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 […]
On The Side Lines
The last week has been tough ‘on the side lines’ watching teammates Mike Blewitt and Imogen Smith rip apart the Craft Bike Trans Alp 2013. TransAlp is one of the toughest team stage races in the world, eight days traversing the ‘alps’ from Mittenwald in Germany down to Riva del Garda in Italy. Today they […]
Training in Winter (in Noosa)
Mike suggested I write something on training in Winter but that is hardly fair to all the southerners (i.e. those south of the Queensland border) as I live and train in Noosa (Queensland) where overnight temperatures are rarely below 10 C and daytime temperatures rarely below 20C . I really don’t think I have the […]
Fay wins the race, King wins the Subaru Australian XCM Championships
This year the XCM Championship race, sponsored by Subaru, was organised in the beautiful Atherton Tablelands just inland of Cairns in North Queensland. Atherton boasts some amazing single trails that are IMBA designed and built, link this with some firetrail climbs and tropical creek crossings and you have the 33km, 1200hm, loop that constituted one […]
Women’s Wombat – Mullens victorious over team mate Thomas
The female start list heralded a strong women’s field with a rematch between 2012 winner Jenny Fay and her nemesis Peta Mullens the main attraction. Lurking in the shadows we have Rowena Fry, Tory Thomas and Melissa Ansett, all three strong technical riders and well suited to the Wombat 100 course. What was not anticipated […]
Need an excuse to eat all your easter eggs?
…. time to start training and get your legs to the start of some up and coming races! If you are tired of attending the same races year after year then there are a few I would like to suggest you pencil into your 2013 agenda. The easter break is the perfect time to […]
Half A Race? by Melinda Maj Jackson
The post race ramblings from a very well known elite female marathon mountain bike racer and successful immigration lawyer who elected to race the 45km Marathon Challenge at Mount Avoca Winery last weekend… I definitely had no regrets about riding half a race today. I have previously scorned the idea of ever entering a short […]
The Last Marathon Challenge
I have ridden some tough mountain bike marathon events in Australia and overseas, the Marathon Challenge is one of few that left me crossing the finish line with nothing ‘good’ to say. When I crossed the finish line at Mount Avoca Winery yesterday I was completely speechless, profanities were all I could muster, apologies to […]
Naomi Hansen: The 2013 Odyssey
There was much anticipation at Forrest 0645 Saturday morning when the elite female field tyred the start line of the new Kona Odyssey 100km course. It was one of the largest and strongest female elite fields I have seen at this, or any other marathon MTB event in Australia. I counted 30 females at the […]
In lieu of The Hellfire Cup 2013
The majority of the members of the mountain bike fraternity are already well aware of the firey demise of the inaugural Hellfire Cup 2013, and the associated destruction that struck the Tasmanian Peninsula earlier this year, but all is not lost, this much anticipated event has been rescheduled November 21-24th 2013. Herein lies a ‘second […]