SCENES FROM CHIMNEY ROCK ROAD
ON THE WAY TO PASO ROBLES
Stage 5 of the 750 Mile Amgen Tour of California is the longest. Racers would ride 135 miles and climb 10,000 feet.
Closure of the Pacific Coast Highway rerouted the race to run from Seaside, near Monterey to Paso Robles.
By the time the racers got to this junction of Lake Nacimiento and Chimney Rock roads, they had raced 125 miles.
A top running racer crashes.
I asked the Marshal if he got to keep the bike.
"It is my bike" he shot back.
The story of the day was the racers, who had completed King of the Mountain legs at Laureles Grade and Carmel Valley, sprints and another King of the Mountain between Lake Nacimineto and San Antonio Reservoir. Hard work in beautiful country.
See you down the trail.
A better question would be how many of the racers were loaded up on drugs, ala Lance Armstrong!
ReplyDelete"Loaded up on drugs..." on as you say? These guys race bikes 135 miles, up mountains. I say, as long as they are not hurting their bodies with the "drugs" why not or who cares? This is a sport of human fete and if those humans require "medicine" to prepare or treat the body, what is wrong with that? There should be parameters, based on health issues and natural standards of competition.
ReplyDeleteYou expect these guys to race like this, year after year and not need or want medication-what are you sadistic?