Leapin' Levi! Leipheimer wins 'torturous' Leadville 100

Published Aug. 14, 2010 at 10:58 p.m.

Leave it to the guy who's never competed on a mountain bike before to win one of the premier off-road bike races in the U.S.

Levi Leipheimer won the Leadville 100 mountain bike race on Saturday, setting a new course record in the process. His RadioShack teammate and defending champion, Lance Armstrong, didn't race due to injuries sufferd in the Tour de France.

Listening to his comments after the race, it sounds like the 36-year-old left it all out on the 100-mile Rocky Mountain route that ranges between 9,000 and 13,000 feet.

"Twenty miles to go, I didn't care if I was an hour behind or a half an hour ahead, I just wanted to get it done...It was just torturous....

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