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5 times RAAM winner - Hard as f*ck.
[i]During the 2004 Race Across America, he was reported to have had only eight hours of sleep during his eight-day, 2958.5-mile (4761.2 km) ride across the United States.[/i]
[url= http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/jure-robic-killed-in-accident ]Died yesterday, hit by a car[/url]
he was reported to have had only eight hours of sleep during his eight-day, 2958.5-mile (4761.2 km) ride across the United States.
I'm also 45 and I only had three hours sleep on my three-day, 1200km Paris-Brest-Paris across France so I was just about as hard a rider as him (pro-rata). I don't really want to get taken out by a car though, so the comparison ends there.
Seriously though, a tragic loss 🙁 and the man was still going strong and doing and winning these mega endurance events in his mid-forties.
A true hard man, and as mad as a bucket of Monkeys!
That is truly tragic ... after watching him on the RAAM documentary I had the utmost respect for this man.. total dedication.
Another tragic loss to cycling.