{"id":2445232,"date":"2019-06-12T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/snowmass-history-coors-classic-was-high-on-pain-level\/"},"modified":"2019-06-12T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T18:24:31","slug":"snowmass-history-coors-classic-was-high-on-pain-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/snowmass-history-coors-classic-was-high-on-pain-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowmass history: Coors Classic was high on pain level"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One 6.25″ x 4.25″ b\/w artistic photographic print of racing bicyclists, in the Aspen Times on July 31, 1980 pg. 17A. The caption states, “Not far off the pace, three riders chase Ignacio Masqueda down Brush Creek Road during Wednesday’s circuit race at Snowmass. Masqueda, a member of the Mexican team, finished third in the event behind winner Bob Cook and Jacques Boyer.”<\/strong>
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\u201cRacers feel agony of victory as Coors Classic zings along\u201d described the Aspen Times in 1980, then went on to explain \u201cthe sport is called bicycle racing, but the racers know better. For the race that passed through the Aspen area Tuesday and Wednesday might better be named the Coors International Pain Classic. It is the ability to endure mass quantities of pain that separate the International bicycle racers from the ordinary human being. Even the casual spectator, struggling to walk up the 12% of Suicide Hill as the racers roll by, must recognize that the pain of the sport has little to do with the strawberries and bruises covering the arms and legs of the competitors unfortunate enough to take a spill.\u201d Bob Cook winner of the 20-lap circuit was quote: \u201cIt hurt a lot. There wasn\u2019t a lot of teamwork, just a lot of grinding.\u201d And Beth Heiden, winner of two events, said: \u201cI\u2019m tired. I hardly made it up the last (Suicide) hill.\u201d<\/p>\n

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One 6.25″ x 4.25″ b\/w artistic photographic print of racing bicyclists, in the Aspen Times on July 31, 1980 pg. 17A. The caption states, “Not far off the pace, three riders chase Ignacio Masqueda down Brush Creek Road during Wednesday’s circuit race at Snowmass. Masqueda, a member of the Mexican team, finished third in the […]<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 15:13:23","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445243,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445232\/revisions\/2445243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}