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Article: Advantage Colorado Primal Quest attracts racers from around the globe, so why did so many locals finish on top?
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- July 21, 2006
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MOAB, Utah - It's the old chicken-or-the-egg question when it
comes to elite adventure racers and Colorado.
Does the state's ideal terrain create these top athletes, who are
able to run, swim, paddle and do whatever else race designers dream
up for hundreds of miles? Or do already-great racers simply migrate
here?
Either way, the result is the same. Colorado athletes dominate in
the sport.
This year's Primal Quest, a 417-mile scramble in the Utah desert
combining horseback riding, hiking, biking, kayaking, river swimming
and rappelling, attracted teams from around the globe. And when it
was over, four of the top 10 teams hailed, at least partially, from
Colorado.
"Colorado is a hotbed," ...