The email notice of the latest post reminded me to reply.
Leadville is a beast of a race, my last endurance race was a 50 miler last August in the north GA mountains and I finished in around 5 hours. Leadville I survived in 8:28, finished it though, this is a great race and now that I have a bone to pick with it I will be back next year.
Sunday rode boy scout loop in Glenwood, what a fantastic ride once you hit the single track, that rolling section on the edge of the canyon before you descend into town is amazingly fun, so much so we did it 3 times before we went down into town.
Monday planned on riding the epic from snowmass to aspen but then got to snowmass and decided to spend the day riding up on the gondola and bombing down and what a great decision that was because we didn't realize how cooked our legs were until we rode up from the bottom of I think powerline to the base of the gondola.....really dead legs.
As stated earlier in this post I'm a XC rider mainly but i have to say the downhill runs were absolute adreneline fueled grin producing funnest $hit ever even on my XC bike. If I lived out west I think this is all I'd ride it is that much fun. 1st run dude broke his arm but he should not have been up there and I have no idea what he was thinking, 2nd run kid cut his knee to the bone and I had to apply a torniquet on him, he was an awesome rider about 14 yo but he just wiped out in front of me.
Thought we were cursed so we went and had burgers and beers at the bottom and then got in 4 more runs and that was really cool as well having that kind of break during a ride.
Anyway thanks for the input from everyone, I'm really envious of the riding ya'll have out there it is truly a great place, I've been going my whole life skiing out west but now I will be making 2 trips a year........at least!
best
Greg
