After spending the better part of 15 hours on the Mic yesterday at the Breckenridge 100, it is clear who is running the most difficult, most incredibly daunting, most beautiful, most cool, most best 100 mile mountain bike race in Colorado if not the country, if not the world. Three MEGA loops of riding, with the majority of it singletrack challenged over 400 riders. Here is the beauty of it, you can also line it up and ride a 32 or a 68 mile version of the race on the same course at the same time as the 100 milers as the "short" versions which start at 10:00 am as opposed to the hunge that starts at 6:00am. You can also do the entire 100 or 68 as a relay team with each rider doing one of the 35 mile loops which are all different, it's just the coolest. Josh Tostado won the men's version of this beast for the sixth year in a row, but only by 8 minutes over Joey Thompson. Yari Kirkland decimated the women's field and also finished 17th overall, an amazing ride. Mark Thompson finished tenth, ON A SINGLESPEED, WHAT? Nearly 13,000 vert of climbing, most of which is over 10,000 feet beat the competitors into mere mortals, but they ALL were winners, what a great day to call a race, perfect weather, perfect people. You make it possible for a race announcer to stay excited all day, even if its a 15 hour gig! What a blast! Thank you racers!Find your results
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