Leadville Silver Rush 50 MTB was one of my favorite biking race experience - mountain biking in Leadville at its best! It's also the second race of the Leadman Ultra Marathon Challenge, a gruesome multi race series of both Ultra Running and mountain biking MTB in Leadville Colorado. Beautiful view, but true to what I love about the MTB community - it's the people (and dogs...) that were amazing!
What a weekend! After running 50 miles in Leadville on Saturday, I’m now lining up to redo the whole course on my mountain bike. Up until Sunday morning, I was resigned to skip this one. My knee coming out of the run was painful, and I needed all the rest possible to prepare for Vermont 100 miles in only 6 days.
Maybe 50 miles + 8,000 ft on bike doesn’t sound as hard, but for me with my limited skills, it’s quite a challenge! And of course, I was still sore from the run. Still, I know I can physically push through that, but I need to be extra careful about crashing - a fall, even if not terribly bad, could prevent me from racing Vermont 100.
But, despite all this, I really wanted to challenge myself on this course. It’s the perfect dress rehearsal before Leadville 100 MTB in a month. The 50 miles is shorter…obviously…but it is more technical. It can also give me a good sense of how I will do on the 100 milers - my goal for the day is sub7 hours. Looking at year past, sub7 at Silver Rush would imply ~12hr at Leadville 100 (the cutoff).
Turned out it was a great decision to race! No regret, and now I will go face the beast with renewed courage. In the meanwhile, next stop is Vermont 100 in 5 days for the Grand Slam.
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• New Day - by Ikson
• Beat your competition - by No Copyright
• Future Me - by Infraction
• Manga - by Infraction
• Just Evil - by Infraction
• Claps - by Mokka Music
• Shocked - by Infraction
• Trip - by Infraction
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