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- At the Precipice – Riding Sonora Pass by Adventures on a Bike on Oct 22, 2009
The air is chilly at 9,628 feet atop Sonora Pass in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains. I’d spent the last hour and a half climbing ever so slowly to the pass and now I was considering the unthinkable – descending the other side. “This has...
- Three times the screw by Adventures on a Bike on Sep 4, 2009
Thirty-six hours before I was to board my flight to Colorado to race the Leadville 100 I was riding peacefully in my backyard canyon, trying to keep my legs loose. That’s when I felt a terrible “ker-chunck!” from somewhere and felt my bike sag...
- So, what’s next? by Adventures on a Bike on Sep 1, 2009
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...
- 2009 Leadville Trail 100 MTB Race by Adventures on a Bike on Aug 27, 2009
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 th...
