{"id":2192,"date":"2010-07-13T06:56:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T12:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2010-07-13T06:56:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T12:56:56","slug":"days-19-5-arriving-at-leadville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=2192","title":{"rendered":"Days 19.5- Arriving at Leadville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drive to Leadville was great because I got to watch the elevation readout on my Garmin tick up the entire time. I also got to see droves of people on I-70 driving the other direction back to Denver in the &#8220;weekend rush hour&#8221; to get back home to work on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>When I arrived Sunday afternoon, I drove around for a few minutes before heading to the hostel. Leadville is a really unique little town. When I walked into the hostel, I was immediately intrigued- the walls were covered in posters from Mississippi and Memphis blues festivals. Then, I met Wild Bill- the owner&#8230; from Mississippi! He wanted to know why I didn&#8217;t bring any Corky&#8217;s with me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After getting the usual hostel tour, I met Art- a multiple-time age group winner of the Leadville 100. He comes up early every year to acclimate\/race, stays in the hostel, and meets up with people every morning at 9:00am to take them out to different parts of the course. He&#8217;s 68, and has lots and lots of advice.<\/p>\n<p>Once I was settled, we ordered some pizza, and he took me on a driving tour of the town. This place is beautiful&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0843.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2193\" title=\"IMG_0843\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0843-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0843\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0843-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0843.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drive to Leadville was great because I got to watch the elevation readout on my Garmin tick up the entire time. I also got to see droves of people on I-70 driving the other direction back to Denver in the &#8220;weekend rush hour&#8221; to get back home to work on Monday. When I arrived&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Uq-zm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2195,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}