TS 19- LA VETA, CO

TS 19 La Veta, CO. 1037.1 miles into the race with 2005.7 miles to the finish. 2,030 ft of climbing to this station with 45,100 ft total. Avg. speed this station: 18.88. And they're going strong- keep up the good climbing guys!

6/14/07 - TIME STATION 18

TS 18 Alamosa, CO. 977.0 miles into the race with 2065.8 miles to the finish. 110 ft of climbing to this station with 43,000 ft total. Avg. speed this station: 21.92. They are still battling it out for 3rd place with Teams 601 and 608 - they are currently in 5th but are just about 25 minutes behind the third place team. Way to go North Coast Cycling Team!

6/14/07 - PICTURES SENT IN BY RIDERS FROM JIM'S GROUP

Here are a few pictures from the ride today...to give you a tiny glimpse of what we do.

6/14/07 LINK TO NORTH COAST CHURCH eNEWS ABOUT RACE TEAM

Read the North Coast Church eNews article link below

http://www.northcoastchurch.com/newsletters/specialnews/special061407/ncc_special_061407.htm

6/14/07 - TIME STATION 17

TS 17 South Fork,CO. They are 931.7 miles into the race with 2,111.1 miles to finish. They climbed 4,100 ft this station with 42,900 ft total climbing. Avg. speed this station: 18.36 mph. They are in a duel for 3rd place with two other teams who are arriving at the time stations about 20 minutes ahead of them. It is definitely a race!!!

6/14/07 - COMMENT FROM RIDER - RON

Hi from Colorado. We handed off to Pete' group @ Pagosa Springs - now on way to Trinidad to rest after a stop at KFC for food!!! All's well with Team North Coast!"

6/14/07 - COMMENT FROM RIDER - JEFF P.

"This is much more difficult that I ever thought possible!"

6/14/07 - COMMENT FROM CREW MEMBER - SUZANNE

Suzanne (crew member Pete’s group) “Hey everyone out there in the Blogging world that’s reading up on us. We’re on the road. We are currently climbing up over Wolf Creek Pass the first of 3 big mountains we’re climbing today. We ended up taking over early from the other group. We have only about 1.5 miles left to go to the peak of this. We have about 60 miles until we get to the next big mountain to climb. Hang in there and we’ll call again when we get phone service again. We’ll keep you posted. God bless.”

6/14/07- TIME STATION 16

TS 16 - Pagosa Springs, CO 885.5 miles into the race with 2157.3 miles left to finish. They climbed 3,680 ft at this station with a total climb @ 38,800 ft. Avg speed for this station was: 19.68 mph. They are still sitting at 5th place in the Corporate Team division - however, the 2 teams ahead of them time wise are only 2 mph faster than they are so it is pretty close for 3rd place as of now.

6/14//07 - COMMENT FROM CREW MEMBER - KEN

Ken (Pete’s crew member) “Hello Blogisphere! We’re catching up with Jim’s group. Last night our team raced hard all night. We had some issues trying to pass other teams. We have fallen into 5th but I believe that we will make up ground and remain to be competitive with the 3 teams in front of us in the standings. Everyone is a little bit tired. Anybody who thought this was a vacation has now figured out that it is not. It’s a whole bunch of work and a whole bunch of character building going on here. Doing well – we’re plowing through. We hope you are all doing well back there.”

6/14/07 - TIME STATION 15

TS 15 - Durango, CO - 815.3 miles into the race with 2227.5 miles to finish. They climbed 3,030 ft. this section with total climb @ 32,100 ft. Avg. speed this section: 17.88 mph. They are holding 4th place in the Corporate Team division.

6/14/07 - COMMENT FROM RIDER - RON

"We are coming close to Durango, CO. Doing good – just climbing up to 8,000 ft. Not a lot of air up here – you have to breathe hard. Weather is beautiful, cool not cold and it’s sunny!! (8:00 am – CO time). We're doing good."

6/14/07 - COMMENT FROM CREW - DAVE

Dave - crew member Jim’s group “We just passed TS 14 today – I guess today is Thursday!? So we’re moving on – we’ll be in CO for a little bit having a nice steady climb through the mountains.

Had a little action this morning – we passed a racer (Team 208 - 2Man Team) this morning. Later we had a little mishap passing another racer. They failed to yield to us and cause some safety issues so we ended up pulling back and so now we are trailing them a little bit. We are doing well.

This morning was a little crazy because we didn’t have phone coverage for so long that we ended up never getting a call from the other group and we had to wake up and get ready and go back to meet them because they didn’t make it to where we were staying in Bluff, UT. They are hopefully sleeping well and we are moving on.”

6/14/07 - COMMENT FROM CREW - DAVE

Dave – crew member Jim’s group – "Good morning everybody! Hi Dad!

We are in CO now. We’ve been in CO for a while now, but we didn’t have phone service. We are all doing well. Things are going good, it’s fun and adventurous and we are having a good time. Have a good day – bye.”

6/14/07 - COMMENT FROM RIDER - RON

Ron “Good morning California! It’s now 4:47 am local time and we’ve just crossed into Colorado. Jeff H. is on the road and we’ve crossed into CO on a little unmarked road. We’re making progress and we’re heading into the hills of CO today.

Fun things: We almost hit a horse – it was standing smack in the middle of the road. We’ve seen snakes and coyotes. Last night we had an attack of about 337 flies that got into van. The most interesting thing is that Jeff has run over a tarantula and run over a snake.

Everybody is rolling fine in CO. I can see the sun starting to glow – it will be up soon.”

6/14/07 - TIME STATION 14

TS 14 - Cortez, CO - 771.2 miles into the race with 2271.6 miles to finish. They climbed 2,290 ft this section with total climb at 32,100 ft. Avg speed this section: 16.46 mph. Holding 4th place in Corporate Team division.

6/14/07 - TIME STATION 13

TS 13 - Montezuma Creek, UT. 721.0 miles into the race with 2321.8 miles to finish. They have climbed 2,260 ft this section with a total climb of 29,800 ft. Avg. speed this section: 20.21 mph. Still in 4th place in Corporate Team division.

6/14/07 - TIME STATION 12

TS 12 - Mexican Hat, UT. 681.6 miles into the race with 2361.2 miles to finish. 1,100 ft of climbing for this section with 27,600 ft total climbing. Avg speed this section: 22.87 mph.

6/14/07 - TIME STATION 11

TS 11 - Kayenta, AZ - 637.0 miles into the race with 2405.8 miles to finish. They climbed 2,400 ft this section with a total climb at 26,500 ft. Avg speed this section: 20.07 mph. 4th place in Corporate Division.