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Your Last Chance?

The Arkansas Mountain Bike Championship Series comes to a close this coming Sunday. This year I embedded myself in the series racing as a Cat 3 racer in all but

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Race the Base, The Director’s Cut

Preparing It took weeks of planning, endless phone calls to vendors and suppliers, enlisting friends to lend help and support, all for a couple of hours of chaotic activity and

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Need a Lift?

We don’t often report on things to do that involve just sitting there but sometimes you need to give the dogs a break, let someone else do the pedaling, be

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Halfway There, Livin’ on a Prayer

It’s hard to believe that we are already halfway through the Arkansas Super-Prestige Cyclocross Series. The first four races took place over just two weekends but the next four will

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Styx n’ Stones Trail Runs

The children’s rhyme that one thinks of when reading the name of this race is appropriate and a good indicator of things to come.  It’s not the words that one

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Silhouetted by the early morning light.

Smoke-N-Suds Weekend Part 2

After day one of the Smoke-N-Suds weekend, we spent the night in the campground at nearby Devil’s Den State Park waking up to temperatures in the mid-thirties. Yes, it was

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The pleasure and pain of cyclocross.

Smoke-N-Suds Weekend Part 1

I caught myself saying to someone this weekend that cyclocross it the best spectator cycling sport. Is that really true? Could it be? Tight, short courses do lend themselves to

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TRI-THE-LAKE: Heber Springs, AR

The Tri-The-Lake Sprint Triathlon was a couple of weeks ago on 14th October, 2012. Setting up in darkness was a factor that I have not experienced in this, my first

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