Stacey's story: Arctic Bicycle Club XCO 7

BaseCamp athlete Stacey Kolstad shared her experience at the 2026 Arctic Bicycle Club XCO Race 7 in Alaska.

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• Last mountain bike race of the season ☹️

• Location Anchorage Hilltop: Roots edition!

• My usual countdown 😎

• 7 races in the series

• 6 races completed

• 5 races needed to qualify for the series standings

• 38 minutes of all out zone red

• 2 mountain bike races in two days

• 1st in the intermediate series (best of 5 of the 7 races) only as I was the only one in that group that did all 5; most were in the much cooler 2 lap divisions

• 0 bears (seen), lots of scat