OK, a lot to report today, after some good work by Jeff Potter trying to keep track of where everyone is and how they’re doing compared to where they were and who they were with earlier in the race. It’s not easy.
Jeff has done some sterling work comparing things now with about three days ago, and noticed how steady things had been. Indeed, most of the racers are in groups with pretty much a day or so riding in between. Nicolas Senie, Matthew Arnold, Cricket Butler, Stephen Huddle, Jon Billman and David Tremblay are all in Pinedale, about a day behind Tom Moriarty, Jacob Johnsrud, Derek Richert, Grant Crosby and Dave Preston who are camped within a few miles of each other in the Basin proper.
Another day or so ahead in Rawlins are Marshal Bird, Mike Prochasaka, David Goldberg and John Foster. Then Dave Blumenthal is near Forest Baker and Aidan Harding, who are few hours short of Eric Nelson in Steamboat. Eric seems to have stolen a bit of a march on the others in the past few days, but bike repairs and food consumption could see them all regroup in the morning. Then Blaine and Erik Lobeck are the best part of another day ahead, in turn a bit more than half a day behind Matthew Lee.
At the rear, Brad Perry is about a day out of Pinedale, with Kent Peterson only a few hours behind him and Patrick Tsai another half a day or so behind that. International man of mystery – aka Shawn Sheppard – called in from Pinedale yesterday morning so could be with the boys on the Basin, or maybe just behind them. Read more »
