Tenmile Range

This is a picture taken today from Breckenridge. We'll be going over this. Obviously the high country has gotten some snow with these recent storms we've had. This will make crossings of the Divide interesting.

Main Tracking Page

At the top right of this page I have created some links. The one listed as Main Tracking will have everyone's SPOT. On the right will be a focus page for each racer and that will tell you some pretty cool info along the way. From this main page you'll be able to see everyone's progress or just view one persons progress. You'll be able to see their average speeds and even hear their call ins. There's a real slick chart that's been created and it'll display each racers time to particular points along the route. I do not believe that there are designated call ins this year but I will be calling in at Bailey, Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, Leadville, Buena Vista, possibly the Princeton Hot Springs, Silverton, and Durango.

Many of the adolescents I used to work with in residential were gang bangers. Some of them were pretty hard core and had the scars to prove it. I've always been fascinated with the gang lifestyle, and the signs/symbols used for communication in their tattoos and graffiti and talking to my students about it was always interesting. One of my favorite shows is Gangland and several months ago they covered a motorcycle gang that was originally from Colorado Springs called the Sons of Silence. We have a lot of motorcycle traffic that passes through town here and I was surprised that we had never seen any SOS after watching the show. I saw this gentleman at the Royal Gorge. I wanted to talk to him but Heather put a major kaibash on that.

We both got up to check on Bodhi throughout the night and he seemed ok. This morning he was up at 7 chewing on his favorite toy so that made us happy. I just fed him some rice and a bit of food and he licked the bowl clean. Hopefully it'll stay down.

Weather could be a major issue for the race and Heather aint happy about it. It rained all night and now it's in the upper 40's with lows tonight in the mid to high 30's. Breckenridge will see storms all week with highs in the low 60's and lows in the mid 30's. If this is the way it's gonna be I think the passes and segments 22 and 23 could be very sketchy.

Right now we are having coffee and sitting in front of a raging fire.

Bodhi got us up at 0630 this morning throwing up. He did this for about an hour and a half and, not to be gross, but there was nothing but what I would guess is just stomach fluids after that. He was fine for about 45 minutes and then it all started up again. No real contents to it. He looked terrible. Tail down, ears back and his demeanor was really mellow. Definitely not the Bodhi we know and love. We took him into the vet at 1000 and they checked him out and gave him an anti-vomitory med. He hasn't eaten all day and wont drink much either. I did get him to drink some Gatorade. If this continues into tomorrow, the vet wants to do an xray and see if there is something blocking his intestines. Really worried about the big guy and I don't need this just days before leaving.

Ready to roll

This is it. The rear bag is holding as minimal of a sleeping setup as I think I wanna go with especially with the wet and colder conditions that we've had this summer. The front bag is holding rain gear, base layer, 2 different types of gloves (perhaps overkill but I don't like cold hands and I think there may be some times this year when I'll ride through the night), long sleeve jersey, arm and knee warmers, 1 pair of wool socks and a hat. Right now the SPOT is in the front pocket of the handlebar bag. I'm hoping it can transmit through the fabric. I'm not comfortable with it being out of sight since I lost my other one that way. Obviously I would love for things to be lighter but I dropped a ton of weight from last year and I'm not sure where I'd cut it now. I've thought long and hard about the clothing I'm bringing. Even during the day, I think it's been significantly cooler this summer and for sure at night. I dicked around too much last year. If I'm not taking in food or actually sleeping this year...I'll be riding.

The leaderboard (where you'll be able to go and see everyone's SPOT simultaneously) is being created now and should be done in a day or 2. I'll post a link to that under the link to my shared page. I'll also figure out where the call ins will be hosted and provide a link for that. Thanks for looking.

Bike as pictured is 35lbs. so there's 10 lbs. of gear.

Canon City

There are many things in Canon City. Buckskin Joe's. The Royal Gorge. The World's largest suspension bridge. There are also numerous prison facilities including the Supermax (which if you'd like to know what the inside looks like....talk to Heather). Today we went on down to see what was poppin'. It's kinda like a mini Silver Dollar City. A real mini one. Here is Pablo trying to strike it rich. Unfortunately all he found was fool's gold

Here is the gorge. It's actually pretty impressive. The bridge over it was crazy. It's a small fortune to check it out though. There is a tram that goes across it. There is also an incline that goes down into it. We did it all.

I saw this car in CC and thought it was cute.

I also saw this car in CC and it made me want to vomit.