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| | Long Distance Riders |
 | | As I write, a few hundred riders are making their way from Missoula, Montana to Needles, Arizona on the first leg of the Iron Butt Rally, a bi-annual endurance run that typically takes riders around the four corners of the contiguous United States, 11,000 miles in 11 days. |
 | | A rider would typically have a GPS, CB radio, cell phone, real time whether device, various clocks and timers, thermometer, radar detector, AM/FM radio and CD player and an Autocom system to tie together all the audio interfaces into a headset in the rider’s helmet. |
 | | Some are diabetic, others have rare disorders like Puget Sound rider Rachel Dwyer who suffers from two disorders – one that causes her body temperature to chill down sooner than normal, and another that affects her body clock - causing her senses to go into sleep mode by 10 pm every single day. |
| www.soundrider.com /archive/newsworthy/long_distance_riders.htm (1250 words) |
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