I will carry the C&V banner this weekend when I compete in the Furnace Creek 508 ultra endurance event. We ride 508 miles through the Southern California desert with Death Valley being the middle third of the journey. I am riding as half of a two-man team, Team Great Eagle, so we each ride approximately 250 miles, alternating segments like a relay race. We are riding in the over-60 (average age) catagory. Besides the miles we each have about 16,000 ft of climbing to tackle and whatever nature can throw at us.

I will be riding my 1975 Eisentraut in an official "classic bike" division. The rules of the division include: lugged-steel frame, no more that 6-speed cluster, toe clips and straps, friction shifting, no TT bar extensions on handlebars. The intent is to use pre-1983 technology.

There is an official webcast for the event here: http://www.the508.com/2012web/index.html

We also have facebook and twitter team pages http://www.facebook.com/FurnaceCreek508TeamGreatEagle and http://twitter.com/TeamGreatEagle

I will be riding approximately 150 miles on the Saturday portion of the event so I hope to count that for my Century a Month Challenge.

Jim