Tour de Park City Utah 173 Miles Gran Fondo August 2011
Tour de Park City Utah 173 mile Gran Fondo August 2011 A few months back Jesse mentioned that he was thinking about doing an event in Park City. I think he told me it was a 70 mile or so ride at higher altitude and it sounded like a fun place to get away from the Arizona heat. I didn't think about it much after that and went about business. A few weeks ago in an email, there was a description of the event and I thought about it more seriously. There were three distances, 50 miles, 100 and 170 as they advertised them. For some reason, the 170 seemed to appeal to me and within a day or two I was seriously considering it and a week later registered for it. I had not been training for anything like that distance but since I had done the 70.3 Ironman in Boise in June and was riding hard for short distances the previous 3 weeks or so I would go for it. I talked Betty and the kids into going as well with a trip through Vegas and a day at Lagoon. We had a two-day complimentary stay a...