TD Race Updates

Gooooood evening everybody. Ten to eleven, its JayP and T-Race with the Love Shack. We are in Moran Junction presently. Had a nice ride today…was up at Leak’s Marina getting some pizza. Yeah, things were pretty smoothe…pretty motivating today to go through Idaho and into the big wonderful state of Wyoming, presently looking at a big sky filled with bright stars and a nice temperature. We are going to go for a bit longer since we are on road and, um, yeah, overall it was just a really really great day and thanks for everybody for being out and following us, and uh… T-Race, you got anything to say? (T-Race) Nope. (JayP) Ok, its almost nighttime and um, yeah, thanks, see ya. Bye.

Hey, this is Rick calling in from the Tour Divide.  Notes from the back of the pack.  The four of us that were staying at the, actually five of us, that were staying at Seeley Lake left this morning.  Deanna and Brad were going to try to make it to Helena today.  Martin and Jeff and myself left later and we are here at Lincoln right now.  I did alright but my knee is still hurting it doesn't allow me to stand up and pedal any, so, on these climbs I'm constantly sitting on the seat, which, causes a problem with my butt.  But we'll see how much longer it'll take to get this knee squared away.  I don't know if I can last much longer with just pedaling up these passes with one good leg.  I havn't been able to stand up and pedal since the border when I first hurt my knee.  But we'll go ahead and plug along and see how it does.

Listen to the latest call from this racer here!

Organizer's Note: Please note that moving forward along the route using any means aside from one's own pedal power is strictly forbidden by Tour Divide rules.

Hi everybody, it's Cricket Butler.  I'm in Butte, came back rode south of Butte yesterday afternoon when I got in and felt really bad and felt the best thing to do was to go back to Butte and get some sleep and rest and good food, and I did, and I feel much better.  It's about 6 o'clock and I am heading out and getting dropped off where I got picked up yesterday.  I just wanted to thank everyone for the emails and phone calls and text messages.  It's so cool to hear from everybody um some of them are making me laugh and some are making me cry, it's just really cool to hear from home and friends and family and people that I miss and people that I have met along the way . new friends and people that have been interested in the race.  I also wanted to thank the shop here, the Outdoorsman in Butte.  They have been fantastic.  Rick and Rob took care of my bike and they have been taking care of me.  They have went above and beyond everything they should have done and they rock, so just remember that!  That's it for now.  I am going to try and get some mileage in, hopefully my legs are feeling good and um I got a little bit of sleep, yea, and hopefully no bears today!

Hey, one other thing. I'd just like to advise any bikers out there that if you could avoid getting your bike wrenched at Great Divide in Helena, if you can hold off till, uh, Butte, I'd do it at Outdoorsman Cycles. Do that because they don't charge you a bullshit twenty dollar fee, and my shifting sucked before I went in there, and it sucks now, so Outdoorsman Cycle in Butte is definately a much better bet so I thought I'd throw that out there.