Friday, April 11, 2008

Hell of the North

There are two big races this weekend: Paris-Roubaix and the H8TR100. The first one, whatever, it's not that hard. I've done it. Twice. But the second one, the H8TR100? Now that sounds rough! 100km across some rugged, inhospitable and frankly uninhabitable Wisconsin terrain, through barren forests and under frozen waterfalls (literally, there's a big curtain of ice half blocking the entrance to a tunnel they have to go through.) I'm not sure who's going to win either race, all I know is they better look like this when they cross the line:

3 comments:

Chris said...

here's the odds from unibet.com. (remember when they had a cycling team...?) my outside pick is backstedt with money going on hincapie, despite my boonen fanboy status.

Cancellara 3.25
Boonen 4.00
Hoste 10.00
Flecha 10.00
Hincapie 11.00
Ballan 13.00
Devolder 16.00
Pozzato 18.00
O'Grady 20.00
Hushovd 22.00
Nuyens 25.00
Gusev 25.00
Backstedt 30.00
Steegmans 35.00
Klier 35.00
Hammond 35.00
Langeveld 35.00
Zabel 40.00
Vaitkus 40.00
Eisel 50.00
Guesdon 60.00
Van Avermaet 60.00

Simon said...

Hmm... Interesting odds, Chris. I was going to pick Cancellara, but I can't now, I'll seem too obvious.

Ah, feck it. Cancellara for the win. O'Grady as my outside pick.

Does Unibet have a line on the H8TR100? My money's on Lyle.

M said...

Is there anywhere online where you can watch for free? Or do you have to pay?