This coming weekend I’ll be heading out the Bonneville salt flats near Wendover, UT to again help my friend Dr. Murray Griffin in his attempt to break a land speed record in his class of motorcycle. Murray will have to reach an average speed of 215 mph over two attempts in order to beat the current record. He’ll be riding his modified 2003 nitrous-injected Suzuki Hayabusa motorcycle.
Check out a video from last year on YouTube!
Murry is a sports psychologist at the University of Essex in England. An experienced motorcyclist, Murray (I have a hard time calling him Dr Griffin!) has competed on motorcycles for over ten years and has reached speeds of over 200 mph several times. When I ask him what it feels like to go over 200 mph, he quips, “The word you’re looking for is windy.”
I first met Murray at the Badwater Ultramarathon in Death Valley in 2002 when he and a team came to study me both physically and psychologically. Since then, Murray has returned to Death Valley to crew me at Badwater another six times. It is my honor and pleasure to support Murray once again at Bonneville. Wish him luck and, of course, safety!
I'm looking forward to catching up with you on the salt -it only feels like a couple of weeks since we last……
Still at least this year we don't have to go slow.
Ahoj, jsem z Czech republik a právě jsem zkouknul film 127 hodin. Úžasné, ale jen mi trochu vadí, jak se potom všechno po americku profláklo a samý patos a hrdinství a tak…
Byl jsem v USA a projel zemí na západ a zpět a zase bych se vrátil, ale už to nepůjde, nemám peníze.
Ahoj Ameriko
Google translator says this message is: “Hi, I’m from the United Republics and had just 127 hours zkouknul movie. Amazing, but only bothers me a little, then how all the American and profláklo same pathos and heroism, and so … I was in the U.S. and toured the country to the west and back again, and I would return, but it will not work, no money. Hello America”
Hello, Enrigo, and hello, Czechoslovakia.