Biking in Southcentral

Coastal Trail repairs require week's closure near Woronzof

The city will close one mile of the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail just south of Point Woronzof beginning Monday for a week, the Parks and Recreation Department announced this week.

CYCLING

Stull edges Ellis

James Stull beat Jeff Ellis by four-tenths of a second to win Wednesday's 10-mile Moose Run time trial, finishing in 22 minutes, 42.9 seconds. Tony Turini topped the master men's over-40 division in 23:00.3, a time that placed him third overall.

9 miles of singletrack bike trail going into Kincaid Park

Five years ago, options were few. But by the time leaves turn amber this autumn, Southcentral's singletrack mountain bikers may be soaking in nature's Technicolor beauty on miles of new trail that is beginning to turn Anchorage into a mecca for the off-road crowd.

Six-pack of singletrack

Six-pack of singletrack

Janice Tower’s six favorite mountain biking trails in Southcentral.

CYCLING

Stull wins cycling hill climb

James Stull was the top cyclist at the Arctic Bike Club's Potter Valley Hill Climb on Friday, the first of four races that make up the spring stage race.

Rules of the road for Bike to Work Day

Those taking part in Bike to Work Day in Anchorage on Friday should keep two things in mind: Be alert, and know the law as it pertains to bicycles. Take our short quiz before you set out in the morning.

Post a photo from Bike to Work day

PLAY BLOG

Bike to work this Friday

Many Anchorage motorists will travel on two wheels this Friday, as the League of American Bicyclists and the Municipality encourage commuters to leave their cars parked for the seventh annual Bike to Work Day.

Alaska cyclist pedals to beat breast cancer

Anchorage cyclist Dr. Susan Fenn is in the middle of a cross-country trip from San Diego to St. Augustine, Fla., to raise money for breast cancer research, pedaling side by side with 73-year-old Joe Harrison of Apple River, Ill.

Susan Fenn's journey blog

Winter takes a toll on 150-mile bicycle racers

Alaska’s first and only extreme fat-tire winter bike-only race was so extreme that one-third of the field didn’t finish and about half of those who did made a mid-race switch from the 150-mile race to the 100-miler.

Video: Sheep Mountain 150 bicycle race

Oatley wins Sheep Mountain bicycle race

Winter cyclists need to gear up and down for this race

This weekend, for the first time, Southcentral bike racers won't need to share the trail with other winter warriors. They'll own the picturesque trails of the Sheep Mountain 150 when racers roll out of the Glenn Highway lodge at 9 a.m. Saturday.

Hill on wheels; testing Alyeska's Silvertip Traverse

Karl Nittelstad is only 41 years old, but he's lived long enough to witness two revolutions on Mount Alyeska. The second arrived on Sunday when Nittelstad watched packs of downhill mountain bikers wend their way down Silvertip Traverse.

MOUNTAIN BIKING

Mountain bikers can take tram at Alyeska

For the first time since its tram opened in 1994, Alyeska Ski Resort will let mountain bikers take their bikes uphill in the tram for a rousing ride down later this month.

CYCLING

Folmar blazes uphill

Daniel Folmar set a blistering pace Wednesday to capture victory in the 12-mile Stewart Road hill climb. Folmar won the race in 35 minutes, 36 seconds to beat his winning time from last year by two minutes.

CYCLING

Loan wins Posies

Sheryl Loan won the expert division of the Arctic Bike Club's three-stage Pocket Full of Posies event that concluded Tuesday with the Kincaid road race.

BICYCLING

Folmar wins sprint

Daniel Folmar outsprinted Jason Lamoreaux after 56 miles Sunday to win the men's expert division in the Arctic Bicycle Club's Kincaid Road Race.

CYCLING

Grumelot, Latosuo win first X-C race of season

Carey Grumelot designed the course, then he won the race. Grumelot finished the season's first cross-country race of the Arctic Bike Club's mountain racing division in 1 hour, 11 minutes, 4 seconds, taking first in the expert men's division on Tuesday.

BIKE RACING

Tower takes criterium

Jonathan Tower and Amber Stull won the expert divisions in the Arctic Bike Club's Goldenview criterium on Wednesday.

CYCLING

Stull, Loan win Clarks

James Stull won the men's expert division and Sheryl Loan won the women's expert division at the Arctic Bike Club's Clarks Road hill climb Wednesday.

MOUNTAIN BIKING

Folmar wins Arctic Valley

Daniel Folmar won the men's expert division at the Arctic Bicycle Club's first mountain bike race of the season at the Arctic Valley hill climb Tuesday. Folmar finished the 7-mile, uphill ride in 35 minutes, 20 seconds.

CYCLING

Stull wins climb

James Stull won the expert division of the Arctic Bike Club Hiland Road hill climb in 32 minutes, 24.7 seconds Friday.