Lance Rides Part of Leadville 100 Course

July 6th, 2007

Update: he didn’t race in 2007 but Lance Armstrong has entered for 2008.

On July 1st, Lance Armstrong rode 45 miles of the Leadville 100 mountain bike course with his long time coach, Chris Carmichael. Carmichael says that Lance is looking fit and riding well off-road.

Lance bailed on doing the race and claimed he had a scheduling conflict just after Floyd Landis said he was also doing the race. A couple months ago my doctor said that he had heard Lance was still doing the Leadville 100. Here’s what Carmichael had to say about it.

Of course, now that he’s ridden part of the course, everyone wants to know if he’s going to race the Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race on August 11. I don’t know, yet. He liked what he saw and was impressed by how hard some of the climbs are, but his schedule is pretty packed. He originally had to cancel his plans to do Leadville because of a schedule conflict, and it remains to be seen whether he’d be able to squeeze it in somehow. I’ll keep you posted.

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July 5th, 2007

Sea Gull at Resurrection Bay, Alaska
I’m still alive and well but a zombie right now. I’ve been in Alaska for the last 9 days and got back this morning on an overnight flight. I had originally planned on trying to go when I could do a race. With my fitness being so off I decided it didn’t matter and went when we could get the best airfare. It’s a bummer since the Fireweed 400 is this weekend. I finished 2nd there in 2003.

We had unbelievable weather the first few days and then more normal Alaska weather for the last half of the trip. We saw some amazing sights and I have lots of pictures to get uploaded.

Unfortunately something went wrong when I used the card reader on the laptop. Always before I’ve just used the USB cable from the camera. When I tried copying files to the laptop, they all showed up as thumbnails but I kept getting an error trying to copy. I put the card back in the camera and tried copying them the way I normally do. My heart sank when I noticed that most of 3 days worth of pictures where no longer shown on the card. The ones that are left are listed twice. My guess is that most of the pictures are still there but are lost bits on the card. I know there’s software that can sometimes recover lost files but I haven’t used any since the days of MS DOS. Anybody have any suggestions?

There are lots of pictures I’d like to get back but the important ones are of the kids sitting in the train engineer’s lap blowing the whistle on the Talkeetna to Hurricane flag stop train, a couple wolves in Denali National Park, some pictures of the kids at Denali National Park and some moose. Maybe there are some other ones I’ve forgotten too.

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