(Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles chronicling the intense training of Minden Press-Herald employee Karen Gulledge as she prepares and rides in the 60-plus mile Ouachita Challenge.)
"I need to do something epic," my wife, Karen Gulledge, said at the end of this past spring. "I want something big to train for."
She found that "something epic" in a 60-plus mile mountain biking race in and around Oden, Arkansas in the Ouachita Mountains called the Ouachita Challenge, or just "OC" for short.

A Doyline man who was charged in October with Internet crimes against children, received 10 years hard labor from district court Judge Jeff Cox on Friday.



