Tour Divide Race: Day 13, Record Pace
In a couple of weeks in a race called the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong will try to prove that he's the Matthew Lee of road racing. Right now Matthew Lee has dropped Marshall Pass into Sargents, Colorado, over two hours ahead of his record pace set in last year's Tour Divide. This is commendable considering tough conditions in the first half of the race. Lee is nearly a day ahead of second-place rider Kurt Refsnider, who is followed closely by single speeder Chris Plesko and the tandem team of Jay and Tracey "T-Race" Petervary. Alaskan Jill Homer heads into the Great Divide Basin of Wyoming this afternoon a solid two days ahead of the women's record. Follow the satellite tracking SPOT dots as well as check archived Divide racing records at tourdivide.org.
Eleven riders have dropped out of the race, leaving 31 racers strung out along the Continental Divide from the Idaho-Wyoming border to Matthew Lee in southern Colorado. Also on the course is a mystery racer challenging the record in an Individual Time Trial. He left Banff a few days after the Tour Divide start on June 12. My resources show him rolling for Pinedale, Wyoming.
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