Carey's Cycling and Adventuring Chronicles

 I had been hem-hawing the past two weeks over whether to race or not. Two weeks out, the weather forecast was horrible (cold and wet), so I...

  📷: Eric Henderson Every year my mind is put through a gauntlet the day before the first race of The Snake.  Mainly because of the weather...

 I did the first edition of this race in 2017, back when mass starts were the norm.  It then went on a 2 year hiatus and ended up turning in...

I decided to finish out the year with a mountain bike race in Ackerman, Mississippi. I didn't even know Mississippi had single track....

Climbs are getting steeper and longer the further North I go There is always a point in the race where the focus becomes more on just turnin...

  18,000 feet of climbing The MDH Buck Fifty is a self supported race in the North Dakota Badlands.  It begins south of Medora at Burning Co...

  The Beginning The last time I had raced this event was 2014.  Back then, it was only 54 miles and it didn't have the new "trail...