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Clif Bar Seasonal Flavors Available: Iced Gingerbread, Pecan Pie, and Spiced Pumpkin Pie
Clif Bar is making three seasonal varieties of their eponymous energy snacks and I recently got a chance to try all three. Since taste is a really subjective call, I decided to enlist mudhunny and our 4-year-old daughter in this shootout. May the best bar win! Iced Gingerbread Mudhunny ranked this #1 in the test …
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Ride Report: Dirty Century Redemption
As many of you know, my major goal for this spring was to ride 100 miles on my mountain bike. To that end, I decided signing up for a race would help ensure my success. I would have aid stations spread out all along the course, other people to ride with, a date to train …
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5 Reasons to Get a Professional Bike Fit
When I decided to train for a dirty century, I wanted to make sure my bike fit was completely dialed for long hours in the saddle. I’ve done live social media coverage of a few races for Eddie O’Dea, the most sought-after bike fitter in the state of Georgia, so I decided to give him …
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Review: SKINS RY400 Recovery Compression Tights
SKINS specializes in compression clothing for athletes of various sports. Some pieces of their clothing are designed for use during the activity while others are designed for afterward, to help with recovery. When SKINS contacted Singletracks about doing a review, I was mostly interested in trying the recovery tights, for use after big rides, so …
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Training for the Cohutta 100: Three Weeks To Go
There are less than three weeks to go until the Cohutta 100. What I am trying to do… the difficulty of what I am trying to accomplish… is finally setting in. Riding 100 miles on a mountain bike is no easy task. We’re talking about, realistically (for me), about 12 hours of pushing my body …
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