Leadville 100 is tomorrow
Now, just to remind you guys: Leadville 100 MTB race (a.k.a. The Race Across the Sky) is tomorrow. I passed through Leadville, CO last week and cannot wait to see/hear/read about the rematch of the last year’s race between Dave Wien and Lance Armstrong. Lance looks lean and mean (from his Twitter pics) and after winning the 12 hours of Snowmass Colorado MTB championship he means business. If luck is on his side (no mechanicals), he’ll be hard to beat. With decent weather the winner might even come under 7 hours again, even break the last year’s record of 6:45:45. But I wonder if someone else decides to sneak up on the two heavy favorites and snatch the trophy away… I’m rooting a little more for David Wien. Lance has his 7 Tour de France wins, I want Wien to get his 7 consecutive Leadville 100 trophies too;) Whoever wins, it’s gonna be a helluva interesting race. Definitely a huge publicity boost to MTB marathon racing in the U.S. Some links for more:
Enjoy the race;) I hope that one day I will line up on the start and ride this race as a personal challenge…
RESULTS (08/15/2009): No surprise here, LA demolished the field and won in a new course record of 6:28:50, David Wiens ended up second in a little under 7 hours. (Singletrack.com: Armstrong wins Leadville in record time) It was really fun following it on Twitter as the webcast was a complete waste of time, at least according to folks who subscribed to it.
PS: Still uploading my Tour Divide pics, little by little;)
