{"id":18395,"date":"2025-08-03T15:50:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T15:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boggy-draw-beat-down-caps-another-successful-ride\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:03:31","slug":"boggy-draw-beat-down-caps-another-successful-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/boggy-draw-beat-down-caps-another-successful-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Boggy Draw Beat Down caps another successful ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cortez
Cortez rider Chase Wesley leads another rider as he closes out the final miles of the 2025 Boggy Draw Beat Down on the McPhee Overlook Trail in Dolores after riding the circuits of the Boggy Draw trail system. The 27th year of the Boggy Draw Beat Down drew hundreds of riders from across the region to compete in a variety of race distances. Ben Bradley\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

DOLORES \u2013 As with many endurance races, the Boggy Draw Beat Down offers a race within a race. While many of the hundreds of competitors on Dolores\u2019 Boggy Draw trail system may track their placement within their distance and age group divisions, so much of the journey around the single-track trails pits a competitor against themselves.<\/p>\n

With the temperatures warming into the 80s by the latter stages of the longer races, the final stretch of the Beat Down presents the riders with the tantalizing presence of McPhee Reservoir as they cap their traverse of 60, 33, or 18 miles through the dirt tracks north of town.<\/p>\n

The 27th edition of the Boggy Draw Beat Down tested athletes once again, bringing the best out of athletes from Montezuma and La Plata counties, as well as athletes converging on Dolores from all across the country.<\/p>\n

\"Cortez
Cortez rider Chase Wesley leads another rider as he closes out the final miles of the 2025 Boggy Draw Beat Down on the McPhee Overlook Trail in Dolores after riding the circuits of the Boggy Draw trail system. The 27th year of the Boggy Draw Beat Down drew hundreds of riders from across the region to compete in a variety of race distances. Ben Bradley\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cortez
Cortez rider Chase Wesley leads another rider as he closes out the final miles of the 2025 Boggy Draw Beat Down on the McPhee Overlook Trail in Dolores after riding the circuits of the Boggy Draw trail system. The 27th year of the Boggy Draw Beat Down drew hundreds of riders from across the region to compete in a variety of race distances. Ben Bradley\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Some opted to camp across the street from the start line at Joe Rowell Park \u2013 a new option for competitors this year \u2013 waking up in the early morning hours to prepare to climb County Road 526 out of town and onto the extensive trails that would challenge them all morning.<\/p>\n

Run by the Rotary Club of Dolores and supported by numerous organizations within the community, the race continues to serve the mission of raising funds to support local youth projects and organizations. Local race teams like High Desert Devo have made the Beat Down into an annual tradition, as well, giving plenty of mountain biking youths the chance to race on trails that they\u2019ve become accustomed to training on over their formative years of cycling.<\/p>\n

The Boggy Draw Beat Down continues to accommodate racers of all ages and experience levels, offering distances ranging from 3 miles up to 60 in the competition\u2019s longest venture. With the finish at Flanders Park, riders who had finished hollered out hearty cheers for the racers crossing the line from the longer races.<\/p>\n

In the Beat Down distance, riders traversed a considerable amount of the Boggy Draw system, covering 60 miles before finishing on the McPhee Overlook trail. Travis Brown covered the distance in 4 hours and 51 minutes to win the longest ride by 11 minutes over Michael Palmer. Amanda Felder of Sedona, Arizona, took third overall and first in the women\u2019s division, while local Shawn Gregory finished on the podium for the men\u2019s race while taking fourth overall. Durango\u2019s Blair Matlock took second in the women\u2019s race, while Telluride\u2019s Kristen Craine claimed third.<\/p>\n

In the 33-mile Oso division, Dolores native and race-regular Ross Delaplane finished with a nearly identical time to last year while taking second overall, six minutes behind Durango\u2019s Samuel Morrison, who won the race in two hours, 26 minutes. Mancos\u2019 Alexander Boone took third in a time of two hours, 34 minutes.<\/p>\n

The 33-mile women\u2019s race went to Diedre Morrison of Durango, who followed up her 18-mile win from 2024 with a victory in the next-longest division. Jessica Wood took second, three minutes behind Morrison\u2019s winning time of two hours, 49 minutes, while Cortez rider Sara Parks took third.<\/p>\n

The 18-mile race podium included a quartet of Durango riders, with two men and women from the La Plata County seat finishing in the top three. Fielder Lecompte won the men\u2019s race in one hour, 20 minutes, while Delyla Kroenung won the women\u2019s race in one hour, 27 minutes.<\/p>\n

Matt Pavelek of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Sean Peck of Durango closed out the men\u2019s top-three, while Lorna Campbell of Hesperus made it a La Plata County sweep in the women\u2019s race, riding in front of Durango\u2019s Kristina Folcik-Stone.<\/p>\n

In the 15-mile race, Cortez produced four riders on the podium between the men\u2019s and women\u2019s competitions, with Byron Crites crossing the line just one second in front of fellow-Cortez rider Grady White for the top two men\u2019s spots. CJ Condon of Castle Rock took third, while Caroline Condon won the women\u2019s race, while Cortez\u2019 Elizabeth Weber and Macie McDonald took second and third, respectively.<\/p>\n

In the \u2018Three Amigos\u2019 category in the 60-mile relay, The Three Turtles from Bayfield took top honors, while the Beat Down also hosted another edition of the 3-mile circuit around town to offer an option for families, youths, and more casual riders.<\/p>\n

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