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The guys I’m racing the Hundo with in a couple of weeks wanted one last big training ride. We were looking for something with comparable elevation gain and enough miles to make it a true mountain bike sufferfest. We settled on a route starting in Virginia Canyon above Idaho Springs. This was my first visit to the new Argo Mine Mountain Bike Park, and I was impressed from the start. The climb winds up the mountainside alongside the new gondola, weaving beneath wooden platforms

Still trying to process finishing the Quad Rock 50. Fifty trail running miles. Over 11,000 feet of gain. Endless climbs, technical descents, heat, pain, and one of the toughest athletic experiences I’ve taken on in a long time. The timing of getting off the waitlist for Quad Rock honestly worked out perfectly. Just three weeks earlier, I had completed my first official ultra marathon at the Rattler Trail Race 50K. That 30-mile course ended up being exactly the kind of trainin