The last 6 months have been all about decision making, some choices were made for me, some I had to figure out myself. My newly acquired obsession with motivational video clips, some very cliché, some worth watching, made me come back over and over again to this one sentence, which goes as follows; “Make […]
ICME Enduro MTB : Stage 7 : Rocky Racing Comes To An End
What a week it has been, rain, mud, rocks, and finally the sun came out for the final stage of the ICME. Very exiting racing in the men’s and the women’s fields was about to come to an end and although happy to give my legs a break, this week had gone way to fast! […]
ICME MTB Enduro Stage 5 and 6 : Fast and Furious
Stage 5 and 6 of the ICME endure was raced over the same course, a 25km fast technical loop over the stunningly positioned Golf Course of Alice Springs. The morning stage was an individual time trial where riders would leave the start 30 sec apart. Fast technical riding is not my strength and I struggled […]
ICME MTB Enduro : Stage 4: A Marathon with an orientering leg
There are always a lot of stories after a Mountain bike race, about the terrain, the course, the tactics, lines being taken, lines being missed. Sometimes you wonder if it is the same race they are talking about. The talk of yesterday’s stage was Kyle Ward finishing the last 30km without being able […]
ICME Enduro MTB Stage 3 : Rock Galore
During a drunken night out post Convict 100 I happily offered to share my free accommodation for the ICME stage race to Micheal Crosby who probably wouldn’t have been able to afford coming up otherwise. When later that same night Kyle Ward asked me if he could come also, I enthusiastically babbled drunkenly, yes […]
ICME Stage 2 : Ready… Set… Go…
After an hour cleaning the bike, a hot shower and lots of food, most of the afternoon was spent lazying around the room spyching each other up for the 300m TT Hill climb we had to do in the afternoon. I am not a sprinter, not even close, I can actually say I dont even […]
ICME MTB Enduro : Stage 1: A Muddy Affair
Since joining the Marathon MTB team 6 months ago I have seen more of Australia travelling to races all over the country than I have in the 2 years I have lived here. When Mike asked me if I would be interested to race the ICME stage race in Alice Spring, I didn’t have to […]
The Convict 100 : Rocky Business
Related Event: XCM Series: Convict 100
The Convict 100 course is in the beautiful Hawkesbury area with Old Great North Road as its key feature. The road was built by the convicts in the 1800’s to link Sydney with Newcastle, although it was never really used which is good because it’s not the smoothest piece of road around…. Over the last […]
A new approach to racing : Learning how to ride a bike
I have spent the last 4 years racing and training with age group triathletes, and I have realised that the focus is hardly ever on technique, that drills or skill sessions are rarely incorporated into training programs. Not out of a lack of trying by coaches but more so out of lack of interest by […]
XCM Nationals : When Life Gets In The Way
When I planned my racing Calendar at the end of December I knew it was going to be tough, I planned to be racing every second to third weekend with a lot of travel. Victoria, Philippines, Cairns… As a vet I work every second weekend which meant I was either working the weekend or I […]