Gerry Pflug took the singlespeed title

Riders suffered over 13,000 feet vertical in Tennessee

Although electrical storms moved through well before the start of the Fool's Gold Rush race in Georgia on Sunday, heavy and steady rains remained causing a viscous mud bath at race 7 in the National Ultra Endurance Series.

Hundreds of ultra-endurance athletes will roll out Saturday for the start of the Breckenridge 100 Mountain Bike Challenge, which is race number four of the growing Kenda (NUE) National Ultra Endurance Series.