The world’s biggest, toughest mt-bike race is under way, and actually the winner is almost done. It’s looking like it will take him about 15 days to ride the 2500 miles from Canada to Mexico along the Continental Divide, a route that includes some 200,000 feet of climbing.
Several racers are still a few days from finishing however. You can get easy updates on how they’re doing as they phone in their progress and the news gets put up on the official Race Blog at the link included.
You can post your own encouragements. So far the racers don’t seem to have been able to check the blog much themselves, but people who’ve helped them along the way have posted info.
This is a friendly, self-supported race where several of the racers have been riding together and helping each other, and where friends and bike-shops along the way have also helped a lot. A couple of the racers rode over a thousand miles to the start.
A rider that I sponsored, Kent Peterson, is doing it on a singlespeed BMX bike. Cool! It seems like he’s in 2nd or 3rd place maybe right now. There’s an interactive map with updates, but things happen “fast” so who knows how it will end up!
I hope that the self-supported racing movement catches on. Next year should be the inaugural Trans-Am west>east across the US self-supported race hosted by Chris Kostman.
https://greatdividerace.blogspot.com/
