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I might have to hit both of these. No big air for me.

Crankworx Colorado
Whistler Resort, home of the Crankworx Freeride Festival, has partnered with Colorado's Winter Park Resort to produce Crankworx Colorado. The event will be held at Winter Park, Colorado July 5-7, 2007.

Like the Canadian event, the Colorado Crankworx will feature a cross-country race, a downhill event modeled after Whistler's notorious Air Downhill, a Super D and a Big Air competition. The Colorado event will also feature a Slopestyle competition, which combines dirt jumping and on-bike aerobatics. The Winter Park Slopestyle course will be designed by famous course designer John Cowan, known best for having built San Diego's Hell Track.

Winter Park Resort is located approximately 50 miles west of Denver. Whistler's 2007 Crankworx festival runs July 21-29 and is sponsored by Kokanee beer.

"Every year Whistler's Crankworx outdoes itself," said Rob McSkimming, VP of Business Development at Whistler Blackcomb. "We are committed to providing the ultimate forum for the evolution of freeride mountain biking and we are stoked to work with Winter Park's crew to bring Crankworx to Colorado. The freeride mountain bike terrain at Winter Park is gaining more and more recognition in the mountain bike community and Crankworx Colorado will introduce their epic single-track to even more riders."

For more information see www.crankworxcolorado.com.

Firecracker 50 to Host U.S. Marathon National Championships
Breckenridge, Colorado's Firecracker 50 mountain-bike race has been designated as the 2007 and 2008 USA Cycling Mountain Bike Marathon National Championships, the national governing body announced.

The July 4 event will host national championship races for men and women in numerous categories: Pro/Open; 19+, 19-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-49 and 50+ for men and 19+, 19-29, 30-39 and 40+ for women. Each category winner will take home a stars and stripes jersey. The event will be held independently of the USA Cycling Mountain-Bike National Championships, held July 17-22 at Mount Snow, Vermont. That venue could not hold the Marathon national championships due to land availability.

Athletes will complete two 25-mile laps around the event's rocky course. The event will once again begin with a neutral start through downtown Breckenridge, and will be part of the town's annual Fourth of July parade on Main Street.

In its seventh year, the Firecracker 50 will also host non-national championship bike races for juniors, beginners, sport racers and expert teams. A complete schedule of the event is available at www.mavsports.com.