GET OUT: Race Across Oregon

By Caitlin Giddings
Lap Lai, Race Across Oregon
Race Across Oregon.
Participants start and finish in Hood River, climbing over 40,000 feet in elevation in under 48 hours.
This is the first year you're racing all 527 miles solo?
So you're more in it to finish than to win?
Do you have any time to sleep at all or do you just stay up?
If you finish, what will you be proving to yourself?
How much and what do you eat?
Do you do anything weird to stay alert?
What do you think about all day?
Do you start to hallucinate when you're really tired?
So what's the weirdest thing that's ever happened to you while you're racing?
What does it take to win something like this?
So how will you celebrate?

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