Leadville 100 Mountain Bike Race 2009 Sponsors
Coca-Cola joins Cannondale, Soleus, Vasque, Power Bar, Lifetime Fitness and several other sponsors in bringing to life the 2009 Leadville 100 mountain bike race in Leadville, CO this weekend. This grueling, mostly singletrack race at high altitudes in the Colorado mountains is the race of the year for mountain bikers.
Lance Armstrong will have to work hard to avenge his lost last year to Dave Wiens. Lance is considered to have a better shot this year due to just coming off this years’ Tour de France and being much more fit and ready. But do not for a second confuse this race with The Tour. The route of the Leadville 100 may not climb as high or for as many days as The Tour but The Tour does not have the terrain of a trail like the Leadville 100 Trail. The trails are different, the bikes are different so the training has to be 
different. It is rumored that Lance took a mountain bike with him to train while on a family vacation in the Bahamas. Though he has obviously spent a lot of time in the saddle of his road bike we all know Lance well enough to know that he will be ready. It is obvious he doesn’t like not winning, even if “not winning” simply meant second place last year.
Lance will have some stiff competition to deal with. The man who beat him last year, Dave Wiens, is a six time winner of the race and the third place finisher last year, California resident and Costa Rican national mountain bike champion 28 year old Manuel Prado has been training more intensely than last year. Though he himself expects Lance to win today, he plans to give him a good run for his money.
The race is in progress now so check back tomorrow for results and highlights.
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