"Inside of me, back then, just a little bit of wanting to win this race started up and it's been building ever since".
Organized races started up five or more years ago in places like Minnesota, Alaska, Ontario and Manitoba, some being underground affairs with just a dozen competitors.
Nibali suffered a mechanical problem and had to borrow a wheel from a team-mate during the descent, but he regained contact with the bunch by the time the race started up Croce Ferratata, a 12km slog through increasingly dark and gloomy conditions as the rain closed in.
"Danger Bay was the first ever race starting up, Bricin was from Pender Harbour and he started the downhill scene," said Hannah.
It doesn't seem likely that the space race will start up again, but if it does, the decisions that kick it off will be taken in Beijing or New Delhi, not Washington, DC.
He will be supervising his crews of timers, water dispensers and marshals for the race he helped start up three years ago, partly as a means of raising scholarship money to help Harlem youngsters begin college.
After all, stock car racing started with bootleggers who souped up their car engines to outrun revenuers in the mountains of North Carolina.
The chatter of the sewing machine, racing and easing and halting and starting up again, was like a busy engine driving their days.
In March, as the presidential race starts to warm up ahead of the 2016 election, we'll be turning our editorial eye to the political environment and the ways tech is shaping politics, as well as how regulation and legislation is shaping tech.
Start-ups, racing to post profits, are particularly short on checks and balances.
