Travis Peruski doesn't dress for speed when he races. No sleek-looking synthetic gear for him, just blue jeans, sneakers and usually a T-shirt. Clothes don't make this man. What's underneath does.
Peruski continues to best field in handcycling challenge
Travis Peruski of Linden, Mich., is 4 for 4 in the Sadler's Alaska Challenge, a six-day stage race for handcyclists that covers 227 miles in stages between Fairbanks and Anchorage.
Brutal climb to victory in Sadler's Alaska Challenge
The world's longest wheelchair and handcycle race came to a grueling conclusion Sunday at the Hatcher Pass summit.
The Challenge? Climb to finish at 3,500 feet
With just one race remaining in the seven-day, eight-stage Sadler's Alaska Challenge, competition ends today with what promises to be the sternest test yet for a record field of handcycle and wheelchair racers.
Challenge racers face rain, wind and a bear
When a black bear popped out of the woods and onto the bike path in front of racer Sherry Schulz during Wednesday's time trial in the Sadler's Alaska Challenge, Schulz momentarily panicked.
Sadler's leaders shuffle spots
First-place finisher Ernst Van Dyk edged runner-up Chris Peterson by less than one minute Tuesday in the men's handcycle kneeseat division, winning Stage 3 of the weeklong Sadler's Alaska Challenge.
German captures Sadler's 1st stage
The biggest -- and perhaps toughest -- Sadler's Alaska Challenge in history got started Monday in Seward with Elmar Sternath of Germany capturing the first stage of the new rugged course.
New course definitely lives up to race name
With an itinerary that would make a travel agent proud, racers in the Sadler's Alaska Challenge will embark Monday on a seven-day tour of Alaska filled mountains, rivers, glaciers and ferry rides.
Wheelchair, hand cycle race has new brutal road route
New name. New course. New (and more) faces. Yet one thing will remain the same when the world's longest wheelchair and handcycle race celebrates its 25th anniversary in Alaska this summer: It still will serve up a brutal, almost cruel, challenge.
Racers competed in wet and muddy conditions during State Race #2 of Alaska Racing Lions State Motocross Series on Sunday, May 27, 2012, at Jodhpur Track in Kincaid Park.
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Caballo Blanco's last run: The Micah True story
Micah True was an almost mythical ultramarathoner. He was a lone wanderer of the High Sierras. To many, the 58-year-old who died while out on a run represented the road not taken, a purer path, away from career, away from capitalism, away from the clock.
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