Salt Lake Tribune – Flooding, cold add to the already rugged race

We’re currently in Moab, on our last day here before moving on to Salt Lake. We arrived the first day of the race and wondered then with the weather how things with the big race were going. Turns out there was so much water on the course, they stopped the race at 8pm and resumed the next morning. So “24 Hours of Moab” became “13 Hours of Moab” and few of the riders complained, as many of them came in with hypothermia and complaining of waist-deep water on the course.

There are always a lot of people with bikes in Moab, but this weekend there were huge SUV hauling clusters of dark, no-nonsense mountain bigs everywhere, including in the parking lot of the hotel.

It’s cloudy today, so we may do some geocaching instead of driving out to Canyonlands. More later in a big post I’m working on.

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