/2007  This picture was taken just before the start of the inaugural North Pole Bike Extreme just a few weeks ago... |
Maybe alarm clocks aren't overrated - North Pole Bike Extreme
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By baselbutt on 4/19/2007 on baselbutt's blog
Just under 24 hours removed from my Podcast interview with Neal at YourRunning.com where I swear up and down that I’m not going to fall asleep and risk having to rush from my bed to the bike, I find myself running around my sleeping tent like a crazed madman trying to find the clothes I thought I had layed out all nice and orderly just a few hours before. It was exactly like the feeling when you oversleep and need to be at the airport 5 minutes ago. My mind was racing and I couldn’t think straight. Meanwhile, Richard is standing in the doorway saying ”just put on anything! The race is about to start!” - he wasn’t helping things.. |
North Pole Bike Extreme
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By baselbutt on 4/10/2007  Right after finishing the first ever bike race held at the North Pole.... and lord knows I could have used a Joby!!!!!!! P.S. Yes, those are bare hands grasping a bike that's been subject to -25 degrees for over 36 hours.. |
Post-North Pole interview with biker/runner Bobby Bostic
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By Steve Outing on 4/9/2007 on Steve Outing's blog Bobby Bostic completed both the North Pole Marathon AND the first-ever mountain bike race at the North Pole over the weekend. He may be the first person to have endo'ed at the pole. Now he's hanging out in Longyearbyen, Norway. He'll be posting pictures and stories about his experience in the coming days. Meantime, I got on Skype with him this morning (well, my morning, his evening) just before the awards ceremony. Here's our conversation (which is about the running event as well as the bike race): Steve says: Glad you made it back! How was it? |
Bobby Bostic's audio report after North Pole mountain bike race
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By yourmtb on 4/7/2007 on yourmtb's blog Live from the North Pole via satellite phone, here's Bobby Bostic's first account of his polar adventure this weekend. He completed the North Pole Marathon (foot race) in one minute over 5 hours; took a snooze; then rode a 26.2-mile bike race (the first bike competition held at the North Pole)! Wow. ... Here's his first short audio report. (He sounds tired. Wouldn't you be?!) As he mentions in his report, he's got his sat phone and welcomes calls at the North Pole. (He'll be there through Sunday, April 8.) The number is 011 8816 4145 8659 ... Disclaimer: You'll be billed for the call and it isn't cheap, so be extra sure you want to chat with him! |
Pinch me!!!
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By baselbutt on 4/6/2007 on baselbutt's blog
Editor's note: Bobby Bostic, aka Baselbutt, is currently on his way to the North Pole, where he's running a marathon and riding in a mountain bike race. Here's a report he filed earlier today on YourRunning.com. While some of his report is about the marathon, he also talks about the bike race. Over to you, Iceman... There's something to be said about the calm before the storm. I have to say that as fast as the last two months have flown by, the last 12 hours have gone by glacially slow (and that's not because I'm surrounded by glaciers).. My body hasn't adjusted to the time difference (and probably won't). I was up at 3am yesterday morning (Thursday) and just before 4am this morning. The sleep I have got has been excellent - just limited - but sufficient I think. Everyone seems tired and generally ready to get going with the race. |
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Ready to race at the North Pole
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By yourmtb on 4/6/2007  Bobby Bostic is at the North Pole this weekend to run a marathon. But he's also going to compete against 13 other riders in the first-ever mountain bike race at the pole. When the running marathon is done, riders will cover 26.2 miles (same distance as the foot runners) in a loop course. Here's Bobby in Longyearbyen, Norway, trying out the Crescent mountain bike that he'll be using for the race. It features tires with little steel spikes. Bobby is running the North Pole Marathon because he was the winner of a contest by YourRunning.com (sister site of YourMTB.com) to give away an entry to the event. |
North Pole-worthy mountain bike
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By yourmtb on 4/6/2007  Bobby Bostic will be riding this Crescent mountain bike at the North Pole on April 7, competing against 13 other riders in what apparently is the first mountain bike race held at the pole. In this shot Bobby is in Longyearbyen, Norway, prior to catching his flight to the pole, alongside Crescent's owner. |
A bike race at the North Pole: Sign up now
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By Steve Outing on 2/20/2007 on Steve Outing's blog
What should we call this? Is it cyclo-cross? A mountain bike race? It's certainly not a road race. Definitely call it historic. I just learned that you can now sign up for a 2008 bike race at the North Pole. It will happen in April 2008, and participating racers will do 26.2 miles on a loop course at the geographic North Pole. This will not be the first bike race at the pole, but maybe you still could call it that. The deal is that Richard Donovan, who organizes the annual North Pole Marathon for runners, is taking seven bikes and bikers to the pole this April, where they'll do a trial bike race on the same course as the runners and for the same length -- to see if this is feasible. |
