Comments on: The Hammer’s LT100, Part 5: A Good Fight

By: Chilly Willy

Chilly Willy — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 15:45:48 +0000

“My time wasn’t going to define my happiness.”

Awesome! That is inspirational.

By: MarkM

MarkM — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 10:29:07 +0000

Great write up and great ride. Fatty’s advice of a secondary goal really helped me. This was my first Leadville and my first ride ever at elevation. My goal was sub 12, which I knew was gone at the columbine turn around. My second goal was to be an official finisher, which I got at 12:51. Knowing that was still out there till the end really kept me going.

By: owen

owen — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:00:39 +0000

riding bikes in CO is never stupid.

That is an excellent point. – FC

By: Jeff Dieffenbach

Jeff Dieffenbach — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:37:40 +0000

I took part in riding Fatty and Reba’s Leadville Experience:
- Mon Aug 10 – Columbine: 15.4 mi, 3,300′
- Tue Aug 11 – Powerline: 19.1 mi, 2,220′
- Wed Aug 12 – Pipeline-Twin Lakes: 14.2 mi, 1,010′
- Thu Aug 13 – Start/finish: 10.0 mi, 590′

I added the Mineral Belt Trail Thu afternoon for another 13.0 mi and 790′. My total for the week was 71.7 mi and 7,910′. I know that Fatty and Lisa did Columbine a day or two before the Leadville Experience, and apparently some other riding as well.

My riding that week was decidedly NOT stupid … at least, not for me. Wed and Thu were pretty moderate, so it wasn’t like I was hurting my legs then. And Mon (Columbine) and Tue (Powerline) were WAY more valuable from a course intel/don’t-freak-out-on-the-descents perspective than any damage they might have done to my legs.

GREAT Leadville Experience week, Fatty and Reba!

The “stupid” part was that Lisa and I rode Columbine and Start – St Kevins – Carter and back in the 2 days BEFORE the LT100 group rides. And I tended to be the guy leading the group rides out so was going harder than I should have been (so as to not hold anyone up). – FC

By: davidh-marin,ca

davidh-marin,ca — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 05:37:00 +0000

@VA Biker
Yes she did! 10 minutes faster back than out. She IS The Hammer.

By: VA Biker

VA Biker — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 01:47:34 +0000

Another great write-up! Those of us who don’t race do love reading these. Always.

Unless I’m reading the race report times wrong, you did capture the negative split you were after…

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 22:17:56 +0000

Just wanted to comment…you weren’t joking about hot. I wasn’t in Leadville (I was suffering on another mountain instead) but I was dreaming about Coke for about 4 hours myself. The weather was absolutely ridiculous that day.

By: rb

rb — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 21:03:26 +0000

Great job Lisa! I had the privilege of riding near you until the bottom of the Turquoise Lake road descent. For all the beating yourself up, you were the picture of effortless power. (perception/reality/truth…)

Fantastic to find the smile and cross the line with it. If you’re not smiling, then why the heck are you doing this anyway?!

Finally, Fatty is clearly fired from shoe shopping and tapper planning.

By: Flying Ute

Flying Ute — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 19:42:45 +0000

Lisa,

You are fast!!!! Great job racing! Loved to hear the report. I am going to make sure Mark reads this. Ha ha

Also, I’m sure you would have hammered a sub 9 if you hadn’t ridden Columbine and Powerline the week of the race….Let alone the 5 times or whatever nutty combined number you did.

Awesome Job!

While walking the dog last night, Lisa and I were talking about how much riding we did in the 6 days we were in Leadville prior to the race. So I came home and did the math on Strava.

I was a little shocked.

The climbing total came out — between 8/8 and 8/13 (the race was 8/15) — to 13,648′. And 110 miles.

We then took one day off riding before doing the race.

That was just stupid, to be honest. – FC

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 18:29:07 +0000

davidh – Sweet, thanks for the explanation! I knew she finished in awesome time before reading the report but every mention of the loud brakes kept building suspense in expectation of something bad happening. Glad it’s mostly just annoyance factor.