My cycling journal
From the monthly archives:
Standing in front of the Leadville Courthouse at 5:54pm on August 15th, it occurred to me that for the first time in a long while, I had nothing to do. I did need a shower pretty badly, but besides that, my schedule was completely empty. Wow, what a strange feeling…
I started preparing for [...]
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If you ride a mountain bike with any regularity, you already know what this is about. If not, you may be surprised to learn that you are going to crash if you ride a mountain bike, so just expect it.
Sometimes crashing happens in predictable ways. Like, you know you shouldn’t have bombed that [...]
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The shotgun went off about a half second early. The blast surprised me as I counted down the last 10 seconds to the start of this year’s Leadville Trail 100 MTB race along with 1,232 other riders. I half-expected to start moving at the sound of the gun, but with about 800 riders in [...]
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I used this really cool tool called Screenr to put together a little photo montage of my Leadville 100 race. There’s some good shots of Lance and Dave Wiens in there too.
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I’ve spent the last eight months focused on earning this. I did it.
I wonder what’s next…
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11:24 – more to come.
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Look who showed up at the aid station to cheer on Lance! Anna Hansen is in blue with Max in the sling. Lance’s mom Linda has her back turned in black.
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