I’m not a huge Rick Reilly fan. But his piece on going up against the great Timo Kaukonen in the World Sauna Championships is hilarious:
Okay kids, today’s activity is to go down to your local Pizza Hut, have the oven set for 261° and insert your body into it. The tips of your ears start to ignite. The backs of your arms scream. Your throat burns as if somebody had stuck a tiki torch down it. Your lips feel bitten by large, unseen raccoons. And you haven’t hit 30 seconds.
Now do it for 10 minutes or more, and that’s what it’s like to compete in quite possibly the world’s dumbest sport: the Sauna World Championships.
I know. I entered.
I’m looking forward to the inevitable Onion piece. “Does Cambodia threaten our world dominance of sauna?”