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RIP Mike Hall, Hero
I didn't understand why this made me so sad this morning until I tried to tell my GF what happened.
Me: "There's this race called the TransContinental which starts in Belgium or over here and ends in Turkey..."
GF: "Oh, do you want to do it?"
I've never bivvied. My longest road ride was about 110mi proving a point for a Strava Gran Fondo challenge. My longest offroad ride was last year's Dorset Gravel Dash 100.
The way Mike went about winning these epic challenges turned us all into dot-watchers for the whole field, hungry for the next tantalising Instagram post from any rider or spectator. He and his fellow riders made us dream of adventures, of freedom, of landscapes far away, of that sense of achievement we get from conquering a hill but amplified by that hill being the end of weeks of hills.
We need heroes like Mike. Mike is one of those people we wish we could be.