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Joyful racers near the finish.

Tri the Village – New Triathlon

I’d never been to Lake Balboa and only once before been in the land of Spanish explorers. Hot Springs Village (where everything is named for a Spanish explorer), northeast of Hot

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Northwoods Trails

What is Adventure Racing?

The video below does a great job of explaining Adventure Racing. It was made by a group promoting a series of adventure races in New England. Adventure racing has been

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Dirty Girls Revisited

After writing Dirty Girls, I had an opportunity to see my first Cyclocross race: the Turkey Burn at Allsop Park.  Along with a morning of witnessing awe inspiring feats of athleticism and competitive

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Firecracker 5K

If you can’t decide…

…do it all. I really enjoy cycling, but I also enjoy swimming (the “sport” of my youth) and hiking and orienteering and paddling and sometimes even running. I also enjoy

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Giving you more stuff…

We wanted to give outdoor participants a little something extra and came up with an idea. When we are covering a race or other outdoor event we sometimes go all

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Women doing hurdles in skirts.

Dirty Girls

According to the research at Outdoor Industry, the likely representative of one who describes themselves as an outdoor recreation enthusiast would be a caucasian male, with at least some college education, making more

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Where did they come from?

Last week I posted an article on the 2011 Raid the Rock Adventure Race. The race organizers were kind enough to share the zip codes of the participants with me

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Run through the rainbow.

Mud Slinging

By Lisa Mullis Arkansas in autumn is not only resplendent with color from the changing of the leaves but there is not a weekend that is lacking a long list

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