Dan bilzerian running challenge6/22/2023 You avoid serious pain on your rump from sitting on the small road bike saddles, and in your upper back from leaning over when tucking. Riding a recumbent bike is a lot more comfortable when spending many, many hours riding, and would be the primary bike I would use on this ride. I met up with Bob McCall there (Bob is a long time biker who runs a cycling company Cycle Vegas and who helped train Dan on the bike for his challenge in Vegas) and took Dan’s orange recumbent bike “orange sherbert” out and rode back and forth on a relatively flat Las Vegas street for a total of 18 miles that night (Tuesday). Later that day (Tuesday), I met up with Dan, rented a road bike, and went back to his place. First strike against me, I had been playing poker for 14 hours a day for 5 days straight Thursday-Monday on a bad sleep schedule doing NO exercise!Īfter leaving the game, I did 30 minutes on a stationary bike at Panorama at about 5:30AM before going to my home in Summerlin and sleeping – my first “day” of training. I played until 5AM Tuesday morning (!!) and quit the game. I decided to give Dan a piece of the bet, in return to have him set up my support team (the same crew he used), take care of the logistics, use his recumbent bikes, and provide any other help possible. I would have to do it by Friday midnight, unless I played until 5AM Tuesday morning, in which case I would have until midnight Saturday to leave. So I gathered up my courage, shook his hand late Monday night, and we had a bet. I also thought it would be fun to challenge myself like this and I was getting long odds. I knew this would be extremely tough and it would be my life for this week. That said, over the last few days I had talked with Dan Bilzerian and one of his coaches, Nate, and they seemed to think that with these conditions I would be 25-40%. Given my healthy respect for Baysian inference as a poker player that makes me worry a little bit. He's a smart guy and he's had a few days to think about it and/or talk to someone. I’m a bit nervous, as it seems like he thinks I can’t do it. There was some controversy about the drafting, but I believe Dan won the bet fair and square. I kept placing more bets and was really in for a good sweat on this one. He seemed pretty confident and I liked what I was hearing. Because I’m friends with Dan, I called him at various times to ask him how his training was going. At the time, it was the most I’d ever wagered on a prop bet. The first couple bets I made were with the exact same rules as Dan and Bill’s original bet, and the later bets were with the modifications that I would lose if Dan died or was arrested, and that no time was added on the clock for any reason. I ended up making a series of bets with Bill and some other people. Over the next couple weeks, thinking about the bet I decide Dan has a major advantage and want to bet. I think it was also something all parties were amenable too, so it was nice that nobody left heading to the bet with a bad taste in their mouth about the situation they were in. I make my arbitration which I think was really the fair resolution to the situation. does he have to take the highway (which is a shorter route start-to-finish, or can he do the same distance but on side roads where it's 100% legal). One question is about what happens if Dan gets pulled over by the police and arrested, and the other was about the exact route Dan had to take, e.g. Wow what a crazy bet!! Within a couple days, I get a call from Dan and Bill asking me to arbitrate a couple issues for them. So I hear about this bet like everyone else and am thinking. He could use a number of bikes, and have a crew to support. The bet was Dan had 48 hours to ride a bike from the Las Vegas sign to his house in the Hills in LA or vice-a-versa. I bet on Dan Bilzerian to complete his bike bet vs.
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