Last Chance 2010 Registration is Open!

Colorado Last Chance 1200k registration is now open!

• You may apply either online or by mailing a paper form and check.
• Riders will be accepted in the order the application + payment was sent (postmark, or online transaction date).
• Please review the qualification and refund policies.

Interested? Happy qualifying!

-jle

Wendy Gardiner's photomontage!

Here are a couple of great slideshows from Wendy Gardiner (links also added to the left):

• Heading to the Event
• Riding the Last Chance

... including the required rando experience of sleeping in a post office. And inquiring minds want to know: who is that sunflower wearing those Foster Grants?

Thanks, Wendy!

-jle

Last Chance "Big Book" of Results Published!

Tim Feldman has compiled finisher results of all seven editions of the Last Chance 1200k, from 2001 through this year, into a single page: one table for 1200k and a second for 1000k finishers. This evokes the figurative "Grand Livre" (Big Book) into which Paris-Brest-Paris finishers are inscribed. Thanks, Tim!

Bill Olsen, Alain Abbate, and Viktoriya Shundrovskaya finish Last Chance 2009:

The next edition of the Last Chance is slated for 9/15/2010.

-jle

Stories from Ron Himschoot and John Jost

Ron Himschoot, one of the three riders to finish the inaugural Last Chance (2001), and an Ultra-Randonneur laureate, portrays the Lanterne Rouge in "Alone at Last".

John Jost, St. Louis RBA, has posted a five-part story on his blog.

-jle

Stories from John Flanigan, Brent Myers

John Flanigan has sent us a "Sleeping Rough" vignette.

Brent Myers reminds us of his and Beth's rookie Last Chance in 2008, a bit rougher than this year's - commendations to Brent and Beth on their return ride, which went more smoothly (more or less)!

-jle

New Story - Stephen Whiteman

Stephen Whiteman has published the first part of a projected five-part saga. He's off to a good start.

-jle

New Photos - Guy Oldfield (Kensington)

Guy Oldfield, who staffed the Kensington turnaround, got pix of most of the riders, most of them looking cheerful. Thanks, Guy!

-jle