from www.star-telegram.com
By RICKY TREON

CLEBURNE — Talk about pulling an all-nighter.

For competitive 500-mile riders at the Texas Time Trials, the goal is to sleep as little as possible during the 48 hours or less they are on their bicycle.

Vickie Tyer came into the event expecting to go sleepless because she wanted to finish the 500-mile ride in 38 hours.

“My theory was to go straight through without stopping to sleep,” said Tyer, 54, who lives in Grandview and works at Fort Worth’s John Peter Smith hospital. “I had it figured out that that’s where I’d be if I didn’t sleep.”

link to the full article at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram