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...race day you rise around 7, pack your gear, attend a sponsor hospitality event. Sponsors call the shots: their money determines the quality of your team and your equipment. Before the race you say something blandly reassuring to your wife--"Hey, I'll see you in a while"--then get into your car. Your team mummifies you with five tight belts. You feel the throttle under your thin-soled shoe. For the first time today, you're alone. You hear silence, then a rapid thumping: "It's your heart beating inside your ears when the earphones are plugged into...
Every sense is heightened. "You hear the motor, gear, transmission. You can tell when a tire is rubbing a fender--you will smell the change." You have a piano tuner's sense for the harmonics of your motor. It might change pitches because a valve spring is breaking. "When something changes, you understand," says Cope. You will know when a car is near. "There are times you can't see it, but you can hear it, or hear the air on your car." Your skin is a tool too. "You get a sense of buffeting. You can feel...
...most weekends, he'll be racing his bike with the other guys from the neighborhood, down at Bangkok's superslum Klong Toey. That's why tonight, a few days before the race, he is working on his bike, removing a few links of the engine chain to lower the gear ratio and give the bike a little more pop off the line. He kneels down with a lit candle next to him, his hands greasy and black as he works to reattach the chain to the gear sprockets. Around him a few teenage boys and girls are gathered, smoking cigarettes...
Trekking in Taiwan is not for the fainthearted. The Central Mountain Range is steep and wild. Summer thunderstorms rise unseen, temperatures can drop below zero, and facilities are few and far between. But for those willing to carry their own gear, the treks are among the most beautiful in Asia. The top hikes in Taiwan?on Chilai Ridge and Yushan?require a reasonable level of fitness and the proper equipment, including a tent and stove, food and water, a sleeping bag, good boots and warm clothes...
...University's more career-oriented programs such as the Undergraduate Teaching Education Program (UTEP), administered by the Graduate School of Education (GSE), and Summerbridge--a worldwide teaching organization--tend to gear their training toward students interested in pursuing careers in education, but most PBHA-affiliated programs focus on just bringing interested volunteers to a level where they can participate in the afterschool teaching or mentoring programs included under PBHA's umbrella...