From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Mon Aug 28 2000 - 13:51:41 MDT
Michael S. Lorrey wrote on Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:50:35 -0400
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>>Peter McCluskey wrote:
>>>spike66@ibm.net (Spike Jones) writes:
In the spirit of survivor, I propose a new sport, the optimal
strategy of which is unclear. The game is to see who can walk
(or run) the greatest distance, assuming that the competitor
must carry *all* necessary supplies, food, water, whatever else
might be needed.<<<
>>For a truly new (and not yet feasible) class of sports, I suggest
ones where contestants can't learn from direct experience, but
instead need to learn by observing copies of themselves. (snip)<<
>Ah, yes, like the old Vogon favorite, "Toss a hitcher out into
space" competition. (snip)
Coming up with a new sport would obviously require combining
criteria that have not in the past been combined, in environments
not encountered, with equipment not yet devised.<
I've been following the thread and was pleased when James Rogers
suggested cotton. (It breaths.)
But, I also started thinking about the concept of an extended
hike. I tried to remember the many hikes I have taken - through
the sands of a dormant volcano, the Navajo Indian Reservation,
Monument Valley, combined with trekking the Amazon Jungle and
sailing the seas for several months -- they all were adventuresome
and challenging, but it was the symbiotic efforts of the many
diverse treks that have given me the greatest satisfaction.
A new sport that excites me (in this body and at this time)is
a meta-athlon (metathlon) of diverse terrain by multifaceted,
fluid movements combining walking, riding, climbing, skiing,
sailing, swimming, surfing, rollerblading, scatbording, parachuting,
flying, and virtually simulated performance.
Natasha
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