GDMBR up date

After 10 days and 1423 miles the "love-shack"of Jay&Tracey Petervary looks to in a three way tie for 2nd with Chris Plesko, Kurt Refsnider all three are in Rawlins WY. Chris and Kurt may have an upper hand they covered less miles this morning and arrived about an hour before the love-shack...what a race!!!!

Jay posted some pics you can find them here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/JPetervary/DivideRoute09?feat=embedwebsite#
could that be a cool www.MTBTandems.com sticker on the top tube?



this from an e-mail I sent out has some good links:
Thought some of you might like to see/follow this race.
"Tour Divide is a solo, self-supported mountain bike race on all 2,745 miles of ACA's epic Great Divide MTB Route. With an average time-to-completion of three weeks in the saddle, this grand tour is the longest, most challenging MTB race on the planet." (For sure and complete with Bears)

They started last Friday in Banff, Canada. and end in Antelope Wells, NM
(Mexico boarder) currently most of the racers are around Lima, MT.

We have a couple of local racers entered this year Deanna Adams from Prescott is riding a fixed gear and Brad Mattingly from Flag.
Christi and I are cheering for the Mt Tandem of Jay and Tracey Petervary who were running in fifth as of last night. GO LOVE-SHACK!

you can find the daily call-in's here:
http://mtbcast.com/wordpress/

the Spot leader board is here:
http://tourdivide.org/leaderboard

past photos can be found here:
http://tourdivide.org/photos
(set up so you can follow along with the race)

Have a Great ride everyone! watch out for bears :]
Billy B