Ride the Line

“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.” ― Hunter S. Thompson STRAVA LINK:  CB Classic '15 "Evil Beauty" The nausea was such that it felt as though my stomach were being pulled out through my belly button- This sensation was a byproduct of the exploding  razor-blade  pain just behind my slow blinking eyes- As I forced the oatmeal into my mouth at 3:45 a.m. I had a simple hope, that it wouldn’t make a return anytime soon and with that, I understood; there were far bigger things to worry about than the mountains that lie ahead- This would be the 12 th edition of the Crested Butte Classic and in a way it could aptly be considered Crested Butte Classic 2.0- The reason for this deviation is the Classic’s departure from the traditional three loop format (each loop goin