new record at leadville

levi leipheimer did not get the chance to race against lance armstrong, the defending champion, in the life yime fitness leadville trail 100 mountain bike race in colorado. so he did the next best thing — he broke armstrong’s record.

with armstrong, his radioshack teammate, sitting this one out because of a sore hip from his crash-filled tour de france finale, leipheimer won the nation’s highest-altitude endurance test in a lung-searing 6 hours 16 minutes 37 seconds. armstrong’s record, 6:28:50, was also bested by the runner-up jeremy horgan-kobelski, a 2008 olympic mountain biker, who finished in 6:25:21.
nytimes.com