Cooperstown: The One with Saints and Sinners

"Saints to Sinners" is a road bike race from Salt Lake to Las Vegas. I love the name, super funny! Justin was invited by Bonnie and her husband Kristian to join their team. He's not a roadie but he's in dang good biking shape so he accepted. The race has 30 legs and they had a 10 person team so Justin rode 3 legs. Their team started at 6am Friday morning (7/26) and finished about noon the next day. They came in 8th place out of 17 teams in their division. The sad thing is they were only 10 minutes behind the 6th place team but Justin got a flat on the road which took about 15 minutes to fix. So had that not happened they would have come in 6th!!

Here are Justin's legs :)

And here's what he biked during the race:
His first leg was from about 2:30-3:30pm. For easy comparison I'm using his Strava maps because they show distance, elevation gain and time at the top and have an elevation map at the bottom so you can see just how much he climbed.

His second ride was 1-1:45am!! I thought this leg would be his hardest. It was the shortest but had one of the biggest elevation gains for the entire race. Justin said it was really dark and actually started to rain on him. He said riding that late at night was a little scary. At one point he had just passed 2 other bikers and was all by himself when he came upon the Mountain Meadows Massacre memorial sign. Creepy!! He definitely picked up a little speed right then.

This leg shows how impressive a biker Justin is. The fastest time for that leg was 35 minutes (set by the 2nd fastest team overall who did the entire 800+ miles in just over 24 hours, only 5 minutes behind 1st place). In Justin's division the fastest rider took 38 minutes. Justin's time was under 46 minutes!! He came in 5th in division, 12th out of 52!! Not bad for a non-road biker!! That's my hubby :)

His third leg was the second to last of the race. Justin came in 4th in division and 11th overall on this leg.

I cannot imagine how crazy these people are who sign up for this every year. I mean, it would be fun but EXHAUSTING!!

A few pictures at the finish line:
(*I wasn't at the race (obviously) so I got all these pictures off the Facebook page. Thankfully there were some good ones of Justin.)

Here he comes!! (The guy in front, fist pumping, is Kristian's brother,

the last rider for the team. Justin just wanted to ride through the gate.)

A little closer.

Bam!! Hottie with a body. I mean, bike :)

I bought that Utah jersey Justin is wearing for Christmas at least 3 years ago. We may not have even been married quite yet, just engaged. Anyway, it hung in his closet for a few biking seasons before he decided his other jerseys could finally be retired and this one could be worn. Why buy new things if you're not going to wear it?! I'm the exact opposite. I buy a new shirt and wear it that night :)

Team photo: Bonnie and Kristian are on the left and hopefully you can pick out Justin :) The rest of the team was Kristian's dad (who sponsored the team), 2 of his brothers and friends they each recruited to fill out the roster. You may notice that there are only 9 in the picture. Our bishop is actually an avid roadie and participated but had to head back to SLC early for church the next day.