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Australia and New Zealand have the terrain for epic stage races. We just don’t have many of them besides the Crocodile Trophy. But news has just broken about a new stage race that is taking the Cape Epic mould and applying it along the Southern Alps of New Zealand. The Pioneer was officially launched today […]
This year, the Val di Sole Marathon will return to Male on 30th August. Boasting some of the best singletrack in the Dolomites, this third edition offers two courses: Classic course: 35 km – 1500m elevation gain (XCOPTP) Marathon course: 61 km – 2700m elevation gain (XCM) New for 2015, the race has reduced registration […]
Bendigo might well be the hub for Australian performance cycling. After Canberra, anyway. With the likes of Peta Mullens, Chris Hamilton, Tasman Nankervis, Jarrod Moroni, Dan MacMunn and countless NRS level roadies calling Bendigo home, the per capita “pro” count is pretty high. With just two months to go to the kickoff of the 2015 […]
Form can be a complex maze to negotiate. A left turn instead of a right can have you on the start line feeling like you’re dragging bricks. But are your legs the only ones to fault? Since making the change to training myself for this season, I’ve done a lot of digging around on the […]
Phil Welch is a well known masters athlete in Australia, with great results across events as far reaching as stage races in Poland, solo 24hr races, and the Crocodile Trophy. A recent broken wrist hasn’t really slowed him down – here’s Phil’s take on how to get the most out of training indoors, due to […]
The final stage of the Garden Route 300 offered much to play for. Just 2 minutes separated Contego and Biogen for the win and likewise just 2 minutes separated Altech Autopage and Squirt in the battle for the final spot on the podium. To make matters more interesting just a kilometre after the neutral zone […]
Another day another dollar, with 100km on the cards this morning and some real mountains between us and the finish line, it was going to be a good hard slog out. It fortunately hadn’t rained overnight but there was still a lot of water, and therefore mud on the track. A fast start soon settled […]
