With excruciatingly soft trails slowing fat bikers at Saturday’s Susitna 100, Nicolas Baudin wasn’t sure he was ever going to catch and pass skier Chet Fehrmann as he floated atop the bounty of snow. “There is nothing more frustrating for a biker to be following a...
A 20-year-old from Fairbanks stole the show at the Frosty Bottom bike race on Sunday. Luke Buth, whose family owns and operates Goldstream Sports in Fairbanks, separated himself from a lead pack of four on the final hill up to the Kincaid Chalet to claim the 43-mile...
Alaska is the birthplace of fat tire bike racing, so it should come as no surprise that an Alaskan has again excelled at a major Lower 48 event. In his first try, Tyson Flaharty of Fairbanks claimed the 124-mile Fat Pursuit in Island Park, Idaho, winning by more than...
Two years ago, Kristen Faulkner raced in the virtual Tour de France from her parent’s garage in Homer, overlooking Cook Inlet. This week her view was the Eiffel Tower. The 29-year-old Alaskan is one of six Americans and 144 women from around the world competing in the...
This being her first Tour Divide, Anchorage endurance cyclist Ana Jager set a target finish of 20 days in the 2,700-mile mountain bike marathon. She finished a full day earlier than expected. Jager this morning crossed the finish line in 19 days and 54 minutes to...
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is now hogging the headlines — but a hardy band of bikers, skiers and runners have been traversing the trail for more than a week. Fairbanksan Tyson Flaharty and Canadian Ryan Atkins led the way in the 306-mile trek from Knik to...
Ellie Mitchell made history Sunday as the first Alaskan to compete at the UCI World Cyclocross Championships — and she’ll never forget the experience. “The crowds were insane,” Mitchell said from Grand Junction, Colo., where she attends Colorado Mesa University and...
Anchorage cyclist Sheryl Loan was named the Alaska Athlete of the Week after she placed third in the Bike for Women to continue her astonishing streak of never finishing outside the overall top three in the race. Loan, who now races in the 60-64 age-group, clocked a...
The pandemic didn’t stop the cyclocross season in Anchorage. A race at Kincaid park on October 17 wrapped up the six-race ArcticCross season, which saw 245 participants complete at least one event. Races were held at Kincaid (two), Mirror Lake, Russian Jack, Service...
Endurance cyclists Janice Tower, Tyson Flaharty and Lael Wilcox rode to the “Top of the World” over Memorial Day weekend and are the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame Athletes of the Week. Participating in the Giddy Up Challenge, also known as “Everesting”, each cyclist rode...
Undeterred by mud, five Anchorage cyclists held their own at the USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships in Lakewood, Wash. “It was muddier than I thought it was going to be,” said James Stull, adding that his family’s fleet of bikes had to be washed twice...