Well, Drew's done it! After 10+ hours of pedaling through 100 miles and over 14,000 vertical feet of climbing, Drew earned his silver and gold belt buckle. He finished the Race Across the Sky 100-mile mountain bike race in Leadville, Colorado.

As stated on the Race Across the Sky Web site: "At 10,000+ feet, against the misty backdrop of a former mining town, Leadville, Colorado, 1228 cyclists line the starting line. For many, it will be the most difficult race of their lives. For some, a bragging right to say they raced alongside the best in the world. Some imagine victory. Most hope only to finish. But everyone will count.

The race that started 25 years ago as a running race to drive tourism in Leadville has now grown to a lottery cap of 1000+ competitors, many of them the world's most elite cyclists. But the Leadville Trail 100 "Race Across the Sky" Mountain Bike Race is not just a race of man against man: it's man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. elements, man vs. time. A clock set for 12 grueling hour's slugs through 100 miles, over 14,000 vertical feet of climbing, some two miles above sea level, through extreme climate changes ranging from heat to hail, from rain to snow. To the racers, the risks of injury, fatigue and mechanical failure pale next to the chance that they will fall behind the 12 hour cut off mark and be eliminated.

Rivalries include six-time defending champion Dave Wiens vs. international star / seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. Inspirational stories of human triumph include a Leadville woman rider who was critically injured by a car while training for last year's race, another who suffers from multiple sclerosis, and 45+ rider who has raced all 15 years.

Whether they're international stars of the sport or everyday folks with the will to finish a race whose difficulty is on par with the Ironman, the grit to push to their own physical and emotional limits strikes an elegant symmetry between racer and environment and a struggling former mining town whose very existence now relies on the tourism generated by this race."

Office Prank: Drew's "Office above the clouds"

(EPIC FAIL)

We thought it would be funny to fill Drew's office with a cloud of dry ice when he returned from his Leadville 100-mile mountain bike "Race Across the Sky".... thinking it would make him feel at home above the clouds. So we bought some dry ice (8 lbs.) and set up some bowls of water around his office just before he came in. It started to work, but unfortunately we didn't have enough dry ice/water to really get the cloud formed. We are posting this anyway so you can get an idea of what happened. FYI - shot on the new iPhone 4 - hence the odd video screen size!