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Yes sir

https://twitter.com/bp22/status/700890974730350592

Looks like there is, though.

Unless the guy is seriously ill or overweight this one is hard to lose.

The time allowed to cover the distance is not much faster than a slow jog.

He has a long climb out of CA enroute to NV but that will balance out with some nice speed down the other side into LV.

His only real obstacle will be other traffic. He'll probably give up his winnings to Vanessa who can do this challenge with about six hours to spare.

Way to spend a whole month, training for a nerd bet with all the money Dan has lol

Failed level one thinking. If you can't see Dan et. al are entertaining this opportunity more for the attention and publicity and the wager is an incentive which adds to the story line then you don't understand marketing 101.

Worth repeating how much easier Vegas to LA is than vice versa. I'd be shocked if he lost this bet.

Wat?

The bet is LA to Vegas. In other words, Uphill.

You sure about that? Believe it's the other way. In other words, downhill.

(Wat?) is so hard to understand?

Perkins changed the bet to Vegas>LA to make it easier for Dan.

wtf that's a cinch

Made an interesting read here: http://www.betterbybicycle.com/2014/...s-cycling.html

Cliffs:

- Google assumes a baseline moving speed of around 16km/hr (10miles/hr)
- Google adjusts the moving speed for each part of the route based on route specifics like elevation (it is faster downhill and slower uphill based on the gradient and distance) and the number of intersections.
- Google assumes cyclists will wait at all red signals till they turn green, even ridiculously long ones that are safe to cross when clear.

LA altitude approx 100'
Las Vegas altitude approx 2500'

Wind at back while having to climb 2400' over 280 miles or wind in face while getting to descend 2400' over 280 miles?

Seems like Vegas to LA would be the better choice but wtf do I know? It's been years since I've ridden a bike.

Publicity:

http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion...over-bike-ride

Bilzerian will fail here, physically imo...

im assuming he will do the hottest temperature part of journey in the middle of the night while it is dark and cool but who knows. No doubt he is a sharp husler and wish him well but this seems like biting off more than one can chew. Riding the hottest parts of the trip in the middle of the night and all the other maybe tiny little edges you can gain just dont change how herculean of a task this is lol within 48 hours.


Lucky its not mid July he drop stone dead..

Granted it has been a little while since he was in the SEALS, but he went thru hell week twice and passed both times. I can promise you there is no other training as hard as SEAL training, and to go thru Hell week not once, but twice and pass is a true testament to his character. Quitting is not an option for him. The only thing that may get him is the timeframe he has to finish it in.

This is actually the next weeks forecast for Barstow Cali



That is a pretty significant difference and would maybe lend much more to this being possible. Is there a firm date that this starts, or is that window of time open.

That is very nice weather for this

Yes you are correct, he never graduated from BUDs. He was in two seperate BUDs classes. The first time thru he was dropped right after Hell week for medical reasons. The second BUDs class he was in, he made it thru hell week again, then a few weeks before graduating from BUDs he decided it would be a good idea to tell his CO he was a ****in ****. So they dropped him for attitude reasons. He has gone thru some of the toughest military training in the world. Granted it was some years back, but its a state of mind. If you have it in you to die rather than quit, which is the mindset of a SEAL, there arent to many things that can get in your way. I'm not saying he can or can't finish this bike ride, but if he is still in decent shape, I certainly wouldn't put it past him to take this down.

while seal training is undoubtedly incredibly tough u have no idea what ur talking about when u say there is nothing as difficult.

I'd rather do hell week 2x than go thru the airforce PJ training once.

My apologies Sir... I should have chosen my words a little better. I was simply trying to show the mindset Dan may still have after all these years. It takes a certain type of person to go thru what he has went thru. That's all I was trying to convey.
However I will say that PJ's and SEALs often work together. Not always, but at times there is a PJ team assigned to a SEAL team while on deployment. It's all one big happy Special Forces family. I believe the dropout rates of PJ's to SEALs was something like a 90% dropout rate for PJ's and something like 72% for SEALs. So yes on paper you may be correct, but I can assure you there have been PJ's that have gone on to become SEALs and there have been SEALs that have gone onto becoming PJ's. To say the training is day to night is a little bit of a stretch in my opinion sir.
Again I meant to offend no one with my earlier statement, I wasn't trying to take anything away from any type of SF.