McDonalds is about a mile away, as well as a host of other fast food choices, I don't eat that stuff though
I use McDonald's as a reference, so that people understand how truly remote my house is.
I want to do the bobsledding type of events. I want to do them all, but I mostly want to do the 'skeleton'.
That one is a little slower. You only hit speeds in the 70s, compared to upper 80s for bobsled and lower 80s for the luge. The skeleton is where you face foward on a tiny sled and go balls out as fast as you can - trying to find the cleanest possible line to maintain/gain the most speed.
Man...
We used to slide down some dangerous shit as a kid. Doing the skeleton on a giant and dangerous track just sounds like pure awesomeness.
The skeleton is he4ad first and the luge is feet first.
I am not sure I would do either anymore. Twenty years ago, I would have done both
I would do all of them.
I would not do so at an Olympic level. But, I'd try my best. You usually don't get too hurt in these events.
Shit, in snowboarding they'll be 25' over a 22' wall and sometimes drop all the way to the bottom. (The snow is concrete levels of hard.)
Ski jumpers have tons of energy and wreck bad enough to end your career in one small mistake.
The sledding events are pretty damned safe compared to things like that.
I plan on opening the thread tonight.
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