With the recession, however, 35% of those surveyed believe they will have less time to be outside. Being too tired, having to take care of children, and watching TV were some other reasons for people not going outside. Aileen TorresA missed turn in the dark cost the record-setting husband-and-wife tandem team of Jay and Tracey replica IWC watch Petervary a penalty of 30 miles on day 3 of Tour Divide, a 2,700 mile self-supported mountain bike race down the Continental Divide from Banff, Alberta to Antelope Wells, New Mexico. The race has no entry fee and offers no prize money and relies on the honor system for the main rule, which is to accept no prearranged support.
There are few rules other than riders may not accept pre-arranged outside support and must resupply food and bike parts in the small towns along the route.Forty riders pushed off from Banff last Friday and most had crossed the border into Montana, including unofficial race director, CannondaleSobe rider Matthew Lee, who maintains a 25-mile lead over the field, and the Petervarys, who bivvied off route south of Eureka, replica iluxury watches Montana, and re-joined it Sunday morning before stoking back toward the front of the field. This is the first time a tandem team has attempted to ride the entire route of Adventure Cycling Associations Great Divide Route and the first time a tandem has attempted Divide Racing.
which has been recognized since John Stamsted time trialed the U.S.-to-Mexico border-to-border route in 1995. The bicycle-built-for-two is a custom Vicious painted blue in the front, pink in the back. Tracey Petervary, along with her husband a veteran of replica Audemars Piguet watch Alaskas Iditasport, has nicknamed the tandem rig the Love Shack and thusfar morale seems good. Race fans can track the field as well as individual racers via SPOT satellite maps at the Tour Divide website: tourdivide. Podcast summaries and individual racer call-ins can also be found at mtbcast. To read my account of surviving a previous Divide race, check Jon Billman
