Riders survive the heat at the Boneyard Brawl

By Chris Freud

EAGLE — So how hot was it at Wednesday’s Boneyard Brawl?“It was hot,” men’s expert rider Dan Findley said. “Everyone was struggling today.”The riders of the VRD Westin Athletic Club Mountain Bike Race Series are a hearty lot. They take on Vail Mountain. The series ends in two weeks with the Beaver Creek Blast. In between there’s the Davos Dash, which is simply excruciating.But heat is something to which mountain-bikers are not accustomed, especially in this part of the world.“As hot as Africa,” joked Jenn Ventura of Team Vail Valley Medical Center. “Typically, I ride early in the morning. It’s …

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