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2009 | Best Place to Mountain-Bike or Kayak

The Oleta River is close enough to get to yet distant enough that it's pretty much the best place around to do outdoor activities such as mountain biking and kayaking. Sure, mountain biking in Florida is a lot like sunbathing in Antarctica: Nature won't quite permit it. Florida's landscape may be flat as a runway model's chest, but over at Oleta River State Park -- the state's largest urban park -- bikers have outsmarted old Mother Earth. Here a field of man-made dirt jumps and... More »
2007 | Best Place To Jog

While the boardwalk in South Beach boasts stunning ocean views, Key Biscayne a mammoth heart-stopping bridge, and the Venetian Causeway calm idyllic roads, Oleta Park offers joggers a little something extra: shade. Runners know that for eight months out of the year in our scorching city, doing any kind of physical activity after 9:00 a.m. without passing out from heat stroke is nearly impossible. And who wants to climb out of bed before the sun risesç For a solution, head to Oleta.... More »

Top Five Miami Parks For a Memorial Day Barbecue

By Kareem Shaker | Fri, May 25, 2012

While the rest of the nation is celebrating just being able to leave the house without mittens and and a scarf on, it will be just another warm, sunny weekend for us here in South Florida. So why not ... More »
Miami Spartan Race 2012 (Video)

By Chuck Strouse | Sun, February 26, 2012

Miami's Spartan Race took place Saturday and continues tomorrow, Sunday. Thousands showed up. Many ran through mud, slipped under barbed wire, and pulled huge tires for two hours. It was amazing, thou... More »
The Spartan Race: "We are Getting Humans Back to Being Humans"

By Chuck Strouse | Thu, February 23, 2012

When Joe DeSena started the first "Spartan Race" in Pittsfield, Vermont, about eight years ago, he had no idea it would become an international phenomenon drawing 300,000 plus people.Nor did the forme... More »
Spartan Race: Running for Your Life (Video)

By Joshua Abril | Tue, April 26, 2011

?The Spartan Race is one of the most physically demanding competitions open to the general public--an eight-mile trek designed, in part, by British Royal Marines and filled with obstacles to make you ... More »

2009 | Best Place to Mountain-Bike or Kayak