The race for series honours heats up at Awaba With wildly fluctuating forecasts in the lead up to the third round of the Finish Line Singletrack Mind MTB Series, competitors and the organisers Chocolate Foot were very pleased to be blessed with perfect weather including a light overnight shower which would add grip to the […]
Archives for August 2014
Transalp and BIKE Four Peaks set 2015 dates
Just after the 2014 Craft BIKE Transalp finished, the dates for the 2015 event, and that of it’s sister event, BIKE Four Peaks, have been announced. The Transalp has run since 1998, and until 2013 ran as an eight day stage race from southern Germany to Lake Garda, Italy. In 2014, the race shifted to […]
Justin Morris’ Blog: Searching through pain for joy
G’day mates, it has been a busy past few months traversing continents, road bike miles, MTB miles, moments of joy also episodes of intense anger and disappointment. Such is life on the road as an athlete. You take the highs with the lows. In April I lined up for my first ever race in the Middle […]
Sudety MTB Challenge 2014 Stage 5: The final to Kudowa-Zdroj
Stage 5 – Walim to Kudowa-Zdroj: 80 kilometres What happened? After a whole day of rain yesterday, a bit more overnight, and a cloudy, foggy morning, riders could have been forgiven for wishing that organisers would take pity on them and shorten the 80km Queen Stage of Sudety MTB Challenge 2014 just a little. Yesterday’s 44km […]
Sudety MTB Challenge 2014: Stage 4, Wallowing in mud to Warim
Stage 4 Bardo to Walim, 44.2 kilometres What happened? With plenty of rain from the award ceremony onwards, Stage 4 would be wet. And it wasn’t a case of the water just coming up from the ground, it was falling from the sky as well. This race has a jovial vibe, people are having fun. […]