Lance Armstrong finished just short of 2 minutes behind the winner of the Leadville 100 mountain bike race today. Six-time defending champion Dave Wiens finished in 6 hours, 45 minutes, 45 seconds; 1 minute and 56 seconds in front of Armstrong.
[Via SI.com]
CPA staff Cathi Cannon also raced Leadville today. She finished in 12:46. Way to go Cathi!
Thanks to the Greenville News, the UOG received some press for the first time! Mike Foley profiled three Greenville area UOG participants and threw in some rogaine history also. You can read the entire article HERE.
If you’re like me and stuck at work while the Tour de France is live, at least you can listen online. Just head on over to Eurosport’s Tour de France page. Go down the page about half way and click the button on the right side of the page labeled “Live audio”.
I find the flat stages a little boring to listen to, but the mountains provide lots of action. My top three TDF GC contenders (in no particular order): Evans, Sastre, Valverde.
Ever heard of Buster Martin? Me either until this morning. As it turns out, Buster will be running the London Marathon this weekend. While running a marathon is certainly a great acheivement, Buster’s marathon will trump your marathon. Why? Well, let’s just say Buster is a senior. To be exact, he’s 101 years old.
Buster is trying to become the “world’s oldest competitive runner.” For a guy 101 years old, he certainly doesn’t look like it. After finishing up a half maraton, these were the first words from Buster: “Where’s my beer?” Gotta love his spunk.
It’s been exactly a month since the Ultra O-gaine started on June 8th just outside Chattanooga, TN. 24 hours later, the event ended and months of planning came to an exciting conclusion. Jon Barker, from Team Checkpoint Zero took home first place in the Ultra (24 hour) course. In the Half Ultra (12 hour) course, Team Toccoa (with some of my old teammates) took home first place. Congratulations to both Team Toccoa and Jon Barker for their first place finishes!
Robert Milks from Wilderness Adventure Photography was out on the course and took a bunch of pictures. Drop by his website and pick up a few pictures for your collection. Jim Farmer took a few pictures too and you can see them here.
Patrick and I would like to say thank you to everyone who came out and participated in the UOG this year. We have received some amazing feedback from everyone and from our survey results everyone really enjoyed themselves. Those participants that have raced both UOG’s said this years race was much more enjoyable. We really went over the feedback from last year and made changes that we felt would make it a more enjoyable event. We’re very glad it seems to have paid off.
A big thank you to our volunteers (Colleen and Marc) and to our sponsors Hammer Nutrition, myTopo, and Zanfel. We look forward to seeing you at another one of our events. Best of luck to you all for the rest of your racing season!