There is a mountain bike movie coming to Edmonton called Race Across the Sky. The movie centers on the Leadville 100 mountain bike race and it’s about the race and not just Lance propaganda . Tickets go on sale January 8 and in most place in the States the viewings have been sold-out. It’s not often that Edmonton gets to have a mountain bike movie showing in a large theater, so invite everyone!

Below is all the information for the movie with times and locations.

Cineplex Info: http://twurl.nl/gtq6c0

See you there!!

Date and Time:

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:00pm and Sunday, February 07, 2010 1:00pm

Locations:
Edmonton
– Cineplex Odeon North Edmonton Cinemas, 14231 137th Avenue NW
– Cineplex Odeon South Edmonton Cinemas, 1525-99th Street NW
Sherwood Park
– Galaxy Cinemas Sherwood Park, 2020 Sherwood Drive

Ticket Prices:
Admission:
Adult: $12.50
Child: $8.00
Senior: $10.50
Group (20+): $9.75

Movie Synopsis:

At 10,000+ feet, against the misty backdrop of a former mining town, Leadville, Colorado, 1228 cyclists line the starting line. For many, it will be the most difficult race of their lives. For some, a bragging right to say they raced alongside the best in the world. Some imagine victory. Most hope only to finish. But everyone will count. The race that started 25 years ago as a running race to drive tourism in Leadville has now grown to a lottery cap of 1000+ competitors, many of them the world’s most elite cyclists. But the Leadville Trail 100 “Race Across the Sky” Mountain Bike Race is not just a race of man against man: it’s man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. elements, man vs. time. A clock set for 12 grueling hour’s slugs through 100 miles, over 14,000 vertical feet of climbing, some two miles above sea level, through extreme climate changes ranging from heat to hail, from rain to snow. To the racers, the risks of injury, fatigue and mechanical failure pale next to the chance that they will fall behind the 12 hour cut off mark and be eliminated. Rivalries include six-time defending champion Dave Wiens vs. international star / seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. Inspirational stories of human triumph include a Leadville woman rider who was critically injured by a car while training for last year’s race, another who suffers from multiple sclerosis, and 45+ rider who has raced all 15 years. Whether they’re international stars of the sport or everyday folks with the will to finish a race whose difficulty is on par with the Ironman, the grit to push to their own physical and emotional limits strikes an elegant symmetry between racer and environment and a struggling former mining town whose very existence now relies on the tourism generated by this race.