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Big-box parking lots are an easy stopgap, but there’s so much public land waiting for those willing to look a little A few weeks ago, we were headed east on I-10 across southern Arizona en route to Rockhound State Park…

Americans tend to equate cycling with frivolity, but riding bikes can be serious business Among the many absurd reasons people cite for opposing new bicycle-infrastructure projects, one of the more vexing ones is that it’s somehow a waste of money…

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> Early last summer, a friend asked me if I would take her 11-year-old daughter running. There was a local 5K coming up in a few weeks, and she thought I could help coach the girl to success in her…

A wintertime search-and-rescue drama that began with a predawn disappearance and a single terrifying clue: blood. No big deal, though. All we needed was a miracle. Facebook Icon Twitter Icon sms email “There was a lot of fur,” said a…

Using publicly available data, advocacy group People for Bikes wants to show community leaders what they can do to improve cycling infrastructure in their cities What do Fort Collins, Colorado; Wausau, Wisconsin; Tucson, Arizona; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Washington, D.C.,…

This weekend in New York City, a group of runners braved 211 laps around the track in pursuit of a niche world record “I’m not trying to insult anybody, but I feel like this is an event for running geeks,”…