Led by our fearless leader, Rob Leipheimer, the Outdoorsman crew of JoAnne, Jon, and myself are gearing up for the Grand Tour of Mountain Biking, better known far and wide as the Tour Divide . The start of the 2011 version of the 2,745 miles single stage totally unsupported race from Banff, Canada to Antelope Wells, New Mexico is a week away.
It’s truly an international field consisting of 85 racers from 11 foreign countries and 24 US States. At approximately 9:00 am on Friday, June 10th 72 racers will depart from Banff, Alberta Canada, while 13 riders will start at the opposite end of the course in Antelope Wells, New Mexico. See http://tourdivide.org/2011_start_list for the official start list.
According to the official Tour Divide website http://tourdivide.org the “Tour Divide is the longest–arguably most challenging–mountain bike time trial on the planet. It is a challenge for the ultra-fit, but only if ultra-prepared for myriad contingencies of backcountry biking.”
Stay tuned to the Outdoorsman FaceBook page for daily race up-dates and racer information. And, if you want to follow the race progress first-hand tune into MTBcast hosted by Joe Polk at http://mtbcast.com/site2/ . Or, log on to the Spot Tracker Leaderboard to get real-time racer positions at http://tourdivide.org/leaderboard .
There are also 13 Individual Time Trial racers tackling the GDMBR later in June-August.
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