Who is heading to Steamboat this weekend? What are you riding?
I’m riding Green, my better (at bikes) half is riding Blue. Will be in town starting Saturday morning for the festivities.
Best of all - after another week of garbage air, the smoke forecast looks promising for the weekend. So do your dances/prayers/sacrifices before you head out 
curios where to find a long term (or at least more than one day) of smoke forecast/air quality predictions. Will be up in Leadville this weekend and wanting to see what it will be like after how bad its been.
I use the app AirVisual. It has a 7-day outlook.
Local weather guy (FB page Denver and Front Range Weather) says high pressure should move in at the end of the week, pushing smoke to north and east of Colorado.
It has been a stretch of 100% trash air. This is going to be a welcome change!
Eta: Also, the National Weather Service Denver/Boulder has been dropping 2-3 day smoke forecast models on FB.
Smoke forecast is dropping, but ozone will still be high along the Front Range, which has been the biggest issue this summer.
Ozone won’t be a problem out in Steamboat though. A handful friends / people I race with are racing it, so best of luck to everyone and enjoy!
Will be doing Red for a nice medium intensity day in the saddle followed by tons of fun afterwards 
I did Ned Gravel’s 40mi version a week ago, and that was the same elevation with 33% less distance, so I’m expecting it to be fairly easy especially w/ aid stations.
Same - did the Ned 20 and looking forward to spreading about the same elevation over a lot more road!
I’m riding the black course. I won’t be fast, but barring an unforeseen event, I’ll be able to finish in time for a few late afternoon beers.
The forecast has the wind switching to be from the south later in the week. That should clear away the smoke, and hopefully we’ll have clear skies for the ride Sunday.
The views are a lot better when you can actually see more than a couple of miles!
This was probably the biggest bummer at the The Rift in Iceland a few weeks ago….the whole way back, it was raining and low clouds everywhere obscured what should have been magnificent views. Made a hard slog that much harder because you were just focusing on what was in front of you.
I saw Valtteri Bottas is racing Steamboat. That’s cool. I’m guessing Tiffany Cromwell is racing to win it or place well. Obviously, I didn’t really think about the Canyon connection and the possibility of them being there because of that.
Dude!!!
(For those who don’t know, he races with Lewis Hamilton in F1.)
His IG is of him and Tiffany doing recon. Super cool!
We just became F1 nerds this year so this is super cool! Wonder what distance he’s racing… probably not gonna be hanging out with me in Green 
Not sure!
Tiffany will be in the pro field, no doubt. I’m sure he is sick of talking about F1, but I bet he would get pretty chatty (for a Fin) if you ask him about his coffee roasting.
Yeah, I started getting into F1 last year after watching the first two seasons of “Drive to Survive” on Netflix…started watching the races in 2020 and continued this year. This year has been fantastic so far…
I was looking at the pro field and it looks at least as deep as unbound. It’s a big race. Can’t wait to see how long I will hold in.
It’s a big race in general. Lots of of people I know who are bad fast, and they’re just local men and women, are going.
Living in the Front Range, I’m getting serious FOMO as it feels like everyone who is quick and not quick will be there.
I’m riding the Blue. Trying to go sub 7 hours since 2019 I finished in 7 hours and 1 minute. Hung some new Renee Hurst tires today along with new brake pads. Smoked my brakes at Rooted VT.
Dhani Jones is also riding.
Smoke forecast for the weekend is looking excellent - in the green starting Friday!
Velonews and Outside TV will be broadcasting the end of the race…