MICKY DYMOND is in 2nd place in 200-mile bicycle race

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Edited Date/Time 9/16/2013 4:14pm
MIcky Dymond is training to be in the 2014 Race Across America, the 3,000 mile bicycle race that starts in Oceanside, California and ends in Annapolis, Maryland. To be an official finisher a rider needs to complete the course in 12 days or less (the record is under 8 days!).

Micky is racing today in Sacramento in one of the qualifying events. It started this morning at 5am and he's currently in 2nd. See his progress at this link: http://nocal.raamchallenge.com/rs/index.php?N_webcat_id=428

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Motoxdoc 9/14/2013 1:02pm
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MX'ers are badass!.....and for a couple years Micky was one of the badest! A Saddleback and OCIR ace!
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The Rock 9/14/2013 2:00pm
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Best of luck to Micky! Did he stop smoking or is he a still a modern day Mikkola?
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Bigfoot 9/14/2013 2:29pm
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At noon when Micky reached time station #2 he was still in second , 35 minutes behind first. Fourth and fifth have both DNFed. Micky has three more time stations to go.

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RonSkj 9/14/2013 2:55pm
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Geez.. 1st place is 35 minutes ahead. I didn't know RV was riding a bike today
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Hank_Thrill 9/14/2013 4:14pm
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That is so awesome!

Go Micky, go!

200 miles on a road bike ain't no joke.
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GuyB 9/14/2013 6:19pm
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Hank_Thrill wrote:
That is so awesome!

Go Micky, go!

200 miles on a road bike ain't no joke.
Nope. I did 47 today. That was enough. Smile
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Bigfoot 9/14/2013 7:36pm
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MICKY WON!


And celebrated with some of the sponsor's best. Those Sierra Nevada Torpedos are good!
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Tim507 9/14/2013 7:37pm
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Hank_Thrill wrote:
That is so awesome!

Go Micky, go!

200 miles on a road bike ain't no joke.
GuyB wrote:
Nope. I did 47 today. That was enough. Smile
I understand enoughSmile Did a 500 mile DS ride Thursday to Saturday in the Oregon Outback..took Sunday off and on Monday did a real tight technical Mtn Ride...was 10 miles in and 1.5 from my goal - stopped - thought for a minute....damn the ride back is not downhill - turned around....20 miles is enough!
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824 Dad 9/14/2013 8:35pm
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Thats cool, great job Mickey. His dad was my framing contractor way back in the late 70's.
On another subject my son is getting ready to ride his "handcycle" from San Fransico to San Diego, 620 miles in 6 days, using nothing but arm power....yeah he's a badass...hahaha
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Tim507 9/15/2013 8:35am
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Things are a little slow around here - I'm off for a bike ride and some siteseeingSmile


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Bigfoot 9/16/2013 8:27am
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From Micky's Facebook

"This is my Crew, Ray (my Dad) and Tage (super camera man), Black Chevy chase truck complete. we head out, 225 miles through Nor Cal... make that 230 after a couple of detours but, who cares, We missed having Brenda Lyons. Next race is the 400 in Daytona in Nov."

To be an official finisher in next year's Race Across America Micky will need to ride this kind of mileage every day for nearly two weeks. The race is 3000 miles long and the cut-off is 12 days, which means a minimum of 250 miles per day. Ouch!


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TX24 9/16/2013 11:11am
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Wow, working up to 250 mile days. I'm working up to 48 miles.
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Falcon 9/16/2013 12:51pm
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I did 16 on my mountain bike and felt like I was going to have a seizure.
Great job, Micky!
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Bigfoot 9/16/2013 1:15pm
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TX24 wrote:
Wow, working up to 250 mile days. I'm working up to 48 miles.
Micky finished the 225.4-mile course in 14 hours and 13 minutes to average 15.84 mph.
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twizzler 9/16/2013 1:42pm
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Micky has been training his ass off the past few months. He was a bad ass on a moto bike and is a bad as on a pedal bike. I wondered why he has been riding so much. Now I see why. That's awesome!
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Bigfoot 9/16/2013 3:52pm
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twizzler wrote:
Micky has been training his ass off the past few months. He was a bad ass on a moto bike and is a bad as on...
Micky has been training his ass off the past few months. He was a bad ass on a moto bike and is a bad as on a pedal bike. I wondered why he has been riding so much. Now I see why. That's awesome!
Yeah, Micky is coming along great! But to put it in perspective when Austrian Christoph Strasser won RAAM this year he did it 7 days, 22 hours and 11 minutes with an overall average speed of 15.56 mph,for the 3000 miles just shy of what Micky averaged on 230 miles. And that's not on-the-bike average speed---in UltraCycling events like these the clock is always running, even when you're sleeping, eating, pooping or whatever.

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newmann 9/16/2013 4:14pm
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I did 100 miles in July just West of Houston a couple years in a row. After the 60 - 70 mile point I was always having a WTF moment. Why someone would want to do that to themselves day after day after day.....Laughing Stuff of legends!

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