Hodge Prevails Again

Hodge Prevails Again

By Jay Unver

(Lehrton, Mississippi) Fresh on the heels of his Heart O' Dixie victory over rival Randy Beets, Zane Hodge did it again a single week later by obliterating his too tall nemesis at the 2019 Bikes, Blues[,] & Bayous cycling event.

Like the Heart O' Dixie Triathlon, this race is the Big ASS World Championship for Association athletes who enter. By thrashing Beets, Hodge is now the 2019 Big ASS World Triathlon Champion, World Road Cycling Champion, World Open Water Swimming Champion, and World 5K Running Champion.

Beets has no championships this year and has lost several in abstentia contests to the Greenwood native.

Hodge related that he also hopes to add the 10K and marathon running distances to his list of championships this year and possibly some others.

"It feels great, and his butt definitely needed kicking," a jubilant Hodge said after completing Saturday's ride. I am going to finish the year out beating him in one event after the other. This winter he is going down every week."

Hodge lit up like a Christmas tree when asked about the new power lifting and strongman divisions added to Big ASS. "That stuff is right up my alley. I am going to whip him from pillar to post. He'll wish he never joined the Association."

Big ASS Endurance was formed when The Association of Sports Syclists, The Association of Sports Shufflers, and The Association of Sports Swimmers merged into one group. Later, The Association of Sports Strikers was formed and became a part of Big ASS although the proposed boxing and MMA events have never materialized due in large part to Randy Beets' mother suing the organization to prevent Hodge from pummeling her son her son Randy in the long anticipated inaugural fight. Now, the Association of Sports Strongman becomes the latest subsidiary of the world's most unusual athletic governing body. The Stongman division will oversee not only strongman events, but power lifting and possible weightlifting as well.

Hodge thinks he can dominate the new division for years to come. Time will tell.