The First-Timer's Guide to the Leadville 100: How two mountain bikers from Texas took on Colorado's legendary Race Across the Sky - Paperback

by Joel Hinkhouse (Foreword by), Joel Hinkhouse (Editor), Alexandra Hasert (Editor)

After 20 years of talking about it, life-long friends Bud Hasert and Joel Hinkhouse finally qualified for, trained for, raced in and completed the 2015 Leadville Trail 100 MTB, an epic 100-mile mountain bike race at 10,000 feet in Leadville, Colorado. But their path was not without their fair share of mistakes, setbacks, successes and failures. In this book, you will see how these two Texans aspired, planned, prepared, and finished the "Race Across The Sky." It is not a training plan. Instead, this book is meant to inspire you to prepare to climb YOUR OWN Leadville, whether it's actually Leadville or not. Much of what is shared will dissolve some of the unknowns about America's premier mountain bike race. Questions that they had in their preparation and on race day are answered here. These stories will encourage you to follow your passion toward its peak. And once you get to that peak, keep climbing

Author Biography

Bud Hasert was born in New Braunfels, Texas. And as soon as his feet hit the ground, he picked up a bicycle and never put it down. For more than 20 years now he has been racing in and writing about mountain biking, triathlons, adventure races, fun runs, zombie attacks, pub crawls and any other excuse to get outside and play. His full-time career as an advertising copywriter has helped shape a style of storytelling that is fun to read and easy to laugh with.