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2007 Assault on Mt. Mitchell
The following account was submitted by the Good Doctor… Spartanburg, SC to the top of Mt. Mitchell, NC, 102 miles and 11,000 feet of climbing to the highest elevation East of the Mississippi. You may ask yourself “Why participate in such a masochistic event?”. It’s an honest question and one…
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2007 3 Mountain Madness: The Pain is Temporary
Der Jan, Chum, and Red were seen on the 3 Mountain Madness course on Saturday. The blistering pace from the get-go left Red dieseling in the mid-pack. Knocks and pings. He helped a group of Rocky River cyclists chase up, but when he got to the rollers north of Sauratown,…
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Three Mountain Madness: Come on big guy!
I’m really getting tired of it. All the way up Pilot Mountain during the 2005 Three Mountain Metric, I got it. “Come on big guy!” “You can do it big guy!” “Your almost there big guy!” I appreciate their enthusiasm, but whether you’re 17 stone climbing a mountain or 11…
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Orders of the Church: Solemn Oaths and Vows
After 23 years as a legal adult, I was finally summoned for Jury Duty. Crammed into a room with barely enough space to get out of your seat, we were witnessing industrialized justice — the finely tuned mechanism of juris prudence American style. After the introduction by the juror room…
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"It’s the end of the world as we know it…."
I went to my daughter’s middle school chorus concert last week, and I’m still shaking. The numbers of kids singing was impressive, and their attempt in singing Bach was commendable. The audience gathered to listen was atrocious. No thanks to American Idol, our attempts to appreciate music borders on the…
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