The Oktoberfest Week 2: Win The Sufferfest’s ‘A Very Dark Place’
Last week we offered you the chance to win a copy of The Sufferfest’s A Very Dark Place by proving to us just how big a loser you are. To my dismay it transpired that a large proportion of this blog’s readership qualified for the prize – I’m embarrassed to be associated with so many inadequates, incompetents, and even in one particularly unpleasant case, an incontinent.
The ‘winner’ of last week’s competition will be announced with reluctant fanfare in the next couple of days, and with it a selection of the best of the worst of your cycling failures. But for this week’s competition we’ll be rewarding those of a more heroic nature…
Rémy Di Grégorio survives the cold, wet and slippery roads to win solo during Paris-Nice 2011. See the review of A Very Dark Place here.
We want you to show us you have what it takes to really suffer. What’s the most epic ride you’ve undertaken… in the cold… and wet… with just a banana in your back pocket for sustenance? Tell us of the time you crossed the finish line destroyed by fatigue, and bloodied by crashes. Horrify us with the grizzly details – the oozing saddle sores, frostbitten toes and the mental anguish. We want to know A Very Dark Place isn’t going to be wasted on someone too afraid to intrepidly explore deep into the pain cave.
As with last week, just post your tales of suffering in the comments section below, or email them to inthesaddleblog@gmail.com, before the end of Monday 17th October. Sufferlandrian Head Coach David McQuillen will choose the most eye watering tale of heroic suffering, and we’ll also publish a selection of the best contributions.
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Mary Estall
October 10, 2011Whilst out in Majorca on a training camp I unavoidably hit the deck and suffered a very minor scrape to knee and shoulder. The bike was straightened and I composed myself, after a while I started cycling again, shoulder was sore but continued anyways as cycling is all about suffering.
Following day woke up with pain but it was the 4th & final day of the training camp everyone was suffering. The roads & weather in Majorca were amazing so there was no way I couldn’t ride. Half way through the day my shoulder started grinding and clicking but figured it was just one of those things. Friends were saying “you can’t have done anything that bad as you are riding you bike” kept up on flats but as soon as we hit any incline I was going straight out the back with tears in my eyes because I was properly suffering and was trying to just HTFU.
Packed the bike into the box, flew back to the UK figured I should head to A&E just to check it out. 4 hours later was diagnosed with a broken collarbone. I rode on a broken collarbone for a day and a half. Last year I seperated the other shoulder and a friend informed me that I wasn’t a “proper” cyclist as I hadn’t broken my collarbone, well I am one now.
Charles Carabello
October 10, 2011Athens Ga, USA October 2009 – 2nd Annual Jittery Joe’s Fall Classic.
Fall in the Southern US can be fickle- it might be 78 and sunny or 48 and miserable. For this ride I got the later. It was easily 45 degree with light to moderate mist of rain all day long – I really did not think it would last – but it did. By the time the ride started, it had picked up to actual rain and the double pace line I was in quickly turned in a line of rooster tails and grim grime coming off the wheel in front of you. Mile after mile we were riding in the gutter, trying to hug the tree line for some respite. You almost did not want to stop and sag because you were afraid your legs would just seize up and quit. I could feel my socks getting quishy and thinking about the shoe covers back in my car.
It was an epic metric century – with folks helping each other, taking strong pulls and slogging through the miles. It also marked the last big ride I did for more than year as it turns out I would be diagnosed with Stage III melanoma about two days later. I think I knew I was sick and that pushed me through the suffering. I point to that ride every year to as a reminder that the suffering in the saddle actually prepared me for the suffering I went through with cancer.
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