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The Epic; it’s perhaps the biggest mountain biking event on the Queensland calendar, and has well and truly earned its place through 14 years of events in many different forms. The 2016 Epic was just that, epic, but quite a far cry from the 114km, fireroad-heavy races of the early editions of the race. This year […]
Jacks Ridge XXX, in northern NSW’s coastal town of Nambucca, has been steadily increasing in popularity year after year. The lap-based marathon takes in almost all of Nambucca’s Jacks Ridge trail network, a 13.5km loop repeated 8 times for a total of 108km race distance (or 90km if, like me, you have a GPS unit that prefers to […]
In 2014, Jan Leverton got a bunch of women who were new to mountain biking together on the Sunshine Coast to take part in a beginner mountain bike course. As part of this, Leverton sewed the seed of a women-only mountain bike event as a goal for some of these fresh mountain bike women to ‘have a crack’ at […]
Epic: noun (informal); an exceptionally long and arduous task or activity. adjective; heroic or grand in scale or character. “his epic journey around the world” . synonyms: ambitious, heroic, grand, arduous, extraordinary, Herculean; More informal particularly impressive or remarkable. “the gig last night was epic” The Flight Centre Active Travel Epic certainly doesn’t look the […]
Weary bodies lined up outside the Chifley Hotel for the 6th and final stage of the 2015 Redback. For some, the weariness meant the plan was to ‘just survive’ while others more towards the pointy end, this was the final chance for mountain biking glory. Stage 6 began with a neutral start rolling from the […]
Stage 4 Results (Ground Effect Night Stage) Men 1. Craig COOKE 00:53:27 2. Ben HOGARTH 00:55:15 3. James DOWNING 00:55:49 Women 1. Holly HARRIS 01:03:09 2. Terri RHODES 01:04:55 3. Kim WILLOCKS 01:08:21 After the dual-stage day one and two of the Redback, day three featured only one stage. Rapid Ascent had amended the format […]
Results from Stage 2: Anzac Hill Sprint Local junior Luke Pankhurst sped up Anzac Hill to take the win last night in a speed of 00:00:46. In the women’s Holly Harris stamped her mark on the 2015 race backing up her stage 1 win with a convincing 00:00:59. Men 1. Luke Pankhurst 00:00:44 2. Ben […]
Category: Reports Tags: Redback, Alice Springs, DotheNT, ExploreNT, Stage Race, Alice Springs Stage one of the Redback was a 38km stage that began, like most of the stages of the Redback, at the social hour of 0930. Just to ease into things a bit, the stage started from the Chifley Resort—the event centre—and had a […]
