Inspired to Ride (2015) - full transcript

MIKE HALL: And I like the
thrill of the race. It's kind
of like being on the run,

it's kind of like
being a fugitive, not
sticking around in one place

for too long,
always thinking there's
somebody coming after you and,

uh, that's... That's exciting.
That... That's kind
of like living in

a little bit of a...
A story.

It's almost like
a double life.

There's something about
that... That's quite
a lot of fun.

I think I got into racing
through the 24-hour
racing and so,

um, I decided that,

you know, one day,
I want to design my own
things, my own products,

perhaps even my own bikes.



But, first, I wanted to get
into the bike scene

and I wanted to sort of
develop, yeah, some contacts

and get my name known a bit
and have a good... Maybe have
a good couple of years

racing just so that I've got
some pedigree, and a bit
of knowledge about that.

And to put in
to the designs.

And then, it kind of
got a hand, really.

JULIANA BUHRING: Uh, I've only
really been cycling about two
and a half years.

I started bicycling the
world having never
ridden a bike before

that and did like a brief...

Some months of training to
cycle the world and that's
when I learned how to

ride a bike.

Having grown up in, uh,
like this extremist cult
that I grew up in, right,

I pretty much had a pretty
stunted childhood.

It was like being
a bird in a cage



and seeing the world
from behind high walls
and wanting to be in it

and just wanting the freedom,
to experience the freedom,
of being myself

and discovering
the world and...

I fell in to really
deep depression

and I... I lost
many friends.

I lost my sister to suicide.

So I guess I just sunk into
this really dark place,

uh, and so I decided to cycle
the world to get out of that.

Um, it was a
supposed drastic
move on my part as I...

I wanted to escape
from the world,

but, at the same time,
I wanted to discover it

or discover my place in it.
So, that's why I set off
in the first place

and, honestly, left thinking
that it was okay if
I didn't come back. I...

I was perfectly okay to...
To just, yeah...

To just go out there
and, you know,

if I came back all right,
but I wasn't...

I didn't make a plan like
a contingency plan... I...

The entire journey really did
give me a passion for life,

I rediscovered a purpose

for existence and my place
in the world and, not only
that, I discovered cycling.

I discovered that
I could cycle.

HALL: So, after that, yeah,
after the 24-hour races,
there was The Tour Divide

the first time and
that changed things

and changed my view
of the races I wanted to do.

And, so then I went to do
the "Around the world" race,
that was successful.

I wanted to go then go back
and do The Tour Divide
and do better than I did

and I went and I won it.
And then, the August
of that year,

we put on a race called
The Transcontinental which
was designed to be

a little bit like a race
across America in Europe

but with no support

BUHRING: Self-supported,
ultra endurance racing is to
me, probably like the X Games

of endurance cycling,
so it's taking it to
the next level and a level

that the majority of people,
even racers who might do the,

you know, professional racers
who do the Giro d'Italia,
who do the Tour de France

uh, who do the RAAM,
um, might not actually
ever participate in

because they are so used to
a controlled environment,

going back at the end
of the day to a nice hotel,

getting a massage,
having the perfect diet,

having the drinks
handed to them,

food handed to them,
everything is
five-star cycling

whereas this is just
for the crazies.

NARRATOR:
This is the Trans-Am
Bike Race.

4,233 miles
across 10 states.

There are no support teams,
no stages, and no stopping
at check points.

The race starts in Astoria,
Oregon, then follows the
infamous Trans-America

bike route over the
Rocky Mountains, across the
Great Plains,

and through the Appalachians,
then finally finishes in
Yorktown, Virginia.

This is the story of those
inspired to dream big

and discover not only what's
on the other side but what we
are truly capable of.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

NATHAN JONES: All right,
good morning, folks.

I'm Nathan Jones and I
want to thank all of y'all.

Forty five of you for taking
part in the first ever
Trans-Am Bike Race.

Pay attention to
the alternate routes.

There's few which may be
faster all of which
are in play.

Make sure all of your spot GPS
tracking units are functional.

Make sure your batteries
are good in 'em.

Finally, I can't say how
grateful I am for y'all
to come out here.

Did not sleep last night.

I was tossing and
turning all night.

MAN 1: Well, I said good-bye
to my girlfriend so I'm
definitely going now.

(LAUGHING)
JONES: Off we go!

(CHEERING)

MAN 2: Are we going
to have fun?

MAN 1: Yeah!
It's gonna be a blast!

A little toasty out here,
right now.

I think we need a little rain
just to cool up a little bit.

I'm getting a little
overheated.

It's a, it's a bit
chilly out here.

There's a coffee shop around
here somewhere.

EDDIE CLARK:
This is Mike Hall.

He is starting late
to stay out of the limelight

and now, he's riding
through the field.

Probably a good tactic
to keep people from
following his wheel

'cause now,
they're strung out,

they're into it, probably
already pegged themselves
right off the bat.

He's just going to ride
through them and do
his thing, I think.

Oh, and then
Mike passed me.

It's easy to get caught up in
that, like, mental game of

like getting passed
by the fast guys

and trying to push and trying
to do all that,

and I'm just like it's not
my thing, it's not like,
what are you doing?

It's like debilitating when
you're like making a climb
and you're like,

I'm already day-dreaming about
the food I'm gonna have,

and then, you hear like a...
(WHOOSHING)

Coming up behind you, and
he's like, "Yeah, missed
a turn, mate."

MAN: Where are you
riding to?

Virginia.

Virginia, are you serious?
Oh wow, that's a long way!

MAN: She's, uh, not going
in the right direction.

We can't take the 101?

I'll take the next left and
go on to the coast.

MAN: Is that really an option?

People are going
to see it on the maps,

everyone's
looking at the blue dots.
Everyone's watching her.

It's parallels, it's
not cutting mileage,
it's the same mileage.

There's a bunch of
alternate routes to the
Trans-America trail

and when I set up the rules,
I posted any alternate
is legitimate.

It's part of the official
routes so they're all...
Anybody who did it is not

a disqualified
or anything.

Hey!
Hello!

Boy, these guys
are just unbelievable.

But, you know, last year,
for my 62nd birthday,

I rode from Fort Bragg
to San Luis Obispo.

For me, it was just a grueling
test of physical and
mental being, you know.

I'm a Vietnam veteran,
disabled and I am just
so grateful, you know,

I've been to prison,
drug addict, alcoholic,
blah, blah, blah.

You know, I went through
it all, and now I have
a lot of spirituality.

'Cause one thing about
riding your bike, you can
only focus on one thing.

That's riding your bike.

I rode 11 hours yesterday
and only went about 43 miles,
but I pushed my bike a whole

bunch 'cause it's just too...
Way too big to push up
the hill, you know.

So...

(CRYING) This is for all the
guys that can't be out there,
there's a lot of 'em.

I'm a real emotional guy
when it comes to that.

Thank you,
God bless you, guys.

MAN: You guys are freaking
animals. You rocked it
today, you know.

I feel like one.

Yeah? I was keeping up
with this guy behind me here.

I don't know if
I'll make it over.
I'll start in, you know.

I want to ride
at least till 11.

For me, it's going
to depend on how
cold it gets.

I get really cold
at night.

So, I'm not going to risk
sleeping high if it's really
cold out there. So, I'll...

I'm going to start it
and if it gets cold,
I'll push over.

MAN: So, Ed and Jessie,
they just busted up about
two minutes ago.

Oh, really?
Um, did you tell him
how far I was behind?

Talk to you later.
Cheers.

We drove up ahead after
just chatting with those guys
at the bottom there.

We were sleeping on the road,
I heard a gear shift and,
uh... And a British accent,

"Hey guys", Mike Hall
whizzed by like, uh...
Like he was 10 miles into

the beginning of a ride
and he's well over 300 miles
and he just blew by this gate.

Mike is super human.
(LAUGHING)

That guy can pass so fast.

It was like we were
just sitting there.
Crazy.

MAN:
So, did you get that text?

No, what text?

So, Juliana... I just got
a text, two words,
"Bad crash."

And, we see her up, ah...
Going up on the pass
on the other side,

two hours away from here.

I am going to
try to call her.

Yeah.

And merge...
Merge this call.

Are you okay...
Are you okay?

Let it play out 30, 45 minutes
'cause two things will happen.

The shaken up part wears off

and allows her...

Whoever's with her to
first access is she
really hurt bad.

You know, concussion sort
of thing or just scared,
you know, shocked,

freaked out a little bit
'cause you crashed and that's
scary when that happens.

And then also, obviously if
there's any other, like,

injuries, flesh wounds,

possible fractures,
anything like that,

then, flesh wounds
you can patch up.

Fractures, that's probably
end of the race.

I've got so much
more living to do.

Where is everybody?
Did you hear what
happened to Juliana?

She went over her handle bars,
bruised her sternum bad.
I cleaned up her knee,

and then, I called... The guy
that brought her into his
pickup called the paramedics.

I'm doped up
on ibuprofen.

MAN: Really?
Yeah.

So sorry, I mean,
that sucks that you
had a crash, huh?

It's kind of my fault. Well,
the sun was just rising,
it got right in my eyes

and I didn't have
my glasses on,
so I didn't see this

giant rock on the road.
Basically, just went
right into it.

Boom, the bike went flying.

Oh, that's...
Fortunately, A guy in a truck
saw me and I literally

saw stars, and then, I was
like basically fainted
and he got me... He got me

in his car and took me
to a restaurant just around
the corner and called a medic,

I guess he was a medic.

I was a bit in shock,
so I just waited till I
calmed enough to go again.

It's more of
a big bruise, really.

Yeah!
Road rash.

(CHUCKLES)

Do you see a big lump?
I have had this before
because I have ridden

on cracked rib before.

In the next three, four days
will be the worst, the pain
will only get worse.

I don't feel like I'm doing
some incredible riding yet.

Usually takes me
about five days

to warm up and then,
I can just go and go, go.

So, at the moment I am in
kind of a jam. My body is
kind of acclimatizing.

So, I'm hoping
once it's acclimatized,
I can get up to like

260 a day, at least.

HALL: This is hard work.

Yeah, Jason's about
half an hour ahead

and, I don't think
he slept last night.

Um,

so,

yeah, it's been pretty
intense. He finished RAAM in
nine days or something.

So, that's a quick ride.

So, I think he's going for
no sleep at the moment,

he's got all of his powder
on him and he just
has a liquid diet but

he's going to
struggle in the hills.

It's quite easy to ride up
to him but he's not stopping.

Every time I stop, I need
a good advantage there.

MAN: Mike Hall, back in
number one position.

I always think he's like
40 miles up the road
and all of a sudden,

we're on a climb
and he kind of scoots
up beside me again.

I haven't slept yet,
the original plan was to
till 1:00 this morning,

like tonight but, normally,
I've got a van like that,
sitting right there,

handing me
water bottles but

this a little bit
different. I just couldn't
afford to do RAAM again,

so I was a little bit...
I don't have to pay
for a crew this way, right?

I, actually, was ahead
of Mike Hall for one
point of the race.

I'd like the record
to very clearly show that.

Like, that's my strategy,
like I'm not the fastest
guy out here

but I can
out camp him.

And take him at night
when they're not expecting it.

They wake up in the morning
and they're like, "What?"

People at the front
are riding way too fast,
it's insane.

I think Mike Hall just hit
the 500 mile mark

and it's been...
See, it's 2:00 now...

Seven, nine...
That's 33 hours,
500 miles, like,

kind of, hurts my brain.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

We're done with Trans-Am
but we're going to
do it a little longer.

(ALL CHUCKLING)
That's okay.

I don't know, I guess I had
expected they'll be at
an average somewhere

in the 100 to 125 miles a day,
so that's why I was really
shocked to see those guys

are this far, this early.

I retired a little over
a year ago. I found at
the end of each day,

I had accomplished nothing.

So, um,

my friend that lives in Oregon
and I live in Richmond,
Virginia, decided that we do

a little tour, like,
together this summer, so,
we had no set agenda,

we are riding
Trans-Am, and,

ah, the reason being,
it lends itself to the route
that we want plus the history

associated with this.

We're just having fun,
riding our bikes.

End of story.

FRANZISKA HOLLENDER: And, I
got into cycling only, almost
a year ago, last August.

I had never cycled before,
like, and I failed at a lot
of things in my past,

so I decided to do something
very different.

It's kind of fun to not be
failing at this right now.

MAN: Okay.
HOLLENDER: Feeling strong.

PETA MCSHARRY: I am ecstatic,
just loving the scenery,

loving chatting to people,
in a way,

I... I am super
competitive.

Obviously, need to go
and check and see
where Juliana is.

'Cause, I'm going to have
to get some sneaky,
little strategy going,

I think, um, just to
try and catch her.

I can't, I can't let her go.

I got about five and
a half hours of sleep

and then, uh, I went through
Baker City pretty early,
so there wasn't much open

and then pushed on and
had breakfast about 30
something miles back.

So, feeling the energy
kicking in now,

had some pancakes and
hash browns, that was good.

Try and make sure I don't
pass them, post office 'cause
I'm picking something up here,

I ain't turning around.

This is going to turn into
like a 24-hour post office
sprints unfortunately,

so I can
continue drinking my food.

It's better than Christmas.

I found in the past,
as soon as I started eating

real food, it makes you tired,
it makes you sleepy tired and
it makes you kind of slow.

It's kind of heavy.

It's not really a bike
pack in ideal situation.

Did you, by any chance,
see another rider?

I've got... I'm pretty loaded,
I'm by myself, so I've got
everything that I need.

My name is Joanna Abernethy
and I am from Australia and
I am doing this because

I want to do a tribute ride
to Martin Luther King,
that's the reason I am doing

this ride 'cause it was
his 50 year anniversary

of the "I Have a Dream" speech
last year and that's when
I decided to do it.

There hasn't been a single
person who has had anything
negative to say,

they might say negative things
about Barack Obama
or the government but not...

Everybody, even the most
surprising people, said Martin
Luther King was a good man.

HALL: That was
a long, long stretch.

I've just been to
the lodge there, it's
not open, but it's...

I just got brushed and
what have you.

So I slept in the... In one of
the camp ground toilets

for an hour and
a half last night.

And I thought I was
going to sort of play
him at his own game and try

and stay ahead and stretch
the lead out

and so I can get maybe a bit
of a longer break.

Yeah, 72 hours in, um,
three and a half,

four and a half hours
of sleep, maybe.

I haven't seen my feet
since... My bare feet,
since Astoria.

Um, I'd probably have
to check those out
sometime later today.

Oh, I'm...
I'm in Idaho.

I couldn't believe it.

It's a stepping stone
to Montana, then Wyoming,
and so, I want to get

through these and like
just survive for four days,

heal on the back side
of the Rocky's, and then, um,

see what's left.

I just like kind of
a challenge of, you know,
pretty soon I'm going to be...

I'm going to be gone
and I'm gonna be
a memory for my kids.

And, uh,

my father, who passed
away recently said...

You know, um,
I don't want to
get choked up.

He always said, "Son,
don't settle for a triple

"when you should've
run all of the bases."

MAN: Mmm-hmm.

WILLIAMS: You know,
go for it, hit a home run.

I spoiled myself. I had, um,
a half a box of Milk Duds,

frozen so you
can savor them,

you know, for
a long time

and then, I finished off a
day-old Subway sandwich.

Oh man, I'll tell you what,
I think the shelf life
on those

is at least two days.
Is anything hurting?

A better way to question is
"What isn't hurting?"

That's a better question.

'Cause everything is hurting.

I think my saddle sores have
saddle sores at this point.

MAN: Don't tire
yourself out for us.

(GROANING) Nah!
(MAN CHUCKLES)

It'll be my one point
two seconds of fame.

Brian Steele.
What's Brian saying?

"Due to technical
difficulties,

"I'm canceling my
chicken fried steak

"taste-testing
across the US.

"Oh, it's going
to be a long

"cheek clenching
day on the bike."

(LAUGHING)

Well, just let me tell you,

that right there was better
than finding a trail angel

with a bottle of,
with a bottle of water,

cool water in the
middle of a desert.

All right, that's all
I'm talking about.

Yee-haw!

Mike Hall has,
uh, tipped over 1000 miles.

And we're sitting at

581 so, he's
nearly doubled us.

So, we're the
Clydesdale group.

STEELE: That's right.
I don't think
there is anybody...

So, we're handicapped,
we get like, we get,

I heard we get seven days.

I heard we get seven days.

Seven days.
(CHUCKLES)

VAUGHN: It's like
a golf handicap.

My secret weapon,
M&Ms, a little chocolate,
a little peanut,

easy, doesn't
melt very often.

Good all day long.
(CHUCKLES)

I am thankful for a
a lounge chair, padded...

I'm thankful for nothing.
I am thankful to
not be on that seat...

Little thicker
than that...
Yeah.

(CHUCKLES)

One of the things
about going faster is

that it needs...
You need more calories.

Hey, hey! Surprise, surprise!
MAN: Hey!

We are without
the water now.
Stop!

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

Water. Impossible.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(LAUGHING)

It's Grizzly bear time, Yay!

Food reserves in my teeth.

It's like the first
sign of going feral.

(ALL LAUGHING)

The second is the leg hair.

Should I go on?

MAN: Did you get
to ride with your fellow

Italians or did
you pass them up?

I, I passed them
twice yesterday,

I think they're destroyed.
Yeah.

They, they, they didn't
look too good, you know.

I wonder if one of
them had heat stroke

'cause I passed one
at the descent

when it was like 85 out

and he was wearing a
jacket and going slow,

I was like,
"That's not good."

Yeah, yeah, I saw him
sitting out there he
looked really rough,

he called me over
and I was like,
"Hey, you all right?"

He was like he's like

"How many hours do
you pedal every day?"

I was like, "About,
I don't know like...

"Depends on the day, maybe
between 14 to 16 hours."

And he's like,
"You're strong."

When I woke up this
morning, I got up at 6:00,

um, I checked and
Jason is still in Wisdom.

So, um, I think my
margin's still safe.

So, I'm, I'm happy that I'm
rested and ready to do more.

I was pretty much
ruined by last night.

Ran out of caffeine and
things like that,
so it's, uh...

Yeah, I couldn't have,
I couldn't have gone

much longer on
that kind of regime.

It's, it's getting
a bit silly.

(CHUCKLES)

Oh, yeah!

It's okay,
it'll be all right.

I couldn't have been
happier with the way
that today was going.

I was easily going to get
another 150 miles in,

um, like, no problem.

As soon as I get
to the bottom,
I start peddling,

there's this horrible noise.
I peddle again,
it does it again,

I get off the bike and this,
the bottom bracket is cracked
all the way through.

I'm having my mountain bike

sent here and it'll be
here at 4:30 tomorrow.

I'm going to take
everything off of the
the bike that I'm on,

and put it on the yo-yo bike

and I'm going to chase them
down on a mountain bike.

Everybody from, uh,

from Mike, all the way
to the Lanterne Rouge

is giving 110%

to stay in this thing,

whatever their 110% is.

I even messaged Mike Hall.

I was like "Dude, do not let
this RAAM guy get up there."

(LAUGHING)

MAN: Day six,
Mike Hall, day six!
Yeah!

I don't know where
Jason is, but,

he could be on me
by now, I don't know.

Did you guys catch up
with him last night?

MAN: No!
All right!

MAN: We're
going there right now.

A little brisk
this morning, huh?

LANE: I'll just keep riding at
the same pace as I can.

I can't really
go any faster, so,

if that catches him
then that's great.

It's tougher mileage
than you think,

like for everybody.

When I...
I was like, yeah,

kind of the 285,

290 a day, maybe,
300 on good days,

and then, you kind of...

You just realize how
much extra time looking
after yourself takes.

Getting water, food,

making sure
your bike's okay,

that all adds up.
Then you get tired.

And that just adds
minutes to everything.

I only slept
for an hour last night,

mostly because it was so cold,

woke up shivering

so I just started
biking again.

You guys lost?
MAN: Yeah.

Where are we?

Where did, where did
the Italian boys go?

GOLDBERG: Giorgio is 61.

The, the other
guy, Paolo, is 37

and leads randonne trips.

He was telling me
all kinds of stories
back there, he's cool.

I got them eating
bean burritos now,
they're in trouble.

Did you guys see the
Italians behind us today?
Yeah.

They are desperate.
They've been behind us all
day trying to keep up.

Were they,
were they drafting?

No really, the Italian
men were not laying off.

That's why I've got these
two Italians on my tail.

They are desperate
not to go home like,

having been whipped by me

because, seriously,
Italian men are the worst.

They'll chase you.

When I rode around
the world, I, only wore
one pair of shoes,

the same ones,
all the way
around the world.

I pedaled 144 days.

Um, but, like
the total time

including flights and
stuff was 152 days.

Which for, for not having
cycled ever, wasn't bad.

Come in if you like.
Yeah.

I might even
buy you one.

The guy that fathered me,

he died

77 years old.

And he drank, he smoked.

I'm smoking and
I'm drinking and...

Hi, Mom!

(CHUCKLES)

And I ain't gonna change
my ways for nobody.

It's my life.

Be honest.

Be honest, honest
with yourself.

Don't get no
better than that

and look for gold.

(CHUCKLES)

BUHRING: That really,
really, really tired me out.

(SIGHS) Did not sleep well.

(DEVICE BEEPING)
I hate chirpy morning people,

takes me like two hours
usually to wake up.

Set up my bivvy,
and literally a minute after

I put my sleeping bag in,
a bird shits on it.

I'm like,
"Are you kidding me?"
(LAUGHING)

I'm like it must be
the ghosts around here.

I had a ghost
dream last night.

I don't remember much but
it was a ghost walking by me

and he was disturbing
my sleeping bag.

It was not a good day for me.

And, what else next?

Couple of beers
and bagels would
be all right.

(LAUGHING)

My fiancee now is...

I have to send it
to her because

we always joke about
when we go on road trips,
(CELL PHONE CHIMES)

We always get...
Well, I always get an
oatmeal cream pie

and she makes of it.

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

STAUFFER:
I just wanted to cross
the country on my bike

riding bike's okay
but racing? Better, yeah.

Yeah, I wanted to do
"Race Across America"
actually.

It's where I
kind of got into this

and that didn't work
out so this came up

and I was like,
"Yeah, I'm doing this."

Getting chilly now.

MAN: A little bit, huh?

Yeah, it was all right when
I was climbing, but...

Where are you from?

Pennsylvania.
MAN: Cool.

Central Pennsylvania, so
we've got, uh, some mountains
but nothing like this.

Oregon was tough.

Montana was better.

Wyoming is better,
yeah. (CHUCKLES)

STAUFFER: Yeah!
MAN: Big deal.
Getting better and better.

STAUFFER: Oh, yeah!
Getting better all the time.

BILLY RICE: I don't think
I made the best sleep
deprived decision

that I've ever made.

It's slow.

Hopefully, I'll, uh, I'll
be back on the road bike,

maybe, tomorrow
or the next day.

It's okay.

You know, an added
degree of difficulty,

you don't want
this to be too easy,

you know, anybody
could do it.

My biggest issue, last
couple of days, has been
some serious saddle sores.

I, actually, looked down
like two days ago

I had blood running
down my thighs.
MAN: Wow.

It's not a pretty,
pretty picture at all.

PICKUP: Other than that,
it's been beautiful.

(LAUGHING)

RICE: It's so good,
it's so good.

It's good times out here.

BUHRING:
Italians have rolled in.

MAN: Can't shake them.

Cannot shake them.
They don't sleep.

Pedaled all night
to keep up with them.

Between you and me, I think
they are taking something.

I'm doing my best to like keep

to the spirit of race,
and I think the spirit
of the race is to

be out there,
slogging it, you know.

I knew the moment I would
get in the top 10...

(STAMMERS)
The focus would go on like

my, my every single move.

It's fine but, like,
everyone else around me,

there's no focus
on them, like, come on.

How is it fair?

There's always that kind
of people in the world.

There's the watchers,
there's the doers,

and the watchers always
criticize the doers

because the watchers never
would do anything themselves.

Ultimately, I'm in
it for the ride, so,

I don't really care
what people say.

Still going to ride it.

I, I took the tracker
off my, off my phone,

it makes you
obsessive compulsive

and I'm not obsessive,
compulsive at all, man.

You know that.

I just like to ride.

I got to get that
out of my head.

Every one of these races,
some dude gets in my
head and it just bugs me

and then I have to,
like meditate on my...

I put a little mantra on here.

My glove blew off on the pass.

MAN: Oh, no.
(CHUCKLES)
That's okay, I have backups.

GOLDBERG: Oh, today's mantra?

"Everyone suffers,
it's just a matter of degree.

"Just like love
and happiness."

BUHRING: My upbringing

or my life up until
a certain point was,

well, not, not the easiest,
certainly not idealic,

um, environment for
a child to grow up in

and so I did learn a
lot of mental toughness

and independence, um...

And although it was
a pretty rough childhood,

I can honestly say at
this point that I am

grateful for it because
it's turned me
into who I am,

which I know I can count on
myself in the tough times

and it has given
me a certain level
of mental fortitude.

HALL: And, I just think
that it's more about

settling in and getting
comfortable and then just

letting your brain
wander off elsewhere and

you're not going that fast,

you're not going that
lactate threshold type pain.

It's not muscles burning
and teeth clenched and

smashing down
the walls of human,

you know,
adversity and things.

It's riding your
bike and then,

riding a bit more
and then, some more.

(EXHALES) This is quite
tough, actually.

(SHIVERS)

Leave it to sea level
to alert me.

The air around here
as well starts to get
to my throat after a while.

(COUGHS)

When you get to Kansas,
you'll be able to see
where everybody else is

just look behind you.

WOMAN: So, um,

you know, today
is Father's Day.

I... (CHUCKLES)

I was going to
say that to you,

because you
were... (CHUCKLES)

That's so awesome!

So, congratulations!

So, you ready to be a dad?

So, Happy Father's Day!

I need to call my dad,
speaking of which.

(CHUCKLES)

GUSKE: I should
probably get on the road.

Get going so you
can get back to me.

LANE: I, uh,

I had a plan to stop
in Florence last night

so, regardless of

where I was, early or
late, I was stopping

at the Super 8 in Florence

I had mailed some stuff
there ahead of time.
MAN: Gotcha.

So, my half way is...
I had a chain if I
needed a chain, tires.

I like Kansas.
MAN: Yeah.

I'm like one of the few.

Every year I ran, well,
the last two years,

we get there and
I loved Kansas.

Like, you get a
lot of crosswind,

'cause you typically
get a crosswind

from the... Usually from
the north and then, it
switches to the south.

(WIND WHOOSHING)

WOMAN: We were spoiled with
no wind for a few days

now, we get to learn
all over again.

That bicyclist
coming through here,

usually by the time
we see him, it's

30, 40 days into their
trip from coast to coast.
Yeah.

This gentlemen's following
your group that left

Oregon eight days ago.

They're averaging
300 miles a day
on the bicycles.

Oh, crap!
(LAUGHING)

I think that's
something you
ought to try

before harvest,
next year.
Nope!

MAN: Mike's in about
a 120 miles ahead

of the next guy.
WOMAN: Oh, my goodness!

At times, it's had a
little bit of a tail to it.
(WIND WHOOSHING)

That winds been nice
on the way in but

now, it's a 90 degree
turn straight into it.

MAN: Yeah.

We're looking
for nearly 10
miles an hour.

This is an average day.
(WIND WHOOSING)

Windy is when it gets up
above 90 miles an hour

and I have to bend over
to come out the door.

I don't envy the bikers
at all in this wind.

They're already fighting it,
then there's no wind
and then you

get sucked in with the truck.

It's gets pretty nasty.

The Italians are really
pursuing me today.

MAN: Yeah?
They got on your tail again.

They're hauling ass.
They've been cycling
since 11:00 last night.

That's how desperate they
are not to let me get ahead.

But, it's fine I, only, slept
for three hours last night.

I want to get over
and finished with
the mountains so I can

speed along tomorrow.

My bike's screw's broken,

so my seat has been going
down and lower and lower,

so, now my knees
are killing me.

Damn Italians have arrived.

I must run.

Seriously, when are
the guys gonna sleep?

LANE: Started looking
at the maps and like

I don't have enough
stuff to drink.

Started rationing
on the way down here to...

Every mile I was allowed
one little gulp of water

just in case there's
nothing here, I mean, I
was going to start to find

somebody's house which
got a water spigot on
the outside or something

but there's this thing
here which I assume
is okay to drink.

MAN: Yeah.
LANE: I tell you, if I was
going to do this again...

MAN: Yeah.

...I will probably rethink
my Spiz diet.

All of that is
Spiz right now.

MAN: Whoa.
So, you take...

And it's heavy. So, you
take this and this out...
MAN: Yep.

You don't need
anything upfront,

and there's another thing
of Spiz in my backpack

and without the Spiz that
means that the water bottles

aren't full of Spiz,
they're full of water.

BUHRING: Is that it?

Make it harder.

(CHUCKLES)
(MAN CHUCKLES)

(EXHALES)

Why do we climb
mountains? Downhill!

Best downhill ever.

MAN: (SHOUTING)
Come on, Mike.

We've got chocolate milk.

You're here.

You have no
special favors.

All 43 of you are going to
get food when they get here,

and whatever you
need. This is cool.

Here, you don't expect
bike shops to do

amazing things
like this, do you?

We're not a normal bike shop
though, we never have been.

We didn't start that
way and we won't
finish that way, so...

No, this is a
very cool set up.

That head wind was a side wind

and there were just
big trucks like that.

They were all just getting
really close

and they had horns
on them and stuff
like that and I'm...

I was about 45 degrees,
trying to keep straight.

It was ridiculous.

Got another 2100 and
some change to go!

Thank you!
Thank you, man and
have a safe trip.

Yup. Cheers! I'll be back
I'm sure.

BUHRING: Cycling into
the night, I love it,

I love the silence,
I love the darkness
and just

being alone

and the peace that you feel.

It's freezing cold and
a really bad wind but

just laying out and
watching the stars,

I don't think I'd rather be
anywhere else right now.

(WIND WHOOSHING)

WOMAN: How is
the wind out there?

MAN: Better than
yesterday-ish.

WOMAN: Is it more
favorable today?

MAN: Um, it's about the
same sort of crosswind

it's just a little section

where you have
to head directly into it.

WOMAN: Mmm-hmm
MAN: It don't seem as...

WOMAN: As bad. Okay.

MAN: But still not good.
WOMAN: Yeah.

He, actually, did say that
if there was hamburger here,

you might drop your
liquid diet for a minute.

(ALL LAUGHING)

MAN: So, does
the food taste good?
It's pretty good.

MAN: Yeah.
Yeah, it hits the spot.

You're not considering
that you are probably

eat the rear end out of
a rhinoceros right now,

hamburgers are
probably pretty good.

MAN: God speed, Jason.
Farewell, brother.

We happen to be one of

very few towns that the

Trans-Am cyclists
that use the
Trans-American trail

uh, get to come right down

in the middle of
our main street.

So, our mission here, at
Newton Bike Shop is to

make sure that
everybody can bike.

It's not about your bicycle,

we don't care that you got
it from a department store,

42% of people in America
get their bikes from
department stores,

so why wouldn't
we fix those.

Look what's here? (CHUCKLES)

So, the plan is just to
get this together, eat.

Um, you know, you
reach a point

in these races
where that whole, like
four hours of sleep

and eating on the go and
like that, all falls apart.

So, I got hit by
a horse trailer.

I saw the truck pass me
and then, he tried to like

scooch over to the right

and he clipped at me with
like the back of the trailer

you know, it had like
a little, uh, like a
lip that came out,

and he... It just...
I was in my aero bars

but he hit, he hit this

which just spun everything
sideways, over I went.

It's going to feel
good though, to be
back on this road bike.

Have to relearn
to ride this thing.

(WOMAN CHEERING)

He's back on his race
machine, he'll start
picking people off.

It will be really
fun to watch, so,

he's not done yet.
He's still got more to go.

MAN: So, my daughter and
I did that last night

and put it up last night

to give them something.

MAN: That's awesome.
It's a long ride.

PICKUP: The wind is killing me
the last couple of days.

(SNIFFS)

It's the third time
now I've ridden
across the Plains,

I am never doing it again.

When I, when I fell asleep,
I didn't really realize

it was just completely
infested with mosquitos.

I woke up like 4:00
this morning completely

bitten to hell with it.

Yeah, it's hot,
it's windy, it's tough.

Pueblo is like the,
uh, the half-way point

and you kind of,
mentally think,

"Yeah, I've cracked
it, this is awesome."

I've got some
flats coming up.

You know, you've
probably got some
knee issues and some

tendon issues after
the mountains,

then you hit the flats
and it's just like,

"This is so much worse."

The daily mileage
just isn't, uh...

I just underestimated
the amount of time...

Especially, I am not a
fast-acting person,
obviously, to stand here,

going into stores and
getting your supplies
and everything just

takes way more
time than you think.

Yeah, you can almost start
to like, think about it.

It's only Missouri and then,
cross the river, and Illinois,

you'd only be the
little, tiny part of it.

Cross that river and
then you've got what
a couple of days

to cross Kentucky and then
you're basically in Virginia,

just go up and over the ridge.

Doesn't sound too bad.

Need a little massage
right now, a little massage

and, oh, I need
a massage on my

uh, saddle sores,
it feels fantastic.

This feels good, right here,
all this, right here.

Awesome. It was
kind of defeating,

watching all those
blue dots pull away

when you check it out
and you're like, "Okay",

and then it just
kind of settles in

that you got to realize you
got to run your own race

and it's between me and me

you know, me
and my thoughts.

Me, how far I
can push myself

and, um, I don't think I've
really reached that yet.

I've gone through
a lot of pain and
suffering out here but,

it's gotten...
Just cold, cold.

He's got a real
light shirt on

right in the middle
of the road. The crest.

The middle of the road!

Actually, to
the far end left.

As we see him,
you can't see him?

He's coming down the road.

No.

I see a little reflection.
He's almost a
yellow shirt now.

You're looking like
five miles out there.

No, it's less
than a mile now.

White truck
coming down...
Yeah.

Double the distance, he's
on the left hand side.
That's him.

Like a little reflection.

A little reflection.

See him now?

He's just crossing the...
You can't see the
color of his shirt?

Yes, I can it's either...
It's a white shirt.

Actually, I think
his light was the
cause of the reflection.

That's... I saw the
headlights, what I could see.

Look up and wave.

Hey! I'll buy you dinner

if you want to stop.

STEELE: Have the other guys
already gone through?

There is one guy
that went through.

Who's that guy?

I can't turn down
the free dinner, right?

That's right.
Come on, come on!
I'll buy you dinner.

I want dinner.

I know.

I'd be happy to...
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

All right.

And then, he told me...

Your sandwich.

Yes, I will pack all that,
just give me a second.

You need cash, brother?

No, no, I'm good.

That's better.
(LAUGHS)

Russell and Dave,

those guys were so awesome.

HALL: It's Portsville down...

(CLICKS TONGUE)

Town on the rivers

on creek crossings...

(SIGHS)

It's good to get that
out of the way with
that in the night.

It's just everything
in this. It just hounds
you all the time from...

You know, you started out
there and you're into mucky,

like, saw-teeth
climbs like this.

Seventy miles in, in 4000
is not a huge gap.

I just need to make
sure I don't make too
many mistakes and

and just keep moving.

I can see he's not
stopping that often

and I might be riding
a little bit quicker

but, um, I tend to stop more
often and eat and stuff,

so he catches up.

I better get finished tonight.

Oh, you've got to
be kidding me. What are
you guys doing here?

MAN: What
are you doing here?

I don't know what
I'm doing here.

This is, this
is a tough ride.
Yeah?

There's nobody else
saying? Everybody else
saying it's easy?

MAN: (CHUCKLES) No.
(LAUGHS)

Or, am I just the only one
hallucinating out here?
(CHUCKLES)

On a daily basis,

the conversations I have
with the cows are incredible.

My mantra for today is,

"Believe in the innate
kindness and compassion
of all living beings",

because all I found that
in the state of Kansas

is people who
care about you.

The first night,

I, I fought that
wind for eight hours
to go 65 miles.

It took me eight miles an hour

I got to the town,
the guy gave me a hotel room

and the lady kept
the restaurant open

even though it was closed.
Made me a steak dinner.

I woke up before
my alarm this morning
which is a bit odd.

Seems like I only
slept for four hours.

I have not really
got a goal in mind

'cause I don't know
what day it is.

So, I really do not
know that day it is,

I think it might be
Thursday, but I don't know.

You can't take
yourself too seriously

it's only riding bikes
at the end of the day.

You're not curing
cancer or anything.

(GROANS)
Well, I got here maybe about

12:30 last night.

(SNIFFS) And, uh...

Hey, I forgot there
was a ferry.

Quite a lot of bugs
there so...

They were trying to bite me.

But other than that...

I had a decent few hours
of sleep in the end.

Ah, it starts at 6:00 in
the morning. (SNIFFS)

So the first one's...

We've just missed I think.

I am ready for
my breakfast.

(METAL CLANKS)

And, I remember, um,
looking at it on
the map and...

Rings a bell there
was ferry ride but...

That's the last
bit of paper now.

They're just
significant towns.

So it's a breeze.

3189.

Oh, I don't know. I must've
been saying for
the past two days that,

"Oh, just three or
four more days."

And it always seems that,
that same distance away.

I always thought it will
be 16 or less, but...

We weren't, we weren't
really racing at the start,

I mean we didn't pace
ourselves too much.

I think it's just that, that

little bit longer
that you go out hard

like that and
then you just

blow yourself up
a little bit, I think.

MAN: Day what? 10?

Oh, no, dude, it's like 15
or something like that.

We just saw
Jesse and Juliana,

the Italians got by them,

uh, just as they
were waking up

and I know Juliana
is super motivated

to uh, to not let
the Italians stay
in front of her.

Yeah, Italians passed.

At least we slept good,
they didn't.

The other guys are behind us.

How far?

MAN: Don't know.

STAUFFER: I've said, "Hi."
"Hi and Bye!"

I just asked them
how they were doing and
everything, you know.

That's the first
time I've seen them
on the road.

(BARKING)

Are they close?

Did you see them?
MAN: Yeah.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Hasta la vista, baby!

That was awesome.

Nothing like a little
early morning racing.

BUHRING: One of the Italians
just rode up next to me
after I passed them

and basically accused me of
cheating to get this far.

He said that it's impossible
that, um, I've beaten him

after cycling just
two and a half years

and he has been racing his
whole life and it's impossible
that I am faster than him

so, therefore,
I must be cheating.

And, I said
"Really, how can we cheat?"

He said,
"You have a camper van.

"I know you have
a camper van following you."

(CHUCKLES) I was so angry.

She just graduated
from nursing school

got a job right out.

I just got a new job.
We just sold and bought
a new house.

Now she's pregnant.

It's like everything
is just kind of all
happening at once, so...

It's all overwhelming but

extremely exciting too, so...

Part of me was like,
I just want to go home

after like she told me,
but, I'm like "I got to go
finish at least."

My hand doesn't
function so I have to

shift with my
other hand.

MAN: What happened?
I don't know.

I think it's just from
the pressure of being
on my hands all day.

There's just
no strength in it.

Kinda looked like
he was little bit wore out.

(LAUGHS) He still looks
kind of wore out.

The sun, you know,
takes a lot out of people.

'Cause I know, I walk
every day, five, 10 miles.

I've done walk
five miles this morning

and I'll walk
back home.
MAN: Good.

Yeah! I'll walk up here.

People say, you know,
wonder why, I say,
"Well, I'm 67."

You know, I want
to keep my health.

I had this thing
already mapped out

that I knew it was on
the race route, so, I just

figured, well,

I might as well just
stay up and ride and

grab an afternoon nap
in the sun instead of,
uh, sleeping in the wet.

Y'all going
cross country?

Well, it should be
done Tuesday.
How far?

And, how far you got?

Huh, we've got
about 850 miles...

A little over 800 miles
left, we have done
3500 in two weeks.

Damn!

I just sit on this
thing all day.

Well, good luck!

Thanks guys.
Good luck.

I've got my emergency
ration of bagels and Nutella

which I'll probably
and may be have before
bed or for breakfast.

Pretty nice, little lifestyle.

You know, the whole trying
to be an athlete,

training all the time,

you know, pretending you're
not really a grown up and
just pretty much fun,

like everything about it.

Traveling real far places,

like going all
over the world and
doing crazy stuff.

Watching Eco-Challenge
when I was a little kid,

being like, "That is awesome."

Guys running
through the forest.

Ours is a coal mine place
but it ain't much anymore.

The way things are going,
you know what I mean.

Uh, I wish things would
pick up.

Wouldn't be...
Wouldn't be having
a yard sale,

you know what
I mean. (CHUCKLES)

Trying to pay the bills.

I talked to one
dude, he's like,

his first time he ever
done a cross country,

and he said...

But when he got here

and got these
mountains and he said,

"This is my last time
I ever doing it",

he said "I'll never do
those trails again."

Nothing but mountains,
nothing but curves,
steep curves too.

I don't see how
they do it, man.

HALL: Oh, that last bit of
road down was hectic.

Just weary.

It just doesn't seem to end.

I just want to get done.

Just start eating
everything in sight.

STAUFFER: Ice cream.
I love ice cream.

BUHRING: I, actually, tried
putting on weight before
I came out

because I knew I
would lose weight.

WOMAN: I've heard of
crazy people like that?

Define "crazy."

I think that's
entirely subjective.

I think crazy is sitting
behind a desk from
9:00 to 5:00.

WOMAN: I am sorry.
MAN: It's okay.

WOMAN: Here, I don't know
anything about you guys

but I know you
have to have food,

and I want you
to have that.

Oh, thank you.
You are such an angel.
Thank you so much.

Yeah! Whoo!

HALL: Yeah, I'm starting
to feel a bit spaced out now.

My hand won't
do certain things.

We were half way with

all the mountains done

in seven days,
seven and a half days.

I don't think you can
suggest that the
last part is easier.

Someone asked me about the
"Round the world" race.

I said to him,

"You know, when you...
When you want to do
it again and enjoy it,

"but if you enjoy racing,
then it's what you enjoy.

"Going slowly isn't
necessarily more enjoyable."

(DOG BARKING)
I've just got to sleep.

See if I can get a Coke.

(CHUCKLES)
That'll help.

MAN: Uh-oh!
Jesus Christ!

This is damned worse
than it was last night,
that's for sure.

Are you going to
miss the ferry, now?

(CHUCKLES)

Somebody can steal
whatever they want.

I'd be interesting to see
if the Italians show up though

'cause I don't think
the first ferry runs
until 8:00 tomorrow.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(GROANS) I am not in the mood
to deal with this right now.

(GRUNTS)

(GROANS)

Now what?

Ride 12 miles
and find something.

That's what you call
a long, fucking day.

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

(SPEAKING ITALIAN)

We didn't sleep
at all last night,
we just kept going.

Because of the heat,
I've been thinking then
to sleep, during the heat,

but, now that there's a lead
I don't think I'm gonna stop,

I am just gonna keep riding.
I'll sleep tonight.

He wants to sleep.
He keeps falling
asleep everywhere,

every time we stop,
I find him like laying
on the road, just like...

(IMITATES SNORING)
(CHUCKLES)

There are still
people in Colorado.
That's crazy!

That's what you
get for being slow.
Sorry, that's terrible.

(LAUGHING)

I like your shirt, man.
Thank you.

That's perfect for
a day like today.

That's fashion.
That's Kentucky fashion.

HALL: And, back there,
before, uh,

before Buchanan
went off the road twice.

Just not completely
off the road, but just,

(IMITATES SWOOSHING)

The first patch
of shade I saw,

I just laid down.

Look, I've had some allergy
thing today but that's not
doing any good either.

Things are swelling up
and rashes and
it's all just...

I think I'm suspending
doing anything about it.

This is probably the time when
you should be looking after
yourself the most, but...

I do just want
to get it done, but...

Everything is dead.
Everything is dying.

Seven miles up there.

(INDISTINCT MUTTERING)

MAN: Dude, he is going
for it. He's not gonna sleep.

Mount Vesuvius.

HALL: It's different for
everybody, really,
what constitutes adventure.

I don't necessarily feel
the need to live in a bigabag
consistently for two weeks.

And it's more about,
"Does it intimidate you?
Does it worry you that

"you're taking on something
a bit bigger than you thought
it was gonna be?"

Are you in front?

Yeah, I'm in
first place, yeah.
First place?

The next guy's maybe
a 100 miles back.
100 miles back?

Good God!
What, have you got, a motor
on your bike or something?

(CHUCKLING)

Normally, I have coconut pie
and chocolate cake
for breakfast but...

Here, you go, buddy.

You headed to Yorktown?
Yeah.

So, it's 200, about
200 miles from here.

(LAUGHING)

(GROANS)

Uh.

(EXHALES HEAVILY)

They're all right.
It's a good part of the...
Just part of the scenery.

But I can't understand
what they're saying.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

(ALL LAUGHING)

I will go there but
my boat ain't gonna
charge you that much.

(CHUCKLING)

What seems to be
the problem?

Okay, my gear's actually
not shifting very well.

I don't know if it's just
the chain that needs
changing or whatever.

All right, so,
first things first,
let me check your chain.

So, it was stretched well
enough that just changing
this should help

significantly.
Hopefully anyway.

(CHAIN CLANGING)

STAUFFER: Put the old one on.

I think the old one
is gonna work better
than that one.

I was afraid of that.

As soon as I walked
into that bike shop, yeah...

I hope she gets the old
one on and it works, but...

MAN: So, I've the
pin coming out.

No, I'm just going to grab
another chain and use it.

They're here.
The Italians are here.

Should be all right.
Thanks, man.

Oh no, don't thank me.

I feel terrible now,
you guys.

I'm so sorry
for the hassle.

Did it get fixed?
It sounded like it was
still skipping but worse.

Hey, did you see a girl
ride by on a bike?

Uh, no,
not yet.
Not yet? Okay.

Saw a guy.
Yeah.

It's very strange, she would
be going backwards on...
Yeah, but, it could just be

a fluke with
the dot, you know.

Hmm.

Backwards on the row,
that's just... Especially
in this area.

Shit, I seriously feel
like something's wrong.

We'll figure it out.

'Cause there's no reason you'd
punish yourself going up and
down these hills again.

So, you see her further down?
Yeah, she is down
at the bottom of this.

This is strange.

There she is.

Is she in there?
Yeah!

BUHRING: I was just going up
the hill, and it just snapped.

Too much pressure I think.
The guy, he didn't put
the link on very well...

I... I guess.

It was such a mistake
from start to finish.

She wanted to know where
a bicycle shop is and this is
the closest I could find.

They don't have
like bike stuff
here but apparently,

Randal can fix anything.

Let's hope you don't lie.
(CHUCKLES)

RANDAL: You don't
have buy new parts
intact with you?

Yeah, the body
parts, but...

That's what I was wondering.

I don't usually...

Like a car race,
if you blow the motor,
you're out of it.

I don't know
if you remember?

Oh, yeah, for sure.

Loose tires,
or chains, or...

We're gonna have to buy
some bike tools.

Let's leave them
right in there.

No, why don't we just
leave it like that.

Okay, so, it's supposed
to come right through that?

Yeah, like this and through
there and there, under...

A cable broke off
of it or something.

Probably costs as much
as a Harley.

(CHUCKLES)

BUHRING: You all right?
Yeah, hold on right there.

It won't cut better.

One side's braided...

BUHRING: Yeah, turn the pedal.

All right!
Wow, you guys...

I just hittin' the hammer.
Yeah, it's working.

You guys rock.

Well, at least
they did it.

Thank you, I really
appreciate it.

Now I have a beer in me,
I have a bit more energy.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

How long do you expect
to ride that tonight?

Oh, all night.

I'll just keep going 'cause
I have to put some distance
between me and the others.

I don't know where
I need to go.

It's been one
of those days.

Yeah, it's good
hillbilly quality,
tough as nails.

Whoo! Done!

Yeah!

(SIGHS)

(CHUCKLING)

MAN: That was a long ride.

That was too long.

Even managed to
creep into another day,
didn't it?

Cool!

(MARCHING BAND PLAYING)

(CHEERING
AND APPLAUDING)

That's not
a bad finish line.
(LAUGHING)

HALL:
Congratulations, mate.
Thanks, you too, Mike.

Good job.

It didn't seem like it was
ever going to end, did it?
Oh, jeez!

All right!

WOMAN: Hello!
Yeah!

WOMAN: Hey!

WOMAN 2:
Congratulations!

(LAUGHING)

Phew!

(ALL LAUGHING)

You're here,
you made it!

Yeah.

Yeah!
WOMAN: Very impressive!

Can't believe it's done!

Good work, Ed.

I've been up to go
anywhere but we keep peddling.

It's depressing!

I'm basically drugged up
because I've got a pinched
nerve down this entire leg

and my back
and it hurts so bad,
I can't even move my leg,

so I'm paddling
with one leg.

It's pathetic.

Hey, mate,
the Italians are coming.

I saw them.

(CHEERING AND WHOOPING)

(SIGHS)

Well done, kid.
Oh, Mike.

Come here.

Excellent ride, well done!
Very proud of you!

(LAUGHS)

You look dead.
Yeah, I haven't slept
in over two days.

Yeah, dude.

GUSKE: It's like I've kind of
been waiting for the moment
for a while and now,

it's actually happening.

Does it feel... Does it feel
real to you, yet?

I've been kind
of in my own...

Real world,
not real world
place, so...

An alien?

Yea, I know
what you mean.

MURARI: Yeah.
(CHUCKLES)

LAURETI: Yeah.

MAN: It was really hard.
(ALL LAUGHING)

Exhausting.

WOMAN: No, you're good,
Nathan, you can stay
in the picture!

Say "Cheese!"

(CAMERA CLICKING)