Stage 8 (Final Day): 60km. 2700m ascent. Maximum time limit: 6.5hrs. Time taken: 4hrs 5min Like many other stage races, Iron Bike finishes with a relatively easy day. That is, easy compared to the rest of the week and not just a walk in the park! In the book it was 55km with 3 major climbs and 3 descents. […]
Archives for July 2013
English, Cooper, Ward… the quick kids head to Taree!
Australian Marathon Champion Jason English (Merida) heads up a strong elite field with regular top 3 finisher Dylan Cooper of Rockstar racing, Kyle Ward, Anthony Shippard and Mike Blewitt all making the trip north to partake in some of the coolest singletrack and steepest climbs experienced in a marathon race this year. The Subaru-MarathonMTB.com […]
Shaun Lewis wins 3 Ring Circus Matinee
Riders for Wild Horizon’s 3 Ring Circus mountain bike race awoke to a clear, and relatively warm, Southern Highlands morning. By 8am the Wingello Big Top was a whirl of colour as Performers made their way to registration, ready for the Matinee Performance. The Saturday Night Performance was still fresh in many legs as around […]
Matt Page’s Blog: Iron Bike Stages 6 and 7
Stage 6: 90km. 4100m ascent. Maximum time limit: 12hrs. Time taken: 7hrs 06min Today I slept through my alarm for the first time, tiredness has reached a new level and writing this at 6pm I feel like crashing out, but with just 2 days left I hope I can keep things together. Despite sleeping at 1000m it was still […]
Matt Page’s Blog: Settling into Iron Bike
Stage 5: 80km, 3500m ascent (not including chairlift). Maximum time limit: 12hrs. Time taken: 7hrs 40min The longer this race goes on, the harder the recovery becomes, especially after a hard stages it can be really difficult to get everything needed done as well as getting enough sleep. I don’t think I would even consider doing Iron Bike without […]
Matt Page’s Blog: Iron Bike stages 3 and 4
Stage 3: 68km, 1270m ascent. Maximum time limit: 13hrs. Time taken: 5hrs 25min Looking at the route map it looked like an easy day, just one climb and a long descent. I know this race better than to expect an easy day and the 11 maximum time limit was a clue that this was not an easy stage. The […]
Nienke’s Euro Bog: Xterra Italy
Xterra Italy : Happy Faces Smash Races I had another unpleasant experience on the trains after Xterra France. exhausted from the race I dragged my bike and luggage through 3 different countries hopping on and off trains for 8hrs, speaking bad French, bad German and in the end bad English, only to find the car […]
Matt Page’s Blog: Iron Bike
Iron Bike Prologue & Stage 1 This year the prologue was the same format as last year, an urban crit around the start town of Limone Piemonte. It means very little for the overall, other than handing out the leaders jerseys. Its a great way to get the town involved and held at 8pm when […]
Paluma Push 2013
On the coat tails of our teams amazing efforts in Trans Alp 2013, congratulations again to Imogen and Mike, I was soaking up the sun in North Queensland, Paluma to be more precise. The Paluma Push is a 70km (with a 45km option) point to point marathon run annually by the Townsville Rock wheelers. It […]
Kaufmann, Kaess, Bigham, Loevset winners at Transalp
Riva del Garda, Italy, July 20, 2013 – 2012 Transalp winners Alban Lakata (AUT) and Robert Mennen (GER) have wrapped up the 2013 Craft BIKE Transalp powered by Sigma with their first stage win at the eight-day stage race across the Alps. Team Topeak Ergon Racing, who finished as second in the overall ranking of […]