105 miles today into Lamar, Colorado, decided to stretch my legs a little and let the mule have its head. Wind was quite kind to me. Crossed into Mountain Time, which means I've ridden clear across a time zone, I entered Central Time when I left Florida, and left it today. So now I'm 7 hours behind you lot, not 6.
Early night for me, good wind tomorrow gonna try to make the most of it, north to kit carson or maybe even limon if things go well, or camp somewhere in between
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hey I was looking at your elevation gain, then compared it to my first MTB race in Colorado which I found: here is the info:
Technical Information
Distance 5.3 miles
Start Elevation: 9,080 feet
Highest Point: 11,142 feet
Total Climbing: 2,062 feet
it took me 53 mins! came 18th out of 35 in beginners category...
(Actually it is ace, http://www.epicsingletrack.com/default.asp has all my results from 2001 season beginner class 19-29 - missed 1 race with collapsed lung and one race was called off on the last turn due to adverse weather after 1 1/2 hrs of racing, I was annoyed with the series and missed the next one, still ended the series 14th out of 91- can you tell I have just found the result site and have something else more important, yet less fun to be doing? another word of warning, it was only towards the end of the series when the weather was warming up a bit which is August, at 10,000 ft in May you could still get a few snow days, on the bright side you could do a day of snowboarding?)
I suspect you will be up against a similar challenge in the next few weeks! so enjoy this slow elevation gain on the plains; it's going to get nasty! :D
Apologies - last post was ridiculously self indulgent. defiantly came out of jealousy!
Good work Kelv, Keep your head down and eat up those miles :D
Hey, Not sure which rouad you will take to Laramie, but if you head through Estes Park in Rocky Mount state park you will go past the Stanley hotel from the Shining.
REDRUM
Tis a bit out of the way mind...
Just aswell your not going thru Virginia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7372537.stm
hah curly i can see i'm triggering your competitive urges, that first post was like listening to you jerking off!
Just remember - kelv's don't compete
good results mind
i think we'll be in for some snow for sure, i gotta get some more cold gear i reckon
pretty sure we'll be in boulder for at least a day, is kinda depending on when i actually make it to denver, so we'll decide in couple days
darren - hah yeah man i saw that, those things are scary. Am entering bear country now, but all i gotta do is run faster than bert, should be ok, it's why i invited him for this stage really
by the sound of things you'll be sat in jammers fire red convertible snorting coke off a suitcase whilst I'm fending off lions with a pedal spanner.
I've stocked up on the cold gear kit, was contemplating just bringing all my boarding gear and be done with it!
see you saturday...
Apparently its going to be a Chrysler PT cruiser convertible - so it might even be ugly enough to scare the bears off...
Hey James, you should perhaps double check that it has a good heater and a set of snow chains and there are no tears in the lid ;)
Wrap up well Kelv, its gonna be cold tomorra -
http://www.wunderground.com/US/CO/limon.html
Insane weather - 18°C colder than today!
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