Race Across The Sky

[Irulan]

Sure hope this doesn't mean more roadies who can't handle real singletrack and getting dirty start mtn biking.

The Leadville 100 is mostly jeep road. Out of 100 miles of race course, there's less than five miles, if that, of singletrack. The general consensus as I understand it is that LA did so well because of the lack of singletrack. He set a brutal pace on the non-climbing sections of dirt road. I'm not discounting the difficulty of doing 100 miles of dirt at elevation, I'm just saying it ain't singletrack is all.

Now a race like the Cascade Creampuff, that is 100 miles of singletrack, that might be a different story.

I ditto the comments on the inspirational stories and that it was a little heavy on the Lance stuff. I really wish they would have said how many women overall were entered, looked like very few to me.