Try this challenge next year

You say it's been a long political campaign?

I agree.

So, last week when I caught word of this unique way of testing your limits, I reached for a cold beer and thought, "Those poor buggers!"

And then I called Chuck Lindner of Warroad, who organized the 1st Brush Craft Bike Ultra out in the Beltrami Island State Forest in 2015.

For starters, who would want to punish himself for 126 miles on rough roads and maybe get mauled by a mountain lion?

"You gotta be a real man to do this one or be crazy," he said, explaining that there would be three manned checkpoints at various locations - Norris Camp,...