Leadville Trail 100

Find out how you deal with the altitude at the Leadville Trail 100 in this exclusive video feature from the Herbalife24 Basecamp.

We have a chat with Brian and Chris of Cycles of Life bike shop in Leadville, CO.

Get a feel for the 100 miles of Leadville trail that riders face in the 2011 Leadville Trail 100 race.

Nate covers his background and how he got started in mountain biking and now rides for Team Herbalife24

Rebecca Rusch covers her history at the Leadville 100 race and future plans.

Here's a look at the bike Armstrong rode in Crested Butte, and what he might ride if he did decide to take that pre-race helicopter ride.

CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. (ST) — Lance Armstrong won Sunday's 60-mile Alpine Odyssey race here, beating Greg Krause of Littleton, Colorado by three seconds.

CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. (ST) — Lance Armstrong won Sunday's 60-mile Alpine Odyssey race here, beating Greg Krause of Littleton, Colorado by three seconds.

Women's

• 1. Rebecca Rusch, in 04:51:37.58
• 2. Jennifer Smith, in 04:54:39.95
• 3. Jari Kirkland, in 05:08:41.33
• 4. Jamie Busch, in 05:37:40.03
• 5. Rachel Farrett, in 05:46:12.59

• 1. LANCE Armstrong, in 04:32:21.31
• 2. GREG Krause, in 04:32:24.49
• 3. TRAVIS Scheefer, in 04:33:48.22
• 4. CHRIS Muntro, in 04:52:28.22
• 5. NATE Brown, in 04:52:34.52

Team RadioShack’s Levi Leipheimer, winner of the 2010 Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race in his first attempt, is bypassing the opportunity to defend his title in order to compete at the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and the USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado.

Team RadioShack's Levi Leipheimer, winner of the 2010 Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race in his first attempt, is bypassing the opportunity to defend his title in order to compete at the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and the USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado.

From Leadville to stage races, endurance racer Rebecca Rusch covers a lot of ground in this interview...

300 spots up for grabs at unnamed events in California, Colorado and Northeast in June and July

300 spots up for grabs at unnamed events in California, Colorado and Northeast in June and July

At the premiere of Race Across the Sky 2010, Leadville 100 champion Levi Leipheimer said the race was tougher than expected

VIDEO: The Singletrack.com crew was out and about all over the Leadville area Saturday covering the LT100. Here's a few highlights from a day filled with them.

VIDEO: An exhausted bunch of racers dissect the 2010 Leadville Trail 100 in a post-race press conference. Watch Levi, JHK, Wells, Wiens and Jeremiah recount the race.

RadioShack's Levi Leipheimer won Saturday's Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race in Colorado in record time. VeloNews.com's sister site, Singletrack.com, provided full coverage including live text, galleries, results, race report and a look at the bikes used by the top riders.

Singletrack.com's resident tech guru Lennard Zinn caught up with Levi, Ned and Jeremiah to check out their Leadville bikes.

• 1. Levi LEIPHEIMER, Santa Rosa Ca, M3 in 6:16:37.2
• 2. Jeremy HORGAN-KOBELSKI, Boulder Co, M3 in 6:25:21.4
• 3. Todd WELLS, Durango Co, M3 in 6:30:31.1
• 4. David WIENS, Gunnison Co, M4 in 6:33:54.1
• 5. Jeremiah BISHOP, Harrisonburg Va, M3 in 6:33:54.4

Levi, JHK, Dave, Wells, Rebecca, Tinker and more: Check out the photos shot by Dave McElwaine and Rob O'Dea at the 2010 Leadville Trail 100 on Saturday.

If the Leadville Trail 100 was your second 100-mile mountain bike race ever, how would you set up your bike? This is how Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski is doing it.

SLIDESHOW: What's Dave Wiens Running at Leadville this year? Check it out in the Singletrack.com tech gallery.

VIDEO: Six-time Leadville Trail 100 winner Dave Wiens has gone up against the likes of Armstrong and Landis — and won. "I'm still here. I can go pretty good for a 45 year old."

The Leadville Trail 100 will see its deepest field ever duke it out, including Dave Wien Levi Leipheimer, Todd Wells, Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski and a host of other names start the Colorado epic.

Defending champion Lance Armstrong will not start the Leadville Trail 100 this year. Armstrong decided Monday to pull out of the high-altitude mountain bike race because of a hip injury sustained in a crash in the Tour de France.

Defending champion Lance Armstrong will not start the Leadville Traill 100 this year. Armstrong decided Monday to pull out of the high-altitude mountain bike race.

Dave Wiens says he's feeling "pretty good" about his fitness for the Leadville Trail 100 on August 14; at least as fit as he has the last few years at this point leading up to the race.

Leadville Trail 100 founder Ken Chlouber on Thursday announced he had sold his collection of ultra-endurance running and cycling events to Life Time Fitness.

Intervals and weight training are just another day's work for Dave Wiens as he prepares for the Leadville Trail 100.

Whether it's on the mountain bike or road rig, Dave Wiens works in the climbing as he trains for the Leadville Trail 100.

"Fo ahz hahd": Imagine Arnold Schwarzenegger saying, "four hours hard." That's a workout Dave Wiens learned years ago from Euro rider Gerhard Zadrobilek.

For six-time LT100 winner Dave Wiens, the road to Leadville is a well-trodden route, one he's written on and off about over the last few years in a training diary. Leading up to the August race Dave is once again chronicling his training, which we'll have here on Singletrack.com.

A broken wrist suffered at a little bike race held every July in France kept Levi Leipheimer off his Trek Top Fuel and from joining Lance Armstrong at the 2009 Leadville Trail 100. Before that, there was plenty of jawing between the teammates about the Race Across the Sky.

The notification date for Leadville Trail 100 applicants is slightly delayed, with hopefuls knowing if they are in the high-elevation race by Friday.

So far people from 98 countries have applied for the LT100 lottery, which ends on Jan. 31. Guess who doesn't need to ask for an entry...

With a little assistance from technology and the Ergon blog, Dave Wiens takes questions from fans.

Endurance champ Rebecca Rusch is hosting a five-stop mountain town movie tour of Race Across The Sky, the documentary of the 2009 Leadville Trail 100, which she won along with Lance Armstrong.

While details are still to come, the enduros are set for Sept. 4-5, 2010, in Leadville, Colorado — elevation 10,152.

A reader asks if there are any 180mm 2x9 specific cranks on the market, or are taller riders just out of luck?

I am a professional bicycle courier in Charlotte, North Carolina. The safest way to ride a bicycle in any traffic is to behave exactly as you would in an automobile.

So, what did ya think of the film about the Leadville Trail 100? Did you go? Did you like it? Hate it? Inspired? Laugh? Cry? Let's see your thumbs!

Has Ben Delaney ever been to California? His story on the 2010 Tour of California route begins with "The 2010 Amgen Tour of California will venture high up into the Sierra Nevada Mountains, ..."

Documentary on the Leadville Trail 100 will play Oct. 20. Those willing to pay can eat and chat with Lance Armstrong to raise money for Fort Lewis College cycling program and Trails 2000.

Is it any surprise that a movie of the 2009 Leadville Trail 100 has been made? Special screenings of the film will air October at select theaters. Check out the film trailer here.

Chalk it up to Livestrong, the elevation or both, but the heady "Lance Effect" was undeniable at the Leadville Trail 100.

Lance Armstrong (Mellow Johnny's) won Colorado's Leadville 100 on Saturday, knocking more than 15 minutes off of the old record, about a half hour ahead of six-time winner Dave Wiens. Armstrong rode about 60 miles alone off the front, finishing with a nearly flat rear tire. Armstrong ally Matt Shriver helped drive the pace in the early miles, powering a group of eight along the relatively flat mid-section of the course and into the base of the turn-around climb. Shriver hung on, despite problems with his cleat, to finish third.

Matt Shriver, one of the Trek-sponsored riders expected to ride in support of Lance Armstrong at Saturday's Leadville Trail 100, says he has his own goals, too. Armstrong told VeloNews Thursday that while he did not recruit a team of domestiques or pacers for the race, his sponsor Trek was "sending some fast guys" who could drive the pace in the first half of the race, making it more likely that Armstrong could break the course record.

Back in June, Levi Leipheimer and his Astana teammate Lance Armstrong were joking about using the Tour de France as training for the Leadville 100. But things got sideways when Leipheimer crashed and broke his wrist on stage 12. Still in a cast, Leipheimer will not be racing the 100-mile mountain bike race high in the Colorado mountains Saturday. But that hasn’t stopped him from talking some friendly smack. VeloNews asked Leipheimer how he would have expected the race to play out if he had been able to compete.

As we've already reported, several Trek-supported riders are on hand in the high country of central Colorado to keep the pace high as Lance Armstrong takes his second stab at the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race.

“Lance in Leadville” has a nice ring to it. The high altitude, 100-mile fire-road-heavy mountain bike race looks like an MTB event made in heaven for the Aspen-dwelling Texan. But seeing the man himself astride a mountain bike is still a touch odd, after his chiseled visage has been photographed for so long on road bikes.

Depending on how you look at it, Manuel Prado came within one and a half minutes, or 35 minutes, of the win at last year's Leadville Trail 100. By the time Prado (Sho-Air-Specialized) crossed the line in downtown Leadville, race winner Wiens and second-placed Lance Armstrong had finished their post-race interviews and were looking for a ride home. But Prado's third place was a lot closer and a lot more impressive than it seemed.

Trek, Lance Armstrong's bike sponsor, has sent a squad to Saturday's Leadville 100 to drive the pace with the goal of setting a course record.

Lance Armstrong is hoping a strong field will help deliver him to a victory in record time at this Saturday's Leadville Trail 100 in Colorado. The Astana rider told VeloNews Thursday that while he hasn't recruited a team for the race, his sponsor Trek has sent a squad to Leadville, including former pro Travis Brown. Armstrong is looking to them and to other top riders to drive the pace in the first 45 miles or so of the out-and-back course.

Dave Wiens dropped Lance Armstrong in the last ten miles of last year's Leadville 100, and cranked in to the finish in downtown Leadville with Armstrong breathing down his neck. Making it worse was the creepy sensation of a squishy rear tire, which nursed into the finish. When he crossed the line less than two minutes ahead of Armstrong he was almost riding on the rim.

As of Friday evening, The National Weather Service is calling for a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon Saturday in Leadville, and race organizers and racers are bracing for a possible wet finish to the race, which starts at 6:30 a.m. Earlier int he week the forecast was for a 30 percent chance of rain Saturday, and it rained off and on in Leadville Friday. Organizers are now hoping that many amateur riders can finish before the rain arrives. "I think God doesn't like slow mountain bike riders," said Ken Chlouber, the race director.

It’s hard to believe that during his record-breaking run from 1999-2005, Lance Armstrong suffered nary a mishap on the way to seven Tour de France titles. But the Texan hasn’t enjoyed quite the same charmed life since returning to the sport in 2009. He’s crashed, suffered, and, at times, appeared fairly mortal. In the final installments of our exclusive interview with Armstrong, VeloCenter host Jason Sumner talks to him about his year of firsts. First Giro. First time “in the ditch.” First time on “a team with such strong guys that can win races at anytime.”

Dave Wiens pulled away from Lance Armstrong in the final ten miles of Saturday's Leadville Trail 100 in Colorado, winning the race for the sixth time, in record time. "The guy that I raced today was not the guy who won the Tours," the modest Wiens said at the finish.

Lance Armstrong on Wednesday downplayed his chances of winning the Leadville 100 mountain bike race this weekend, saying a top-five or "on a good day, top-three" finish is more likely. "I'm not in it to win it, as they say," Armstrong told reporters in a conference call from Aspen, Colorado, where he has been vacationing and training for the 100-mile race, which starts in the considerably-less-posh nearby community of Leadville.

At the Leadville 100 last year, when Floyd Landis attacked on an early climb, then-four-time defending Leadville champ Dave Wiens matched the acceleration pedal stroke for pedal stroke. "For about 8 seconds," Wiens said with a laugh this week. "I realized I could stay with Floyd, but I'd never finish the race if I did." This Saturday morning when Wiens lines up beside Lance Armstrong in downtown Leadville, Colorado, for the 6:30 a.m. start, he has a similar strategy: let the Tour star ride his own race.

Lance Armstrong is preparing diligently for the Leadville 100 mountain bike race in Colorado, training in nearby Aspen to acclimatize to the altitude. As of Monday, Armstrong had ridden parts of the 100-mile Leadville course two or three times and was doing daily road and offroad rides, said Trek spokesman Ben Coates. "Lance is in Aspen with a couple of guys, one of them is a trainer that he is working with. He looks super fit when I saw him the other day, and he seems to be taking the race very seriously," Coates said.

The promoter of the Leadville 100, a 100-mile mountain bike race in Colorado, told a local newspaper that Lance Armstrong has registered for his race and is training nearby for the August 9 event. "It's huge for the race, of course, but even more grand and more meaningful to our community, because now the national and the international spotlight will be on Leadville," promoter Ken Chlouber told the Summit Daily.

Five-time Leadville Trail 100 mountain-bike race winner Dave Wiens was first across the line again on Saturday, but Floyd Landis — despite a bloody crash early on — finished right behind him in second. Wiens completed the out-and-back course in 6:58:46, bettering last year's finish of 7 hours and 13 minutes, with Landis crossing less than two minutes behind him. Mike Kloser was third, some 10 minutes off the pace. Landis, riding on a surgically repaired hip, told The Associated Press that he crashed about an hour into the race. At the finish he sported scrapes on elbows and forearms,

Chris Eatough collected his fifth national 24-hour solo mountain-biking championships on July 29 at Wisconsin’s 24 Hours of Nine Mile. The six-time world 24-Solo champion went blow for blow with Nat Ross (Subaru-Gary Fisher) before finally pulling away from the Coloradan during the night. While 24-Solo racing is still considered a fringe sport for the physically tough/mentally insane, the 2007 U.S. championships featured an impressive 45 entrants. Still, Eatough has taken a step back from his bread-and-butter this season, and has spent 2007 diversifying his racing. The Maryland native won

Lance Armstrong announced Thursday that he will not be racing the Leadville Trail 100 mountain-bike race in Colorado. "Lance had a scheduling conflict come up and he regrettably cannot participate in the event," said Mark Higgins, the seven-time Tour de France champion’s manager. Armstrong's successor as Tour champion, Floyd Landis, also has expressed interest in racing the Leadville 100. But the event carries a NORBA sanction, which means Landis would not be able to compete should he be suspended for a positive testosterone test at the 2006 Tour, unless organizers decide to proceed

Embattled Tour de France winner Floyd Landis will compete in a 100-mile mountain-bike race in Colorado. The Leadville Trail 100 in August will mark Landis' return to off-road racing, which he left in 1998 to focus on road competition. "I'm looking forward to getting back to my roots. Training for Leadville will be great preparation for a return to the Tour de France," Landis said in a statement Tuesday. Landis, however, would not be able to compete in the NORBA-sanctioned event if he is suspended for a positive testosterone test at the Tour de France. Seven-time Tour winner Lance