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May 18th was an active day for events in Central Arkansas. One of those events was the inaugural River Cities Dragon Boat Festival on Victory Lake at Burns Park in North Little Rock. According to the festival website, Dragon Boat racing is an ancient tradition: Dating back more than 2,300 years, Dragon Boat racing features [...]
There were 229 rides, 184 cities, 45 US states, 31 countries around the world, and thousands of women. Sunday May 12th, 2013 We Rode Together for the second chapter in the story of Cyclofemme. Women around the world, including in some unexpected places like Rwanda, Ethiopia and India, got on their two wheeled contraptions and [...]
Last year I decided to join in the fun of a night time “trail” run on the forest roads around Lake Sylvia West of Little Rock. In years past, this race has been put on by the running community as a come out, sign up, donate if you want to, run and then stick around [...]
Over the past few years I’ve been to my fair share of local bike events but nothing prepared me for the spectator delight that is the Joe Martin Stage Race. As usual our time commitment level was running high and only one of the two Arkansas Outside Power Couple could make it up to Fayettville [...]
We’ve talked about our Cyclofemme Ride in 2012. We’ve committed to doing it again this year. We’ve set up an event page on Facebook for Cyclofemme Central Arkansas 2013 and added it to our online calendar. Now all we need is You. Cyclofemme, and the inspiration behind it has been getting well deserved attention from [...]
In the early morning darkness, the flashlights and headlamps bobbing through the parking lot, a hundred and fifty odd runners plus their support teams, families and friends milled about collecting race bags and bib numbers and waiting for Race Director and Queen of all things Ouachita 50 Chrissy Ferguson, to give her expletive punctuated pre-race [...]
There is something special about the community that sprouts up during longer runs, especially trail runs where course markings are scarce and sometimes hidden. Rough terrain gives runners reason to work together, warn each other and to slow the pace just a bit, or sometimes a lot. This is the second year for the Hoof [...]
Arkansas Outside’s Top 10 list of things said or overheard during and after the Ouachita Challenge Tour and Race. We’re not David Letterman, but we can try. 10. “Oh no. You caught my pain face.” Tammy Hottinger 9. “I missed the cutoff but at least I don’t have to climb Gaston Mountain now.” Laura Wooldridge [...]
Of all the very interesting, sometimes frightening and often amusing things people have said to us when we are out and about in our Arkansas Outside personas, “Here, you should hold one of my legs” is in my top 10 most memorable lines. That’s not surprising considering the line was uttered by someone who is [...]
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.~Langston Hughes The morning could have started with a list of disappointments. There was a cool rain that was oscillating between a gentle trickle and occasional stinging downpours. The marks so carefully placed [...]
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