Mountain Town News

Leadville, Colo.: Lance Armstrong takes to knobby tires Lance Armstrong made his name on skinny tires, not fat ones. Still, there is only one Lance Armstrong, and so the atmosphere this year at the Leadville 100 — a fat tire race — was electrified with Armstrong competing. The course demands Herculean efforts. As the name suggests, it covers 100 miles, with 14,000 feet of climbing, topping out at 12,600 feet. As... [read full story]