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September 22, 2022 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Absa Cape Epic 2023 Route: full analysis

The Absa Cape Epic route reveal is one of the most hotly awaited stories of the mountain bike stage racing calendar. With its well-deserved reputation as the hardest-fought and toughtest physical challenge on two wheels, we’ve been checking and rechecking our emails in anticipation of the 2023 route release – and here it is. By […]

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February 7, 2021 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Day Three at the Snowies MTB Festival

Riders woke today to a perfect Snowy Mountain dawn – still mountains, pink glowing eucalypts, and bright sunshine. Much of the water that came down from the enormous ranges had washed away overnight, as had the wind, leaving the mountains brightly-scrubbed and the trails in mint condition. After an early shuttle to Friday Flat at […]

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February 6, 2021 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Day Two at the Snowies MTB Festival

Rain delays and flooded trails The adventures of today actually started at about 5pm yesterday when the rain started to fall. A sprinkle at first became a howling mountain gale that raged through the night. The stiff wind blew the clouds eastward by morning, but the system had dropped over 100mm of water on the […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Bike, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, MTB, Snowies MTB Festival, Stage Race

February 5, 2021 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Day One at the Snowies MTB Festival

Thanks to a lot of hard work from a lot of people, the 2021 Snowies MTB Festival is ON. It is tempting – so tempting – to draw some inspo from that poem (all the tried and noted riders… loved hard riding… hidden ground full of wombat holes…etc. etc.) but someone’s probably done that already […]

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March 13, 2020 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Cape Epic 2020 – we need more than luck

Imogen Smith Cape Town Cape Epic

Everyone wishing me well for the Cape Epic has reminded me to be safe, and wished me luck. It’s no accident that these two things come up time and again in conversations about the great untamed African race. In 2018, my team-mate Briony managed to get food poisoning, have all her money stolen by an […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: cape epic, coronavirus, COVID-19, Marathon Racing, mountain bike stage race, Stage Racing

January 22, 2020 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Sizing up the Absa Cape Epic 2020

The Cape Epic is coming, and I am going to be there. The world’s most televised mountain bike event. The untamed, the big one, the Tour de France of mountain biking. Call it what you will, I’ve seen the routes, seen the GoPro vision, seen the helicopters, and I am smart enough to know that […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: cape epic, epic legend, epic series, Imogen Smith, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, shimano mtb, south africa, Stage Race, Swiss Epic, Travel

August 23, 2019 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Swiss Epic 2019 Stage 3

Every race has one, and today was the Swiss Epic’s Queen Stage. The most demanding, most emotional, hardest stage of the race. Today took in 80km and 2,200m of climbing, and while on paper this may look easier than other stages (think stage 1, with 3,000m climbing), the technicality of today’s trails, and the repeated, […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: epic series, marathon mountain bike, MarathonMTB, mountain bike stage race, Stage Racing, Swiss Epic, Switzerland, XCM

August 21, 2019 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Swiss Epic 2019 Stage 2

The Swiss Epic’s second stage presented us with a grand tour of St Moritz, the iconic ski town of luxury shops and private jets. So it was kindof a shame to see two hundred bikers tramp through reception in filthy gear yesterday and pretty much ruin the carpet at our lovely hotel, but nobody seemed […]

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August 21, 2019 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Swiss Epic 2019 Stage 1

Last time I came to the Swiss Epic was in 2015 and the event was based in the Valais region, with the route taking us from Verbier to Zermatt. This year, the fifth year of the race, the Swiss Epic roadshow has left the Valais region for the first time and headed to Graubuenden – […]

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May 12, 2019 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

On test: Camelbak Ultra 10 Vest

The world of marathon and stage racing has some unique demands on equipment, especially when weather, nutrition and self-sufficiency come into play. After Mike raved about the Camelbak Octane 10, it was time to find a large but light pack for myself. The Camelbak Ultra 10 is superlight at just 280g for the bag, and […]

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: backpack, biking, camelbak, camelbak ultra Vest, endurance, hydration vest, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, on test, outside, tested

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