Blackwater 100: America’s Toughest Race

It was a 100-mile cross-country off-road race like no other, held every June from 1975 to 1993 in the dark north woods of West Virginia. Beginning and ending in the sleepy town of Davis, each race lap served up 20 miles of brutal riding — nay, survival! — through countryside home to waist-deep mud bogs and gnarly woods where tree roots as thick and stubborn as elephant legs consumed the trails. There was never time to relax as riders also faced fast-moving streams and abandoned saw mills, and struggled up and down steep hillsides in Canaan Valley before winding back to the start/finish line on Main Street… read more >