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Lance Armstrong, American bike rider and cancer survivor wins the bizarre and brutal Leadville 100 in record time. A photo and video blog.

<img alt="Lance Armstrong crosses the red carpet winnind the Leadville 100 in 2009" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2428/3825618421_dd2945f34d.jpg" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: medium 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; WIDOWS: 2; ORPHANS: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">On August 15th, a small group of us left Frisco in the morning to glimpse the famous <a title="official website of the leadville 100 won by Lance Armstrong" style="COLOR: rgb(7,102,156); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.leadvilletrail100.com/">Leadville 100</a> mountain bike race.  This brutal race starts at 6:30am and has a twelve hour cut-off.  I believe there were 1,500 riders signed up, but a few hundred backed out.    From my research, I understood that most of the first 40 or so miles has been friendly, but after the Twin Lakes feed station, people put down the hammer to try to make time on the Columbine Mine climb;  we chose the base of the Columbine Mine climb as our spot.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: medium 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; WIDOWS: 2; ORPHANS: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><img alt="Waiting for Lance Armstrong at the 2009 Leadville 100 outside of the town of Granite" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3445/3826413682_6e05da0a13.jpg" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: medium 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; WIDOWS: 2; ORPHANS: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: medium 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; WIDOWS: 2; ORPHANS: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">As it turns out, we calculated the race correctly, and a lone rider came down the dirt path with incredible speed and began the climb. This fuzzy but telling video shows Lance Armstrong, in his <a title="official website of the Livestrong organization" href="http://www.livestrong.org/site/c.khLXK1PxHmF/b.2660611/k.73B5/Home__Cancer_Survivorship.htm">LiveStrong</a> helmet, as he powers away from the field and up to the base of the climb. He broke off from a speedy group of 8 some time after the 40 mile marker and he rode the rest of the race alone.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: medium 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; WIDOWS: 2; ORPHANS: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: medium 'Times New Roman'; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; WIDOWS: 2; ORPHANS: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="300" width="400" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param value="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=b988656814&photo_id=3826413206" name="flashvars" /><param value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" name="movie" /><param value="#000000" name="bgcolor" /><param value="true" name="allowFullScreen" /></object>Three minutes after Lance started up the climb, a group containing Dave Wiens, the 44-year-old champ who has won this race 6 times in a row cruised by us and began their ascent.<img alt="David Weins chases Lance Armstrong up the Columbine Mine climb at the Leadville 100, 2009" hspace="0" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3523/3826414076_10cca0121e.jpg" align="baseline" border="0" /> By the time Lance passed us again, he had put 10 minutes into Wiens and eventually beat him by 7.  Lance broke the course record by 15 minutes and nursed his bike over the red carpet to the finish with a flat tire.  A team of bike enthusiasts encouraged riders up the climb. 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