Thursday, August 11, 2011

Tour of Utah

They have a bike race out here called "Tour of Utah". It's billed as 'America's toughest stage race', I think that's mostly because they have it in the middle of August, and we have lots of mountains...

Anyway, this one of the stages ended up going up the road half a block from our house. We took the kids down to see it. Here's the extent of our excitement for the week:




Clearly we are excitement deprived here. They had the road blocked off for almost an hour, for the 30 seconds of bike riding. I guess we should have watched from a few miles further up the road. The road goes on a pretty good incline from our house for another 2 miles or so, then drops fairly fast. It sounds like 10-15 riders wiped out in the transition from the incline to the decline. (They also said the riders were going 38 MPH at the bottom of the hill...)

In about a half hour, if we are still bored, we can go out back to the same street and watch the gridlock as everyone comes in for the BYU graduation...

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