Tour Divide Race: Day 18, Antelope Wells At Last
In a couple hours the 2009 Tour Divide race, a self-supported, 2,745 miles down the spine of the Continental Divide, will have a winner. Matthew Lee, who spun to the lead at the start in Banff is now in his finishing sprint down Highway 81 south of Hachita, New Mexico. If he doesn't bonk or mechanical (he's nursed his original chain from Banff which has taken a licking in this year's Old Testament weather), the Cannondale rider will win Tour Divide for the second year in a row. He's also a Great Divide Race champion, winning that border-to-border race in 2005 and 2006. This is Matthew's sixth straight year of racing the Divide.
He's followed by Cat-1 cyclocross racer Kurt Refsnider. In third place is the tandem team of Jay and Tracey "T-Race" Petervary, riding and racing a tandem the complete route from Banff to Antelope Wells for the first time. The Petervarys are followed by single speeder Chris Plesko, who is positioned to break existing Divide single speed records.
The race follows the Adventure Cycling Association's Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. Tour Divide has no entry fee and offers no prize money. Watch the finishing sprint via the SPOT satellite leaderboard at tourdivide.org.
--Jon Billman
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