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比賽的時間越來越靠近了, 要準備的事情也越來越多, 時間也越來越不夠. 所以有話就要快說, 有心愛的人就要快去表白(咦?) 所以這禮拜的發文要感性一點, 每天來一篇文感謝促成或幫助我參賽的人們... (雖然, 我真的不知道能不能順利完賽... 以一介凡人想挑戰這種賽事.... 感覺就像跟希臘神化裡的眾神們比賽一樣 =0=")
OK, 第一次知道這場比賽, 是2012年在準備從德國騎車到北京時, 看到了一群瘋子, 88個人從倫敦出發, 騎著各式各樣的腳踏車, 也有抗著兩個大馬鞍袋上路的. 當時我看到了一個紀錄片:
GOING AWOL ON THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RACE
當時我看完後, 被影片的許多片段給感動了... Team AWOL說: "It’s not a sport, it’s a adventure." (這不只是一個運動, 而是一場冒險.)
當時我也正要開始準備一場冒險, 對前途一籌莫展, 我不知道能不能完成, 也沒有一點準備好的感覺. 但最後我還是上路了.
雖然我看完的感想是: "太強了!! 不過還好我這輩子都不會想去參加這種比賽."
一年後, 也就是我在路上騎車旅行半年多後, 我和遇到的同伴Raimon被雨困在洛陽 - 絲路的東頭. 我們一起看著比賽大會的現場報導, 看著GPS的LIVE點不斷的移動, 並見證了第一名 Kristof Allegaert在第七天完成了比賽.
我倆都被嚇傻了, Raimon轉過頭來跟我說: Min! 我們一起去參加TCR (The Transcontinental Race)!
腦袋還在嚐試了解用七天完賽背後所需花費的不可思議時, 我轉過頭看著Raimon, 覺得自己聽到了另一件不可思議的事情.
"我明年可能還在美洲騎車, 所以我們可以一起參加後年的, 也就是2016年的!!" Raimon繼續興奮的說
我的腦袋裡, 突然開始撥放一年前準備比賽時看到Team AWOL的影片片段, 以及我當時即將要面對旅行結束的時刻.
"好, 咱們相約2016見." 我回應了這句話, 就和Raimon在洛陽的青旅握了手, 相約兩年後比賽再見面. 之後我們就分道揚鑣.
每次這個故事說到這裡, 大家都覺得弱掉了. 因為, Raimon此刻還在美洲繼續他的環遊世界旅行, 只剩我獨自履行了這個約定. 但約定只是個起點, 也是我這趟冒險的一個藉口和動力.
就這樣, 我來了.
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It’s getting close to the start of TCR 2016. things happen faster and I would like to share the stories to thanks all the people to help and made me to go so far (even I don’t feel I can’t actually really finish this big challenge, it’s just feel like I am racing with some incredible Greek gods...)
Ok, the story started from 2012. I was preparing for my bike journey from Germany to Beijing. Then I saw the Video made by team AWOL:
GOING AWOL ON THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RACE
At that moment when I watch the video, the sentence touched me: This is not just a sport, but an adventure.
I was also about to start preparing an adventure, unable to do anything about the future, I do not know can not be completed, there is no point feeling ready. But in the end I hit the road.
Although my response was: "Fxxking crazy!! Fortunately, however, I will never ever want to join this kind of competition."
A year later, I was on the my bike trip in Luoyand, China with Raimon Bicicleta i Manta. We stocked for the rain, and watching the GPS LIVE point moving on the screen. The first finisher Kristof Allegaert he finished the race only 7 days.
I was still thinking about how it possible to finish this such kind of big event for 7 days. Raimon turned his face to me and said: Hey Min! Let’s go to TCR together!”
I looked at Raimon as some strange thing I never see it for my whole life, but he keep saying: “ Next year I will be still on my Go Around the World Trip”, so let’s join on 2016!”
Some part of video from team AWOL: This is not just a sport, but and adventure.”
Then, my hand was shaking Raimon’s hand already.
So, here I am.
