Is it mid-season, or just the beginning? If you are a pure XC racer, you should be hitting some kind of peak for Nationals or Oceanias. If you race a lot of lap based Enduro’s, then you have had a few to while away the summer. But if you’re a Marathon racer – you may […]
Archives for February 2012
Training with the Ford Performance Racing Team
Naomi Hansen is one of Australia’s leading Marathon and Stage Race riders. Beyond looking after all the pets in Noosa at her veterinary practice – she is also racing for the Subaru-MarathonMTB.com Team in 2012 One of the benefits of living and training in Noosa is that you never really know who you may end up […]
2012 Mountains To Beach: The Stage is Set
With less than a month to go, Wild Horizon’s Mountains To Beach mountain bike stage race, kicking off on Monday 5 March 2012, is looking to host some fierce battles. Queensland’s Andy Fellows returns defend his title in 2012, while 2011 second place winner Garry James will also be back and hot on his wheels […]
Subaru-MarathonMTB.com team bike – first impressions.
Preparation for the Kona Odyssey has been ticking along smoothly. Not manic, but smooth and steady. The La Niña weather pattern in Sydney recently has resorted the training regime purely to road miles upon road miles. I’m told road miles early on in the season forms a great base and with any luck this will […]
Ben Thomas: On track for success in 2012
As Mountain Trax rider Ben Thomas explained to MarathonMTB.com last week, marathon events will form a bigger part of his race program in 2012. In the second part of our interview with the 2011 Kielder 100 Champion, Thomas tells us where his season will take him, how he intends to get there and the records […]
Hard racing for clear thinking
It was only at the end of last week that I was ecstatic about the bigger events on my own personal calendar being so imminent. Preparing so many varied elements of your life, lifestyle and fitness for a large proportion of the year is somewhat taxing. Gratefully, the end is in sight – and it’s […]
WildSSide Days 3 and 4.
Rob Parbery should need little introduction for those who live and breathe Mountain Biking in Australia’s South East. He was racing single speed (what else?) at the recent Wild Side MTB Stage Race. His updates from Day One and Day Two make a great read. Here’s the rest of the two wheeled tour. Day 3 […]
Winter night-riding
Night-riding is fun. And at the end of a day at work, it can be particularly satisfying, because it feels as if you’re winning extra riding time. Yes it can be a bit of a mission, especially if like me you work in central London and it’s a half-hour ride home then an hour’s drive to […]
So close you can taste it
Time waits for no man (or woman), and this seems increasingly true as every year passes. The pressures of work, rest and play can actually add up quite a lot. Seeing an Australian summer as an ‘off season’ is odd – even though there are plenty of pro’s who do just that. The sun is […]
WildSSide, Day Two
Rob Parbery has been pedaling a variety of singlespeed bikes longer than you have been able to buy knives from Demtel. Yesterday we had his account of Wildside Day one – and now the saga continues… Day 2 Stage 3 – Sterling Valley Day 3 begins with a short cruise from Tullah to the start […]