Alpine 50 Race Biking Success
The Alpine 50 mountain bike race started with a field of 114 racers who were registered, 97 men and 17 women, 101 of whom actually began the race at 6:30 a.m. Saturday, August 22, with a total of 92 who completed the race by crossing the town park finish line. This year’s 114 registered racers compares to 127 who registered last year and 108 who finished the mountainous 50-mile course. Fastest times for the three top men’s finishers were Durango racers Ivan Sippy and Ian Brown, three hours 14.38 minutes and three hours, 25.57 minutes, in first and second place, and Glenwood Springs racer Eric Mahoney, in third place with three hours, 31.28 minutes. Among a bevy of speedy women mountain bicyclists, Durango racer Brittany Cowan was fastest, four hours, 33.59 minutes, followed by Annika Rips, from Bavaria, five hours, 3.4 minutes, and Heidi Lauterbach, Telluride, Colorado, in third position, five hours, 19.27 minutes. Added to Saturday’s winning roster were a record 11 Lake City mountain bicyclists who started the race, nine men and two women, nine of whom finished the race. First Lake Citian across the finish line was Lake City High School Sophomore Joseph Tubbs, four hours, 50.43
