• bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip
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    6 days ago

    How does one even roller blade across the continental divide? I guess you could take I 10 thru thru the desert but that is equally crazy.

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      6 days ago

      Well he was hit on “country club road”, doesn’t sound like an interstate. Even under Trump the USA hasn’t detoriated that far.

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      6 days ago

      I mean there are people that ran across it. Some guy did it 5 times lol. Rollerblading doesn’t seem that bad by comparison.

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        6 days ago

        Running would be safer…

        You can just step off the side of the road, even a bike could ride on gravel and minor road debris.

        Rollerblades need near perfect surface to function. Even a rumble strip would push him closer to the road, and roller blades need a wider path that running or a bike. Even in a traffic lane would be difficult for long stretches.

        Like, I’m trying to cut the guy some slack since he’s Norwegian, but if he was living in America he should have released this wasn’t really possible.

        Not even getting into the mountain/desert issue