It is truly amazing what special treats can be uncovered when you least expect it “just riding along”. Last week, Andy and I took our annual pilgrimage to the Clarkes Beach Holiday Park at Byron Bay, we stay 10 days and do pretty much nothing: we camp, we make cocktails, we bake ourselves in the […]
The Brairs Highland Fling 100 MILE
Thanks to the metric system when we Australians race a marathon ‘100’ mountain bike race we race in the vicinity of 90-100 kilometres, a perfect distance for most marathon mountain bike racers. On the other side of the big blue, those crazy Americans have stuck with their own units of measure and propagated the marathon 100 mile […]
LIMBC 2012: Fabulous Fabian and Lea clinch titles
(Langkawi, 20 October 2012): Fabian Giger and Lea Davison have officially conquered the third edition of Langkawi International Mountain Bike Challenge (LIMBC) after executing a well-thought strategy at the penultimate stage of the race today. Giger and Davison paced themselves well in their respective category as both cemented their healthy lead to wrest the challenge trophy at […]
LIMBC Stage 4: Giger and Davison remain as race leaders
(Langkawi, 19 October 2012): Fabian Giger and Lea Davison edged closer for the overall title of Langkawi International Mountain Bike Challenge (LIMBC) 2012 after getting on the podium in the fourth stage today. With only one stage left, Giger is well on his way to grab the challenge’s trophy tomorrow after finishing second in the 27.5 km Stage 4 […]
LIMBC Stage 3: another tough day in the saddle
(Langkawi, 18 Oct 2012): Fabian Giger and Lea Davison are in the driving seats to land the Langkawi International Mountain Bike Challenge 2012 titles after both retained respective leaders’ jersey after the third stage today. Giger from Rabobank-Giant rode a calculated race to stay on course for the overall title by finishing one minute and fifty three […]
LIMBC stage 2: 42km in the heat and rain.
Langkawi (Oct 17, 2012): Fabian Giger retained the yellow jersey as he stretched his domination in the Men’s Open at the second stage of Langkawi International Mountain Bike Challenge (LIMBC) 2012 today. The Rabobank-Giant triumphed after battling the challenging 42km course from East to West of Langkawi by finishing ahead of Karl Platt from Team […]
LIMBC 2012: Prologue and Stage 1
LANGKAWI (Oct 15, 2012): It was a sweet maiden victory for Florian Vogel at the Men Open Prologue Individual Time Trial at Langkawi International Mountain Bike Challenge 2012 (LIMBC). The Scott Swisspower rider was beaming with joy after learning that he clocked the fastest time of 5:08.29 in the 2.4km track at Dataran Legenda today. “I will hang […]
Hydration 102 – getting the fluid in
The week before last, I looked into the importance of appropriate hydration before, during and after training and racing sessions (Hydration 101). In theory it doesn’t look that hard but the reality of carrying and consuming the prescribe amount of fluid to maintain an ideal fluid balance on a hot day vindicates a camel. Sunday […]
Hydration 101 – dealing with racing and training in Summer
Summer is here in Queensland and we all know the importantance of correct hydration and fluid replacement while training, racing and during recovery… or do we? When it comes to animals, I have a background in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care so I appreciate that not all fluids are the same and rehydrating a patient […]
Life is a balancing act
This was my eighth Flight Centre Epic and it ended in a dirty great big DNF at the 50km turn-around, not exactly what i had in mind when I started out this morning but in hindsight I should have seen it coming! My race started out swell, it was a beautiful sunny day at Spicers […]