The Scale Of It All
See the edited videos for each of the six days of RTR 2011 here
One thing that doesn't come through when you edit down a 50-mile ride into a three-minute video is the concept of scale. This is pretty ironic because when you're "out there" it continually smacks you between the eyes -- just how enormous it all is.
Whether it's a ten-mile climb that takes a solid hour of effort to overcome or a vista to the far horizon with your road running through it, Ride The Rockies is simply BIG.
Sometimes that scale is a joy, like when you've crested the top of Berthoud Pass and realize you're on a 20 minute fast descent. This unedited footage from the backside of Berthoud Pass isn't terribly exciting (I keep it at a reasonable speed), but I hope it gives you some sense of the scale of Ride The Rockies.
The snippet from the finish is just for fun -- and it WAS fun having each rider receive such a nice ovation.
I've also included some other raw, unedited descents from Ride The Rockies 2011. For those of you who were in Colorado, I hope they bring back memories from a wonderful ride.
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