{"id":73490,"date":"2016-08-03T17:39:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T23:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/shawn-gregory-wins-at-telluride-100\/"},"modified":"2016-08-03T23:39:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T23:39:01","slug":"shawn-gregory-wins-at-telluride-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/shawn-gregory-wins-at-telluride-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Gregory wins at Telluride 100"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=809efecd-db66-4981-9e93-1fd983fd8d3f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1561\" alt=\"Shawn Gregory stands atop the podium after winning the 40-and-over division of the Telluride 100. He completed the 100-mile race in nine hours, five minutes and thirty-five seconds.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Shawn Gregory stands atop the podium after winning the 40-and-over division of the Telluride 100. He completed the 100-mile race in nine hours, five minutes and thirty-five seconds.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Shawn Gregory brought home a first-place finish at the third annual Telluride 100 Mountain Bike Race.<\/p>\n<p>Riding in the 40-and-over men\u2019s division on Saturday, July 23, the Dolores resident finished the 100-mile race \u2013 that included nearly 14,000 feet of elevation gain \u2013 in 9:05:35, and nine minutes ahead of the second-place finisher.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory has competed in the race in each year of its existence. In 2014, the first running of the event, he rode a geared bike and finished in sixth place (9:16:40) in the men\u2019s open division. And then last year, he rode a single speed bike in the open division and finished in 11th place (9:51:54).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gear thing was kind of unusual for me,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt\u2019s typical for me to ride the single speed, so that was my norm last year. This year riding gears was a little different, and the year before last was the first time I\u2019d even raced a geared bike in nine years or something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gregory said that he doesn\u2019t necessarily do anything special to prepare for the treacherous 100-mile race. He just rides a lot of miles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been doing long races for a long time now,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd 100 miles is actually shorter than what I normally would do. So even though it\u2019s tough, it seemed a little easier than some of things I\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Gregory rode in the 300-mile Arizona Trail Race, finishing the event in just over two-and-half days as the fastest single-speed finisher and fourth overall.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2011, he rode in what he described as the toughest race he has ever competed: The Colorado Trail Race.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory finished the over-500-mile race in five days, 15 hours and 44 minutes, calling it an \u201cepic, humbling, painful, tiring, beat-down, exciting, tough, wet, cold, long, adventurous, difficult, mentally-draining, fun, beautiful, monumental experience,\u201d on his blog.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory plans to remain active in area mountain bike races, starting with the 50-mile course at the 18th annual Escalante Days Mountain Bike Race next weekend in Dolores.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeyond that,\u201d he added, \u201cThere are a couple hundred mile races that I\u2019ve got my eye on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolores biker wins the 40-and-over division of third annual race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73490","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=73490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73490"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}