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A few people have taken on the challenge as a means of losing weight. That can be very dangerous. The day after day physical demands of the body burn huge volumes of calories and definitely build great muscle mass. The danger is in not sustaining a sufficient amount of nutrition for the body’s accelerated needs, thereby risking weakness and sickness.
Andy Hiroshima of Sacramento, California, commented that some use the cross-country experience as a way to get away from something. Perhaps they are trying to make sense of, adjust to, accept, and overcome a loss, sadness, or tragedy in their lives. Bicycling is excellent therapy. Certainly it is a way for a person to clear their mind.
Some people bicycle coast to coast simply to see this vast nation. For some it is that sense of freedom and independence – the American spirit. Stirred by vicariously living as the cowboys on television that they grew up with, it can satisfy that frontier spirit. It can fulfill a sense of rugged individualism. Being out there on a bicycle powered by our own physical capabilities settles restlessness. Bicycles provide autonomy and mobility. Things Americans love.
Others' Crossings
Bob Morgan
The tenth day of cycling across the Northern Crossing,
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