Monday, March 28, 2011

Fastest Man in the White Mountains

Greg in Hope after
the 2011 Soggy Bottom

Bicycles & Icicles would like to offer a big congratulations to Greg Matyas, owner of Speedway Cycles, who proved—again—that even an old guy with an achy back can be a big-time ass kicker.

Greg won this year's White Mountains 100 with an elapsed time of 10.2 hours. And this came only a few weeks after his third-place finish in the 350-mile Iditarod Trail Invitational.

Congratulations to everyone who finished, including my friends Janice Tower, who took second on the women's bike division; Rachel Steer, who took second in the women's ski division; as well as Brian Garcia and Julie Malingowski for solid finishes. And condolences to Julie, who was derailed by mechanical problems and forced to scratch after a winter of training hard and looking strong.

I guess this means she has to start training for next year.

3 comments:

lemmiwinks said...

Holy crap. I thought I was muddy, but I got nothin'! Nothin' I tells ya.

Julie said...

YES! A SHOUT OUT! Thanks, Woody. We need to drag your old guy butt out to battle for the front of the pack next year!

Julie said...

Julie's catching on quickly!

The only thing I plan on training in the next few months is my beer drinking arm.