LEADVILLE!

Landis and Dave Wiens chatting at the start of the 2007 Leadville 100. Wiens wins when Landis flats; both beat the old record. (photo: UltraRob)

LEADVILLE!

Phone reports say: Wiens breaks 7 hours in 6:58; Landis 2nd after a crash and flat, also breaks old record.

Rollout, Wiens immediately behind the left bumper, Landis just behind and right of him. (Photo: McCusker)

The official site has a timing/scoring page that is starting to get information.

Checking out the Raspberry early on. No scab yet! The bionic hip looks to have been tested as well as the knee. (Photo: McCusker)

At Pipeline pass going out, it's a group of five.

20 mile lead group (Photo: McCusker)

1	0001	Dave Wiens	M4	08:15:00/001:45:00
2	0569	Mike Kloser	M4	08:15:00/001:45:00
3	0795	Bryson Perry	M2	08:15:00/001:45:00
4	1218	Max Taam	M2	08:15:00/001:45:00
5	1220	Floyd Landis	M3	08:15:00/001:45:00

Wiens leads Max Taam (Photo: Ultra Rob)

At Columbine Mine, the turnaround, there's a group of three:

1	0001	Dave Wiens	M4	10:08:00/003:38:00
2	0569	Mike Kloser	M4	10:08:00/003:38:00
3	1220	Floyd Landis	M3	10:08:00/003:38:00
4	1218	Max Taam	M2	10:17:00/003:47:00
5	0004	Mike Hogan	M4	10:24:00/003:54:00
6	0016	Thomas Dooley	M4	10:24:00/003:54:00
7	0007	Ryan Hamilton	M3	10:25:00/003:55:00
8	1223	Thane Wright	M4	10:25:00/003:55:00
9	0002	Jake Rubelt	M3	10:26:00/003:56:00

Game face very on. (Photo: Ultra Rob)

At the Pipeline, the last station for a timecheck, it's down to Floyd and Dave:

1	0001	Dave Wiens	M4	11:25:00/004:55:00
2	1220	Floyd Landis	M3	11:25:00/004:55:00
3	0569	Mike Kloser	M4	11:30:00/005:00:00
4	1218	Max Taam	M2	11:38:00/005:08:00
5	0004	Mike Hogan	M4	11:46:00/005:16:00
6	0016	Thomas Dooley	M4	11:47:00/005:17:00
7	0007	Ryan Hamilton	M3	11:49:00/005:19:00
8	1223	Thane Wright	M4	11:49:00/005:19:00
9	0002	Jake Rubelt	M3	11:54:00/005:24:00

This is 5:00 faster than Wien's winning time last year to Pipeline two. Wiens is a four-time (in a row) Leadville winner - an old bio can be found in this MTB hall-of-fame nomination.

We got a phone call saying Landis went down after missing an obstacle because of sun, caught up to Wiens, then flatted and finished a couple of minutes behind, both breaking the old record. Great for Wiens, who was pressed hard, and a good outing for Landis, who was said to be pretty happy about it.

1	0001	Dave Wiens	M4	13:28:46/006:58:46
2	1220	Floyd Landis	M3	13:30:30/007:00:30
3	0569	Mike Kloser	M4	13:40:23/007:10:23
4	1218	Max Taam	M2	14:01:27/007:31:27
5	0002	Jake Rubelt	M3	14:04:51/007:34:51
6	1223	Thane Wright	M4	14:07:02/007:37:02
7	0004	Mike Hogan	M4	14:07:42/007:37:42
8	0007	Ryan Hamilton	M3	14:12:16/007:42:16

Landis rolls in 2nd. The scab is now good and formed.

The bike is a BMC, and looks to be a Fourstroke FS02 in polished aluminum, with a Fox suspension fork, disk brakes front and back. He said at one point he'd use a hard tail, but apparantly he's turned wimp. From one of Ultra Rob's pix, it's clear Landis has the full-suspension, and Wiens a hardtail. Landis has one bottle, Wiens two. That must have been the difference.

Fatty Dug crashed and abandoned. He is not worthy. He shows a picture of a section of Powerline/Pipeline with folks walking up, saying "it really is that steep".

Fatty says, "And they all have gears"
(Photo: Fatty)

Aside from training, another reason Landis may not have been answering his iPhone lately is that AT&T wireless had been down in Leadville, with a bunch of fumphering from the spokespeople. Supposedly now fixed.

Glendora Mtn Road is a good place to go, and UltraRob has great pictures from pre-start Leadville as well. Here's a pre-race sighting from GMR:

Pre-start. Looks chilly, but the kid is happy! (Photo: McCusker)

Startline report, and a 20 mile update has Landis in lead group of 5 at the 20 mile mark, sporting a bloody raspberry.

Ultra Rob a does a quick post-race report with some more great pictures.

AP story has quotes; see the Roundup; Velonews mixmasters AP.

5-Iron thinks that if Floyd can do so well at Leadville on a "bum hip" then he, 5-iron, should get off his duff and get going. Good plan. TBV has a 75 mile ride planned for Sunday, "flat" with only 5000' feet of climbing.

Biking Bis reports on Floyd Landis bloodied but second at Leadville today, and gives us a plug.

DrunkCyclist has a stand-in gives a quick-n-dirty report, waiting for the D-man to recover enough to take the keyboard himself.


GMR, it doesn't hurt to ask. We got credentialed for the hearing! Thanks for the reports and pix.