Riding with Lance & Floyd at the Tour De Gila
I just got this email update about our ex - Fitzy Team riders Ian Tuttle and Chris Lunning:
Day 1 goes North from Silver City (we didn’t ride that but you may have driven it) through Cliff/Gila (which is where I took the pics) & then Glenwood & then up to the Mogollon ghost town. Brutal climb.
Today they do the inner loop which includes a section of rode from town to near our house which you rode. Early in today’s race there are extremely nasty downhill hairpin turns, offcamber decreasing radius and steep! Lots of crashes every year. They then come through San Lorenzo about 6 miles from our house. Sunday they reverse this course and include a Cat 1 climb to the Gila cliff dwellings.
I got a picture of Chris riding in the group. He’s riding for Above Category along with Ian Tuttle (also used to work at Fitzgerald’s). They both finished just ahead of Floyd Landis in the top 50 so they are riding extremely well
I attached picture of him with Lance to his right. He’s in a black/white kit at the middle right of picture. Lance is in yellow helmet to his right.
Unbelieveable! Give ‘em hell boys!
We also have a new comer to the Fitzy Team - Matt Andersen - racing in the Men’s Cat 2. Look for a report soo from Matt. Good Luck!
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Stage 2 Update - http://www.tourofthegila.com/2009race/day2srmen2.html - Lunner hung in there with to finish in the main pack! Ian was right behind in a chase group! Unreal! Hometown heros doesn’t even begin to sum it up!
thanks for the hometown hero props…..I consider it more of an act of survival…… I guess I saved myself from the wrath of Lance so maybe that makes me my own hero, any rate heroism sounds pretty cool…..Thanks for all the support….glad you all are watching…….If you want you can add my blog to your friends list……its lunner.blogspot.com