I think any women who can do a double century certainly deserves some positive praise and thumbs up, so when I get more of the double century women, I will post them. Out of 160 riders listed for the Sierra double century, only about 8 women were listed, and as far as I know, they all finished!

Note: The following year in 2007, the race course was changed, so I didn't know until the last second or perhaps I would of gone over to Bass Lake. The guys I worked with locally who offered a ton of free support for this race, didn't work the race as well last year because it was out of their area. I am not sure if the race will return in 2008, as also the course was so extremely hard, that a lot of riders did not return in 2007. However, I will never, ever, take down this page! This race speaks volumes about just how tough some of these women are. They have special genes, because all my life, in my best fitness as a man, I was never really able to go beyond 100 miles. My heart simply gets tired, my best range seems to be about 70 miles at the time, less now. However, so many women finished ahead of the men during this race, and that is why I was so impressed with such a demanding course as this. I will never take down this page, as it's a tribute to women everywhere who are doing doubles!

This is Margie I believe, as I can't confirm the name absolutely, but I think she came in first for the women, but not only far ahead of the other women, but she was ahead of most of the men. In fact I think there were only a handful of men ahead of her for the day at the 130 mile mark. She is from Santa Cruz and she seems to be very fit indeed!

All the rest of the girls passed the 130 mile mark in pretty good shape, not too tired, all smiles and they were not the back laggers either. Men made up all the back laggers, not the women!