Comments on: Push it… http://www.dorje.com/~alanf/dharma/blog/?p=185 Scattered thoughts Tue, 12 May 2026 23:33:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: alanf http://www.dorje.com/~alanf/dharma/blog/?p=185#comment-3158 alanf Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:09:53 +0000 http://www.dorje.com/~alanf/dharma/blog/?p=185#comment-3158 Given that you have to have competed in previous endurance rallies to get into the Iron Butt, given that outside the endurance rally circle the IBR is mostly unknown and given that the sum total of a IBR win is a cheap plastic trophy, I doubt there is really motivation for someone to cheat. I think people do this for the same reason people climb mountains, swim large bodies of water or bicycle long distances...just to prove to themselves that they can do it. I don't think there is a problem with having a support vehicle, as long as the rider does all the actual riding. 'Course, having a support vehicle that can *keep up* with the pace set by some of these guys may preclude that anyway. Given that you have to have competed in previous endurance rallies to get into the Iron Butt, given that outside the endurance rally circle the IBR is mostly unknown and given that the sum total of a IBR win is a cheap plastic trophy, I doubt there is really motivation for someone to cheat. I think people do this for the same reason people climb mountains, swim large bodies of water or bicycle long distances…just to prove to themselves that they can do it.

I don’t think there is a problem with having a support vehicle, as long as the rider does all the actual riding. ‘Course, having a support vehicle that can *keep up* with the pace set by some of these guys may preclude that anyway.

]]> By: Joel http://www.dorje.com/~alanf/dharma/blog/?p=185#comment-3157 Joel Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:46:07 +0000 http://www.dorje.com/~alanf/dharma/blog/?p=185#comment-3157 Amazing. It'd be hard to make some of those runs in a CAR, and driving is much less fatiguing than riding (and weather is less of a factor.) Anyone ever get caught cheating in the Iron Butt? Switching out riders, following with support personnel and maybe a van they can sleep in, that sort of thing? Just following the rider with a small camper would help, as they could eat and nap much more easily and quickly. Amazing. It’d be hard to make some of those runs in a CAR, and driving is much less fatiguing than riding (and weather is less of a factor.)

Anyone ever get caught cheating in the Iron Butt? Switching out riders, following with support personnel and maybe a van they can sleep in, that sort of thing?

Just following the rider with a small camper would help, as they could eat and nap much more easily and quickly.

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