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Winter’s just around the corner, and after season upon season of hitting the slopes with your skis and/or snowboards, you might just be in the mood for a new winter sport. And so we bring you Reindeer Racing… a classic up in Lapland in northern Scandinavia.
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Congratulations to our friend Krissy Moehl for winning The North Face Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc over the weekend! Last week, I wrote about Krissy and her pack of American ultra-runners tackling the race, a 103-mile circumnavigation of Mont Blanc, which starts and finishes in Chamonix. The course, which dips into Italy… Read the rest

Although nobody actually died in Vermont’s annual “death race” this year, the event is every bit as grueling as the name implies. For a portion of the race competitors have to run through a knee-deep mud sink hole before crawling 200 yards under barbed wire and then chopping out a… Read the rest

What do you get when you combine one problem solving, one part teamwork, one part urban adventure and a dash of craziness? The GO Urban Adventure Race. Having kicked off in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, GO Urban will be bringing the race to thirteen different cities throughout the next year,… Read the rest

Biking 2,745 miles is no small feat. Now do those 2,745 miles solo — completely unsupported — and along the intense terrain of the Great Divide and you’ve got one crazy yet respectable journey. That’s why we’re giving some major props to Matthew Lee, winner of this year’s Tour Divide,… Read the rest

The famed cycling tour that takes some of cycling’s best across the varied terrain of France commences on July 4th, but another group is finishing up their own Tour this Friday: inmates. The “Penal Tour de France” kicked off on June 4th and has taken some 200 French prisoners and… Read the rest

We had an excellent few days down in Bend, OR and at Mt. Bachelor this past weekend. There to do a little Wend promotion and help out with the King and Queen of the Cone event, the Wend team kicked it into high fun gear, from Stiv’s excellent fajitas to… Read the rest