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Encore screening of Ride The Divide coming to Springs

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Created on Monday, 31 January 2011 17:23

Written by Nathan

Ride The Divide, the award-winning feature-length documentary about the world’s toughest mountain bike race, will return to Colorado Springs for an encore screening on Thursday, Feb. 10, at the Stargazers Theatre. The film, which chronicles the story of several mountain bikers who attempt the 2,711-mile race named the Tour Divide along the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains, first appeared at Stargazers last September to a large and appreciative crowd.

Ride The Divide embraces the inspiring stories of three of the racers who experience the immense mountain beauty and small-town culture as they attempt to pedal from Banff, Canada, to a small, dusty crossing on the Mexican border. There’s Mike, a 40-year-old family man who uses this challenge to chart a new course in life; Matthew, a leader in extreme endurance racing who’s competing for his fifth time; and Mary, the first female rider to race this route. As they set out, they will attempt to accomplish what very few have been able to. Over the course of a few weeks, they’ll attempt to climb over 200,000 vertical feet along the backbone of the Rocky Mountains. 

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They’ll experience mental breakdowns, treacherous snow, hellacious blisters, and total fatigue. Above all, they’ll race with no support – at times in total isolation. The tests of endurance and the accomplished moments throughout Ride the Divide prompt us to reflect on our inner desires to live life to the fullest. 

Outside magazine proclaimed that “(t)he toughest bike race in the world is not in France,” after publishing a story on the Tour Divide race, which is the subject of the film. Ride The Divide will be shown at 7 p.m. at the Stargazers Theatre located off Pikes Peak Avenue. Advance tickets are $10 and available by calling Stargazers at 476-2200, at the box office most evenings and also online. Tickets are also available Mountain Chalet, the presenting sponsor of the event, located on North Tejon. You can order tickets online as well. Tickets will be available at the door the night of the show for $15.

This showing will benefit the Medicine Wheel Trail Advocates, a local group constructing the new “Missing Link Trail,” which would connect Barr Trail with Jones Park and Cheyenne Canon as part of a larger plan by Colorado Springs Utilities and the city parks department to open the South Slope property.