{"id":797469,"date":"2019-07-09T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/eaglevails-cristhian-ravelo-wins-50-mile-leadville-silver-rush-mountain-bike-race\/"},"modified":"2019-07-09T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T22:08:00","slug":"eaglevails-cristhian-ravelo-wins-50-mile-leadville-silver-rush-mountain-bike-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/eaglevails-cristhian-ravelo-wins-50-mile-leadville-silver-rush-mountain-bike-race\/","title":{"rendered":"EagleVail\u2019s Cristhian Ravelo wins 50-mile Leadville Silver Rush mountain-bike race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.5571776155718\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-368582-568\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/RaveloSilverRush-VDN-070919-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/RaveloSilverRush-VDN-070919-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Glen Delman \/ Special to The Daily | The start of the Leadville Silver Rush mountain biking race on Sunday.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>The start of the Leadville Silver Rush mountain biking race on Sunday.<\/strong><br \/>Glen Delman \/ Special to The Daily<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/RaveloSilverRush-VDN-070919-1.jpg\" alt=\"The start of the Leadville Silver Rush mountain biking race on Sunday.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/RaveloSilverRush-VDN-070919-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/RaveloSilverRush-VDN-070919-1-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Glen Delman \/ Special to The Daily | EagleVail cyclist Cristhian Ravelo crosses the finish line at the Leadville Silver Rush mountain biking race on Sunday. Ravelo completed the 50-mile course one minute and six seconds ahead of second-place finisher Jules Goguely of Ogden, Utah.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>EagleVail cyclist Cristhian Ravelo crosses the finish line at the Leadville Silver Rush mountain biking race on Sunday. Ravelo completed the 50-mile course one minute and six seconds ahead of second-place finisher Jules Goguely of Ogden, Utah.<\/strong><br \/>Glen Delman \/ Special to The Daily<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/RaveloSilverRush-VDN-070919-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"EagleVail cyclist Cristhian Ravelo crosses the finish line at the Leadville Silver Rush mountain biking race on Sunday. Ravelo completed the 50-mile course one minute and six seconds ahead of second-place finisher Jules Goguely of Ogden, Utah.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports-news\/eaglevails-cristhian-ravelo-wins-50-mile-leadville-silver-rush-mountain-bike-race\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports-news\/eaglevails-cristhian-ravelo-wins-50-mile-leadville-silver-rush-mountain-bike-race\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">LEADVILLE \u2014 Cristhian Ravelo is taking the summer off from the road racing circuit to come back to Colorado and enjoy some mountain-bike racing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">And so far, the EagleVail resident is off to quite a start, winning the 50-mile Leadville Silver Rush on Sunday in preparation for the 100-mile version of that competition, where Ravelo will once again race for the Tokyo Joe\u2019s MTB Team in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On the road, Ravelo races for CS Velo Racing out of Philadelphia; this season he has traveled the country on the UCI America Tour, but an injury at the Joe Martin Stage Race in Arkansas in April set him back a bit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI touched wheels with somebody and flipped over my bike going like 30 miles an hour, landed pretty hard, probably one of the hardest crashes I\u2019ve taken,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With an injured back, Ravelo\u2019s training was sidelined for a few weeks, and his racing and training started faltering. He sought medical attention and is now finally starting to feel like he is back to full strength.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt did feel like a little bit of a comeback to win,\u201d he said of the Leadville race. \u201cIt was definitely the toughest of any time I\u2019ve done it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">Tune up for the 100<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Ravelo also won the Leadville Silver Rush in 2016. He said for most of the upper echelon racers like himself, the Silver Rush is a tune-up for the Leadville Trail 100, a doubly difficult version of the Silver Rush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Ravelo will do that race, along with the Breck Epic and a few of the Vail Recreation District races, before heading back to the East Coast for some more road racing to end the summer. He said being able to participate in stage races around the country and mountain bike races in Colorado is a best-of-both-worlds scenario.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cLast year and the year before, I was traveling so much in the summer, I didn\u2019t do many of these races,\u201d Ravelo said. \u201cIt\u2019s been great coming back to it and seeing the people that helped me get started in cycling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Before joining the CS Velo team, Ravelo raced for the 303 Project out of Colorado. That\u2019s where he met Andrew Clemence, who raced for the 303 Project in 2017 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">While Ravelo is just dabbling in mountain biking between road races, Clemence has switched over completely, joining the Construction Zone Racing team out of Phoenix. It\u2019s his first year going full-on in mountain biking, and Sunday was also his first Leadville Silver Rush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">Friendly competition<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Clemence said on Sunday that he was glad to have Ravelo as a source of comfort in the unfamiliar environment of the Leadville Silver Rush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI know Cristhian has been mountain biking longer and he\u2019s really good at altitude, but just knowing that he and I have similar skill sets was a nice feeling,\u201d Clemence said. \u201cI felt a lot better being with him; I knew he would be managing his pace in a way that he could sustain it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Ravelo and Clemence got off to a fast start in Leadville on Sunday, putting a gap on the rest of the field for the first half of the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThe race started out with a run up a hill, which was a bit odd,\u201d Clemence said. \u201cCristhian and I both went up it at about 50 percent. But within three or four turns of the actual bike race, we were at the front.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Once the course got to a double track road section, \u201che and I got a gap and we just worked that for the next 10 miles or so,\u201d Clemence said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Clemence, who would go on to finish fourth, hit a bit of a wall between miles 20 and 30, which is where Ravelo started to lose him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cOn any climb, I would try to drill it a little harder, and then be just a little conservative on the descents,\u201d Ravelo said. \u201cBecause if you get a flat or crash, your race is over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On the final descent, Ravelo tried to push away the bad memories of his recent fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cMy mentality was, I\u2019m either going to flat, crash or win,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I went as hard as I could.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\">This story is from VailDaily.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/sports-news\/eaglevails-cristhian-ravelo-wins-50-mile-leadville-silver-rush-mountain-bike-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the Leadville Silver Rush mountain biking race on Sunday.Glen Delman \/ Special to The Daily EagleVail cyclist Cristhian Ravelo crosses the finish line at the Leadville Silver Rush mountain biking race on Sunday. Ravelo completed the 50-mile course one minute and six seconds ahead of second-place finisher Jules Goguely of Ogden, Utah.Glen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 17:08:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}