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By Jason Sumner for Cyclingnews.com | Monday, Aug 1, 2011 7.45pm

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As the Crested Butte Mountain Resort Subaru pace car pulled off from its lead position the racers were

free to open it up as they hit Slate River Road and things got underway (Trent

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Rebecca Rusch and Lance Armstrong each took late-race wins in the final Leadville Qualifying Series

Race, held on and around Crested Butte Mountain Resort, in the sun-splashed Colorado Rockies on

Sunday.

Rusch, winner of the last two Leadville 100 races, used the help of a strong group to erase the

advantage of second-place finisher Jenny Smith, catching the solo-riding Gunnison, Colorado-resident

about 10 miles from the finish of the 63-mile race that included two giant fire road climbs that rose

above 11,000 feet.

Smith did all she could to hold Ruschs wheel as they speed to the races finish, but couldnt keep pace.

Crested Butte local Jari Kirkland was a distant third in a race that had 201 starters, and served as a last

chance for wannabe Leadville 100 racers.

About 100 riders earned the chance to contest the famed high-altitude race on August 13, either by

placing high in their age category, or winning a spot via a post-race lottery.


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A last minute addition; it was announced at the racer meeting on Saturday evening that this years

Alpine Odyssey would be joined by some pretty lofty company. Sure enough, at 6:29 am, 1 minute

before the race began Lance Armstrong joined the field of competitors at the Starting line below Mt.

Crested Butte Photo courtesy: Trent Bona, www.trentbona.com

Armstrong fell into the former category, winning the overall and his 40-49 age group. But said

afterwards that while 63 miles on Sunday was fun, he had no interest in suffering through the 100-miler

two weeks from now.

Im old and Im retired, he said.

But based on Sundays action, you would have never known. The seven-time Tour de France champ

shut down a one-minute gap to eventual second-place finisher Greg Krause all during the final six-mile

singletrack section that wound around the shoulder of Crested Butte Mountain Resort.

Thats usually not my specialty, said Armstrong, who was riding a 29er hardtail. But for some

reason today I sort of felt in the groove and was able to come around the guy on the last downhill. That

definitely surprised me.

Armstrongs winning time of 4:32:31 was just 3 seconds better than Krause. Crested Buttes Travis

Scheefer took third.

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Scheefer and Armstrong as he hauled past Gothic Mountain in his big ring Photo courtesy: Trent Bona,

www.trentbona.com

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Overall the first-year event was hailed a great community success, and organizers say theyll be back

for at least another two years.

[Crested Butte Mountain Resort] jumped all over this from the word go, said race director Dave

Ochs, who puts on several other local CB mountain bike races throughout the year. They are really

trying to get their bike park rolling and get bike events going here. Its kind of like Leadville itself,

where the idea is to get all types of riders involved.

They have trail here that are really easy for the newbie tourist types. Or you can throw on the pads and

get after it on a bike. It used to be dead up here. But now theres a huge change and its been

unbelievable.

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