{"id":45151,"date":"2021-08-18T01:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/grotts-places-third-in-leadville-100\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:23:44","slug":"grotts-places-third-in-leadville-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/grotts-places-third-in-leadville-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Grotts places third in Leadville 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=16ea079e-bc84-4194-8300-35f1d483175d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Durango\u2019s Howard Grotts finished third Saturday in the Leadville 100. (Photo by Etienne Van Rensburg\/Specialized)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Durango\u2019s Howard Grotts finished third Saturday in the Leadville 100. (Photo by Etienne Van Rensburg\/Specialized)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Etienne Van Rensburg\/Specialized<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Howard Grotts was unable to win the Leadville 100 mountain bike race for a fourth consecutive time on Saturday. The Durango cyclist rode the 100-mile course in 6 hours, 21 minutes and 47 seconds, finishing 10 minutes behind the winner and placing third out of race\u2019s the 1,418 entries.<\/p>\n<p>Keegan Swenson, of Heber City, Utah, usurped Grotts this year, winning the race in 6:11:26. Boulder\u2019s Lachlan Morton finished second in 6:19:22.<\/p>\n<p>Durangoan Payson McElveen, meanwhile, grabbed the fourth spot in the race with a time of 6:24:08, one second ahead of the fifth-place finisher from California.<\/p>\n<p>Rose Grant, of Columbia Falls, Montana, won the women\u2019s division in 7:23:57. Sarah Sturm of Durango was the third woman to finish in 7:30:56. Sturm placed 39th overall out of the 1,086 competitors who completed the race.<\/p>\n<p>Other cyclists from Durango and the surrounding area who competed the 100-mile race  included Andre Breton (69th, 8:01:10), Craig Konz (241st, 9:07:13), Michael Martin (519th, 10:25:17), Kristin Carpenter (575th, 10:35:27), Bayfield\u2019s Matthew Garrison (626th, 10:44:46), Steve Colford (800th, 11:21:42), Ingrid Alt (1,017th, 12:04:15) and Bayfield\u2019s Mike Garrison (1,070th, 12:33:58).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McElveen comes in fourth; Sturm is third woman to finish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[950,977],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-45151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-durango","tag-mountain-biking"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86373,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45151\/revisions\/86373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45151"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=45151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}