How To Get Down Off An Elephant: Last Post, More Pix from Breck

So I’ll spare you more of the “push uphill, ripping fun downhills” as that’s pretty much how the rest of the week went. Just a couple of stray observations...

But as we headed over Mt Guyot, and reached the Continental Divide, at the top is a bunch of folks who are doing a “Skittle handup.” Handling out a little candy to lift the spirits!

Skittles at 12,000+ ft
("If it wasn't so stoooopid hard it wouldn't be epic")

And a couple of days later, as I was on a switchback or two from the top of Wheeler Pass on the Ten Mile Range, there was the VERY strong scent of hickory smoked bacon wafting down from the just-out-of-sight top! Turns out that a couple of different folks were cooking bacon and doing a “bacon handup” to the racers. Again, this is just a sample of the “seriousness” of this race. The race with no cash prizes, where folks hand tubes, tools and tires to others in need on the course. Where folks take care of each other in the backcountry.

Makin' bacon at 12,000 ft.

So I guess it turns out we had a pretty good household

Dan: 6^th Solo Men Singlespeed

Eric: 9^th Solo Men Singlespeed

Mary & Rebecca: 1^st Duo Women

Kristi: 3^rd Women 40+ (Breck 3 Day)

Michael: 9^th Men 50+ (far back, and out of only 12, but still...)

Krisiti makes the podium!

Mary and Rebecca did a truly amazing job since they traded the lead EVERY day of the week with another team. On Friday they were a minute and a half behind the other team, but in the end, after 250 miles of racing over 6 days, they won by just a tad over 6 minutes. That is some exciting racing!