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"Race on [Rebecca Rusch]'s team?" he says. "I should have said no, because I haven't been doing that kind of racing. But I'm not going to say no to a chance to race with Rebecca Rusch. She's a stud."
"We've all been trying to figure out where it's gonna go, how the course will get us from the ocean to the Otter [at Laguna Seca]," Rusch says, "what kinds of bikes to use, what tires will be best. You try to guess and figure it out and usually you're wrong."He even volunteered "a game plan to assure success" that includes items like "We'll pummel anyone that whines" and a "promise [for] the time of your life while losing at least 5 lbs." He is careful to include one key strategy right at the top, though: "I will stand by your decision to have Rebecca carry all the gear."See the full content of this document
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Rebecca Rusch was deep in the insect-infested jungles of Borneo when the cockroaches began to crawl all over her. Or so she thought. Four days spent hiking, running, kayaking and climbing-on two hours of sleep a night-had left her hallucinating.
"I tried to take vitamins during the race," she recalls. "I was dumping out vitamins in my hand and all of a sudden they became cockr...See the full content of this document
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