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Originally Posted by bossy22
And they're off! Craig Stappler from Calgary is racing in the Tour Divide again. Last year he was leading along with the eventual winner, when Craig's pedal blew up. He had to wait a bit to get parts, before he could continue.
They race from Banff to Antelope Wells New Mexico.
http://tourdivide.org/leaderboard
Craig is currently in the lead
http://trackleaders.com/tourdivide13...Craig_Stappler
Yes a little boring, but he's a great guy, so I'm cheering him on. There will be blog updates, which are kind of interesting. These guys and gals suffer out there. |
I've been reading up/following this quite a bit over the last little while.
It was disappointing to see Paul Attalla (Fernie) drop out of the race due to injury yesterday. He started a couple days ago and was close to a record pace before he got hurt.
It looks like both Craig Stappler (Calgary) and Mike Hall (UK) are sleeping at Butt's Cabin tonight...the same place Jay Petervary stayed last year on his record setting ride. There might also be a couple other riders making it there tonight as well.
Someone posted a bunch of cool photos of all the bikes taking off from Banff this morning.
http://s1314.photobucket.com/user/St...?sort=2&page=1
Also... This year Billy Rice (Texas) is trying to become the first person to ride the route twice in a row, from the Mexico border - to Banff - back to Mexico border. He'll cross into Canada this morning.
http://trackleaders.com/tourdivide13...Billy_Rice_ITT
I'm looking forward to following all the little blue dots for the next few weeks!