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<\/a>\u201cThis was an awesome race and competing here has been a goal of mine all season long,\u201d said the winded Lindine following the race. \u201cI wanted to go back to Leadville, so winning here was a sure way of doing that.\u201d<\/p>\nLast year\u2019s inaugural WW100 race measured 57 miles, but an additional 12 miles were added to this year\u2019s event, which featured a combination of single track, dirt and paved roads, jeeping trails and back country roads.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe race and the distance felt a lot like Leadville,\u201d remarked the women\u2019s first place finisher Rebecca Rusch (Ketchum, Idaho), who has won three times in Leadville. \u201cAll the way through it\u2019s a super tough course, especially when you get to the ski resort, all the ups and downs are challenging.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s really a good course, a great town and the people are so supportive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rusch completed here race in 5:02:28.29 and was 21st overall. The out and back course took the field of 358 cyclists through the northern New York towns of Wilmington, Jay, Keene, Lewis and Elizabethtown before returning to the Olympic mountain for a final climb of 2,500 feet. The cyclists also tackled two additional mountain climbs, Jay Mountain and Saddleback Mountain, not once, but twice and both of these climbs were more than 750 meters apiece.<\/p>\n
\u201cFortunately for me this is my type of course,\u201d added the men\u2019s second place finisher Dereck Treadwell (Laurens, N.Y.), who was clocked in 4:22:22.56. \u201cI do pretty well on the climbs and I seemed to handle the uphills here pretty well, I think it\u2019s because of my running and triathlon background.\u201d<\/p>\n
Philip Wong (Male Gloucester, N.J.) rounded out the men\u2019s top-three finishers when he crossed the finish line in 4:25:11.26. Crystal Anthony (Beverly, Mass.) was second in the women\u2019s event, while Carmen Sweet (Oshawa, Ontario) was third. Anthony crossed the finish line, at the base of Whiteface Mountain, in 5:21:59.64, while Sweet was clocked in 5:32:59.83.<\/p>\n
In only his third-ever mountain bike race, 2010 Olympic Nordic Combined champion Bill Demong (Vermontville, N.Y.) finished fifth overall. Demong, whose first career mountain bike race was the LT100 last year, where he was 34th, finished in 4:42:32.67.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was brutal,\u201d he said afterward. \u201cComing down Whiteface, I was saying I\u2019m going to be happy when this is over. I\u2019m super psyched that I finished fifth.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was under the impression that this was a 62-mile long race and I learned only this morning that the race was actually closer to 70-miles that was a little shocking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seventy of Sunday\u2019s athletes are now making plans to race in the Aug. 11 LT100. Thirty-five of the LT100 qualifying spots were awarded based on performance in each division for men and women, and the other 35 were distributed randomly from a pool of all racers, who finished under the maximum cutoff time, which was eight hours. Since the LT100 lottery had already taken place, this was one of only six nationwide Leadville Series Races in which cyclists could still qualify and compete in the LT100.<\/p>\n
For a complete list of results, log onto http:\/\/www.leadvilleraceseries.com\/page\/show\/341303-results. For more information about the Wilmington\/Whiteface 100K, visit, http:\/\/www.leadvilleraceseries.com\/page\/show\/431652-wilmington-whiteface-100.