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End summer right. Celebrate Labor Day with our make-your-own backyard pentathlon.
Mike Donoghue, the founder of Amphibious Medics, a private medical-staffing contractor for the nation’s largest events, including Tough Mudder and Spartan Race, offers his insider tips
Surefire energy comes with Hobie Call's delicious wheatgrass smoothie
Outdoor retailer is here. Get plugged in with the latest and greatest new electronics.
From the floor of the world's biggest outdoor industry meetup, we bring you the up-and-coming companies and products that caught our eye
Obstacle races are slowly supplanting 5ks as the Weekend Warrior’s activity of choice. But with so many choices how does one know which grueling crawl under barbed wire is the right one for them?
Obstacle-course racing is the nation’s fastest-growing sport, with millions of annual participants. It’s time to join the party with our handy guide to all things obstacle racing.
The pros share their secrets for tackling the sport’s most popular obstacles
The eight-week training plan for obstacle-course domination. PLUS: The Dos and Don'ts of race day gear
The obstacle racing phenom on how he stays fit to compete
It’s hard to reimagine the sleeping bag, which is why we’re so impressed with the new Backcountry Bed.
So-called maximum cushioning running shoes, as the Conquest’s are often referred, are definitely having a moment.
Will cease to sanction mountain bike events through the body
The big surprise about the return of great whites to the birthplace of Jaws? No one’s freaking out.
Just back from following Le Tour, our writer explains why every cyclist should book a flight to France now, while the ticket prices are still inexpensive
Flying a kite may be child’s play. But done right it can be serious, no-holds-barred child’s play.
One of the worst massacres in mountaineering history happened this summer in Pakistan. Will it happen again?
Chris Sharma may be 32, but he’s still pushing the sport’s limits as a pioneer of deep-water soloing.
Alejo Muniz wins $100,000 in a wave-less finale, and eight spectators are arrested in a riot.
The Olympic decathlete on how to eat, train, and perform better
Five great exercises you can do in just 20 minutes
A gran fondo with climbs so beautifully painful that our writer will be going back to ride again on European roads
Ted Manning tells OBJ his plans for Ibex, where he recently took the post of CEO
I spend a lot of time training and competing in various sports—cycling, running, and basketball—you name it. My wife and I would like to have a baby soon, so I would like to know if there are there any sports that could hurt my sperm count.
I want to hike up a live— or at least dormant—volcano. Where can I go without getting scorched?
Teaching your kids the basic physical skills they’ll need is child’s play, literally. Start improving their coordination, strength, balance, and more with these five games.
How old are most Tour de France winners? At 34, could I even be a contender?
Can you say “good genetics”? These six clans own their fields generation after generation.
Maybe you're raising a family of kayakers and runners, but you should still teach your children to play tennis and mini-golf. Here's why.
This year's Tour was one of the most exciting to date. We look back on the race's most riveting moments and explore its most important trends.
Not a week goes by without a study pegging weight gain to genetics. But the connection between heredity and making your racing weight may be more tenuous than it appears at first glance.
Don’t sweat the small stuff, but be sure to bring it along.
Jennifer Kessy and April Ross prepare for domination
Getting around the laws that make overnight seaside camping frustratingly difficult
When the Great Recession hit, young people found a million different ways to cope with their battered job prospects. Alex and Nick Kleeman found the best way, scraping together enough cash to buy a 32-foot sailboat, then plunging into the Pacific for the adventure of their lives. So what if they didn’t know how to sail?
Escaping the easy way with summer’s coolest new ride, the M8 Rivoli
The founder of a SoCal startup is gearing up to give us equipment for car camping that’s right for the job and looks hot. Please, let it be so.
This race machine may not have a ton of cachet, but it rides just as well many other high-end boutique bikes and costs a fair bit less
SeaWorld has called the new documentary Blackfish, about its treatment of orcas in captivity, “shamefully dishonest, deliberately misleading, and scientifically inaccurate.” But the co-writer argues that the facts speak for themselves.
