Pua Mata

The American talks about winning the brutal, three-day race in Costa Rica

For Durán, it was his first victory — and his first La Ruta, clinched on stage one. Mata, meanwhile, won all three stages

Alex Grant moves to second and Todd Wells dips out of contention with a flat

Mata jumps out to 36-minute lead on first day of 2013 La Ruta

La Ruta de los Conquistadores opens Thursday on Costa Rica's Pacific coast

Cannondale rules the first Grand Junction Off-Road

The Cannondale-ShoAir rider opens a gap going into the second lap and never looks back

Jeremiah Bishop, Max Plaxton, Tinker Juarez, Pua Mata join forces for 2013 mountain bike campaign

American Todd Wells finished strong but couldn't defend his 2011 title

American Pua Mata was having fun, but defending champ Todd Wells was finding the competition a little faster this year

Todd Wells and Pua Mata won the marathon national championships, held Saturday in Bend, Oregon

From Alban Lakata's win to Rebecca Rusch's record-breaking ride, Powerline to Colombine, all the most exciting moments

The women's Leadville Trail 100 winners from the finish line

Who to watch, what to avoid and how to cope with the rigors of the Leadville Trail 100

Riders gathered in Snowmass, Colorado to compete in the season's final Pro UET race, the 12 Hours of Snowmass

How did the gunslingers battle it out in Whiskey Row? Get the race report from Gould, Mata and Kabush and footage from the race

Organizers promise "showdown kin to that of Whiskey Row's heyday as the quintessential old west town inhabited by unruly gunslingers"

USA Cycling announced the dates and locations for the 2012 USA Cycling Pro Mountain Bike Ultra-Endurance Tour

Bend residents took stars and stripes jerseys in five categories at the 2011 USA Cycling Mountain Bike Marathon National Championships

Check out the winning bikes of the 2011 Leadville 100 MTB

Rebecca, Gretchen and Pua really burnt up the Leadville course with record breaking finish times.

2011 LT100 Womens finish and post race interviews. Finish line video and sound from Rusch, Reeves, W's 1st and 2nd.

Pre race interview with Pua Mata

Pua Mata is back on the bike and endurance races with Team Sho-Air

A knot of pro men are vying for the lead in the six-day, lung-busting event known as the Breck Epic in Colorado. Read some of the mental wanderings of Sarah Uhl, someone not vying for the lead but busting butt nonetheless at the Epic.

SEA OTTER: Singletrack.com talks to some familiar faces — Mike Sinyard, Pua Sawicki and Christoph Sauser — out and about at the Classic's expo

Sid Taberlay and Pua Sawicki repeated their 2009 wins at the Sage Brush Safari east of San Diego on Sunday.

The Sage Brush Safari set for this weekend in SoCal is the first event under the US Cup/Kenda Cup banner for 2010.

To raise money for waging a European World Cup campaign and hopeful Olympic berth, six-time national endurance mountain bike champ Pua Sawicki will raffle her Team Mata Carriage C-Force fifth-wheel toy hauler and Ford F-250.

Also attending SoCal league benefit are Southern California-based riders Pua Sawicki, Brian Lopes and Sid Taberlay.

American Pua Sawicki notches a top-10 finish at Marathon World Championships in Austria while Belgian Roel Paulissen and German Sabine Spitz take men's and women's titles.