Bike Marathon

Before i die i would like to complete a bike marathon whether it be across a big city like New York, or across rough terrain like by a mountain. There are many places across America that hold these marathons yearly, like Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and many others. To be able to complete a bike marathon will take a lot of conditioning because biking that long across rough terrain can be very grueling. To be in good enough shape one must start training every day before the race to be ready. Eating healthy and biking everyday will help tremendously. To help better prepare for the marathon biking longer distances each day will get your cardio higher and you won't get tired as fast. Bicycle races are known all over the year and some countries like Italy, Spain, Germany, France, and others are known for their devoted bicyclers. There are many types of races like road races, track cycling, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, BMX, and others. The most popular races are the road races that can be raced individually or on teams. One of the biggest road races is the Tour de France, which is one of the biggest bicycle races in the world.

Bike by Cody Leiffer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Bungee Jumping

Bungee or also spelled bungy jumping is the act of diving off a very tall structure with an elastic band attached to your legs and when the elastic stretches out too much it rockets you back up into the air until you stop completely hanging in the air. The thrill of this crazy action comes from the adrenaline rush that you get when you free fall through the air and it seems like nothing is gonna catch you then all of a sudden the cord tightens and you go flying back up the way you came. People jump from many different places, mostly from a structure that is immovable, however some people have bungee jumped from movable objets like a hot air balloon and a helicopter.  Bungee jumping began when a film crew brought back footage of land divers that would attach vines to their legs and jump to show their courage and pass into manhood. The highest bungee jump ever recorded was in 2005 when AJ Hackett bungeed of the Macau Tower and free fell 764 feet. There are many risks, injuries, and possibly death which is something to be considered, however the enjoyment and rush that you can get from free falling is something that i want to experience before I die.




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Scuba Diving

Before I die I would like to scuba dive at the Great Barrier Reef. The Great Barrier Reef is located off the coast of Queensland, Australia and is said to be the best place in the world to scuba dive. SCUBA, or self-contained underwater breathing apparatus is the tank that you put on your back that allows you to breathe underwater. The scuba tank is much better than snorkeling, free diving, and the airline; the tank allows more range and longer time underwater. However before going out and scuba diving, there a few things that you have to do first. There are multiple ways you can get certified, for example, online and a class. To get certified you have to go through a course and take multiple test runs in a pool with an instructor. After proving that you can handle yourself underwater you will be ready to take on the real thing and head to the most beautiful scuba diving spot in the world, the Great Barrier Reef. At these reefs you can see many things such as ship wrecks, coral gardens, thousands of species of marine animals, as well as under water canyons.





People SCUBA diving by Derek Keats is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Skydiving

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What do you want to do before you die? There are hundreds of possibilities that come to mind when making a bucket list. Ever since I was young I have always wanted to sky dive. The rush that you must get free falling from the sky must be an adrenaline rush like no other. However, to really appreciate this experience I don’t want to go tandem I want to jump out of that plane by myself. To do that you must first go through a sky diving course. There are a couple ways to go about this other than going tandem; static line training and accelerated free fall. Static line training is when you go up in the air in a plane and you jump out of the plane and the parachute is already deployed in the plane. This allows the jumper to experience about 2 or 3 seconds of free fall. Accelerated free fall is when the diver jumps out of the plane with two instructors that will assist the diver, but they aren’t attached. Static line training costs about 175 dollars while the accelerated free fall is a bit more expensive at 275 dollars. After about 15 to 20 jumps each with different tasks divers will be able to jump out of the plane without an instructor. 

Tandem Skydiving Anticipation with Skydive Paradise, Queenstown, New Zealand by skydiveparadise is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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