This morning I woke up and headed to the parking lot to unlock my bike from the bike rack and put it in the backseat of my car to take to work.  My co-workers are constantly bringing in their bikes and wheeling them into the office for no apparent reason, so I wanted to do the same.  Only when I got to the parking lot, my bike was gone and my lock was cut clean in half and left lying on the ground.

My bike had officially been stolen.  I had always been a little leery of leaving it chained up outside all the time, but I was told I couldn’t leave my bike on the balcony or even chained up in the basement.  So, I filed a police report and called around to some area bike shops to do some investigating, but I imagine my bike was just one of dozens stolen on this particular day.

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VIRGIN – Frog Hollow Mountain Bike race, which is a single-track trail race one mile south of Virgin, is a grueling race that started at 9 a. m. today and concludes at 3 p. m. Riders compete with the clock to see how many laps they can complete on... The goal of all these mountain bike races is to complete as many laps as possible within a given time frame. Today’s Frog Hollow race is a 6-hour hybrid of its sister race of 25-hours consecutively to be held at Frog Hollow in November. The Frog Hollow race is sponsored by Gro-Promotions , which also sponsors the True Grit Race annually in March, a 150-mile options point-to-point. Today’s race, though one quarter the time involved for its November sister race, is grueling. UPDATE with winner of today’s Frog Hollow race will follow from St. George News as results are in. dhyland@stgnews.

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