It occurs to me that in about 3 hours time, when this whole thing is done, 80-some rather intense individuals may be prone to experience an intense emptiness in the pit of their stomachs, a sort of a "now what?". Many will be thousands of miles many steps from home the fridge with a damn dirty bike armchair in very real need of some serious maintenance and TLC before they get a move on again, they're well spent, in just about every way you could be spent. But they are prolly jonesing for the adrenaline that coursed through their veins for the 11 previous days. I'm thinking it must throw you for a loop to have that adrenaline switched off in such a binary way.
The Germans prolly have a word for it, a la Fahrvergnügen, or Schadenfreude. If not, we should prolly coin one. Anybody know enough German and have enough LD experience to nail the word? (Prolly need one for failed BMW FDs, too)
