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What You Missed Welcome to What You Missed, your daily digest of news from the outdoor world. Today: Triple Crown Challenge, snow tires, and the Bone Zone Presented by ThinkLogo_Black_352x124 (1) Katya Rakhmatulina Set Three New Bikepacking Records This Summer Screen Shot 2023-11-01 at 3.44.24 PM Photo: Patrick Hendry/Unsplash When Katya Rakhmatulina crossed the finish line of the Arizona Trail 800 early in the morning on Sunday, October 29, she didn’t just clinch second place overall and first in the women’s division. She also earned two new bikepacking records, bringing her total for the season to three. Rakhmatulina’s time of 9 days, 19 hours, and 52 minutes beat out the prior women’s record holder for the 806-mile route across Arizona by more than a day. Arizona is the third and final race in the bikepacking Triple Crown Challenge, which also includes the Colorado Trail and Tour Divide. Rakhmatulina was the first person this year to finish the Triple Crown, and set a new women’s record in the process with a cumulative time of 32 days, 6 hours, and 33 minutes across the three races. The 29-year-old rider from Oakland, California, already had one new course record to name from earlier in the summer, when she was the first woman finisher in the 540-mile Colorado Trail race. “This is not surprising, she is iron,” her mother told Bikepacking when she heard about her daughter’s record-setting race in Colorado. Of the three, the Arizona Trail was the most difficult, Rakhmatulina said in an Instagram story on October 30. She reached the finish on foot, her bike strapped to her pack, after getting a flat with less than four miles to go.