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Registered for the big race today, starts tomorrow at 6am, if all goes well I should be done before 4PM. 4,500 meters of uphill makes for about 15,000 feet of climbing in about 80 miles. I'm scared. Really scared.

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Anonymous said…
Dude, you'll do fine. Jesse and I are reading this before we go to dinner with the koko's. We are rooting for our favorite bike racer. I think this is a good way to see how you rate with the rest of the world. You should be in good shape and have a good bike. Go fer it.
4:58 PM, August 20, 2005
Anonymous said…
you should just give up and go to the brewery tomorrow. PS. Leipheimer is leading the tour of germany right now. go Butte!
5:01 PM, August 20, 2005
Anonymous said…
don't be a pansy, I could do that on a track bike with slicks
5:03 PM, August 20, 2005
Anonymous said…
The race got called off after 7 and a half hours due to a storm rolling in. I was at the second to last checkpoint, with 30km and 3000 more feet of vert to go. As it was, I passed hundreds and hundreds of people and found myself somewhere in the top third or quarter of the people there I think. I passed Tinker Juarez like he was standing still about half way throuh (he was getting his bike fixed, standing still) Then he blasted by me like I wasn't moving.
It was a cool experience, lots of little villages with kids handing out banana halfs and bottles of water and ice tea, all the roads were closed down. I think i read that the race has thousands of volunteers.
The weather was real nice for riding until the afternoon, mostly cloudy with a bit of sun here and there. The course was a lot of fire road and some real nice sections of singletrack, and nice views of swiss valleys.
Strangely enough, out of the 1400 or so competiters I ran into one of the other 5 or so americans who happened to be from Missoula. He was a good guy, we hung out drining hot vegitable boullion after the race was called off waiting for the bus back to Verbier.
Thats enough for now
1:01 AM, August 22, 2005
Anonymous said…
352 out of 562 people who were still riding when they called the race. I'll take it.
9:03 AM, August 22, 2005
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