The following day she made it to the finals, shaving off 0.23 seconds for another personal best time and new Asian record of 57.54 seconds.
Despite racing through freezing rain at the start, which made it difficult to shift gears on the foreboding descents on a flat back tire for the final 10 miles, Armstrong shaved nearly 17 minutes off the record, winning in 6 hours 28 minutes 50 seconds.
Overton would continue to grow this mustache until immediately before his final flight, when he shaved it off.
They are baked twice and then shaved, lending the final product a velvety surface ($42, bobbibrown.com).
The field will be shaved to the Final Four, with semifinals scheduled for April 1 and the national championship game on April 3.
As electric clippers whirred in a plaza outside Safeco Field, 5,258 people, including 112 women, had their heads shaved for the final Buhner Buzz Night, a promotion celebrating the city's soon-to-retire bald baseball hero Jay Buhner.
In his final minutes, she said, he pointed his Glock at her as he shaved, but she had already picked up his revolver.
It scraped along the final miles, not only shaving off one of its whiskers, but also cutting its speed sharply.
The 31-year-old former Liverpool, Hull, and Tranmere man shaved off the beard before North End lost to Rotherham in last season's play-off semi-final.
