Next day, the TV station interviewed the guy who hit the deer, and he said he just grabbed onto its neck and held on until they got to the shoulder and they wiped out.

Those bike racers were really something. At the beginning of the showing, the directors said it has resulted in divorces, but I couldn't find out which of them that was.

The TV news said they were going 40 mph. I thought it was nice that the road was closed so they could skateboard down it - it's up the face of Lookout Mountain, lots of switchbacks. Buffalo Bill's grave is up at the top.

It's really well done - the scenery and the music are perfect compliments to the story. One thing that makes it real is there is not a cameraman assigned to each racer all the time. Most of the time the racers are out in the wilderness alone, and don't see other racers for days, so the vignettes we see are more precious, and we get that sense of isolation and waiting to hear from the racers to hear where they are and how they are doing. There were four guys who stayed together, and they came in third - a tie for third place. At night they stayed in motels and they ate junk food from the gas station. One of them was vegan, and it was funny to watch him try to find something uncooked and vegan in a convenience store. He decided green stuffed olives met his requirement, although I think they got cooked in processing.

I expected the TV news to tell us the deer was okay first, and then mention that the skate boarder was also not seriously injured. All he had was some road rash.