With just over 32 hours on the clock in the 2013 Tour Divide, both race leaders and the hundred-plus-strong “peloton” are setting a blistering pace, thanks to ideal weather and trail conditions. Dry road surfaces…
In Thru-Hiker Lingo she’d be called a “Trail Angel,” but for riders in the Tour Divide, Kirsten Henricksen is so much more — superfan, confidant, helper, healer. Kirsten runs a remote hunting lodge in the mountains…
It’s the second week in June, which can only mean that it’s finally time for one of my favorite events of the year — the Tour Divide. Now in its sixth year, the low-key, all-amateur, self-supported…
This past weekend was a busy one for endurance mountain biking, with fierce racing in the Stagecoach 400, Trans Iowa, and Arizona Trail Race 750. The Stagecoach 400 started Friday morning under clear skies and…
Aaron Gulley, a writer and journalist from Santa Fe, New Mexico, won this year’s Arizona Trail Race in 2 days, 3 hours, and 59 minutes. After several unsuccessful tries on the Arizona Trail, Gulley returned…
The stories that have emerged from this year’s Arizona Trail Race are gruesome and beautiful, often at the same time — a man using pliers to pry cholla balls out of his wife’s thighs; doctors surgically…
Aaron Gulley, a journalist from Santa Fe, New Mexico, appears to have finished the 300-mile Arizona Trail mountain bike race under the current record of 2 days, 5 hours, and 10 minutes. According to the…
The Arizona Trail is an elaborate setting for a mountain bike adventure. The often narrow, usually rocky path traverses an entire state the hard way — across lonely deserts occupied by amusingly anthropomorphic saguaro cacti, through…
With multi-day events spread out from February (Iditarod Trail Invitational) to July (Colorado Trail Race), the North American bikepacking season now has another extension in a Labor Day challenge that’s sure to be laborious —…
Dave Johnston doesn’t quite have the appearance of a long-distance runner. A three-foot blond ponytail wrapped in rubber bands hangs down to his legs. He’d just as soon wear fifteen-year-old race T-shirts and board shorts…