La Ruta de Los Conquistadores, 2007
Posted on December 21, 2007
By: Andrew
OK, so there really are some races you should only do once. This is one of them. My second time around just confirmed that for me. Clearly my memory is shot. This is not so much a mountain bike race as a death march, and this year they made it even harder by adding an extra stage, making it a four-day race. Bastards. Even excluding all the stuff that can go wrong - getting lost (see 2002 post), mechanicals, bad race organisation, getting sick, crashing and going to hospital etc - the physical challenge of this race is daunting. And let me add that this was the concensus hardest MTB race in the world according to everybody there who had done the (longer) Trans Alp, Trans Rockies and Cape Epic races. Read more
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