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October 10, 2022 By MarathonMTB Leave a Comment

An ode to the hardtail

Words: Amy Henchoz I’m just gonna say it. Hardtails are awesome. When you can tame them. The feeling of smashing it down a descent when you and the bike are perfectly in tune, feeling everything the bike feels and accepting the abuse, using it to your advantage to feel where the grip is and just […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: amy henchoz, Bike, biking, Hardtail, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, UCI, XCM

April 16, 2022 By Sam Fox Leave a Comment

A return to international travel, and writing blogs

Last year while I travelled overseas, I wrote blogs for MarathonMTB. It was a great way for me to solidify the memories I made, and to reflect on the journey at the same time as sharing it with friends and family.I hadn’t been planning on doing the same again this year, until someone (other than […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: brazil, bridgelane, Europe, sam fox, Travel, World Cup

October 17, 2021 By Justin Morris Leave a Comment

King Island: An untapped cycling gem

Team rider Justin Morris recently took to the remote island of King Island with his CX bike to explore what the island had to offer,

Filed Under: Diaries, MarathonMTB.com Tagged With: Cycle tourism, Gravel, Norco Threshold, Tasmania, Travel, Victoria

July 14, 2021 By Sam Fox 1 Comment

Livign(o) life large in Europe

It can be a lonely experience racing in Europe no matter who you are, but especially so as an Aussie or Kiwi. We travel thousands of kilometres by ourselves, to the opposite side of the world, to race usually alone, with little contact with our family and friends back home. So it’s been a great […]

Filed Under: Diaries, MarathonMTB.com, Team Diary, Training Tagged With: Altitude Training, Cameron Jones, Cameron Wright, Ian Millenium, Livigno, Piper Albrecht, sam fox, training camp, XCO

July 10, 2021 By Sam Fox 2 Comments

Les Get(s) into some more World Cup racing!

It was always the plan to push through the first month of races in Europe with training, however its always disheartening to feel like you’re going backward at each race. So I was looking forward to my second world cup, and a recovery week. Car troubles World Cup round four was situated in Les Gets […]

Filed Under: Diaries, MarathonMTB.com, Reports, Team Diary Tagged With: les gets, muddy, Orbea, Piper Albrecht, sam fox, World Cup, XCO

July 1, 2021 By Sam Fox Leave a Comment

Aussies at Swiss Cup in Savognin

Following my first two races, I was keen to put a proper week of training in again and hopefully find some legs before the next race in Switzerland. The first order of business was buying a fan (the mechanical kind, not the people), to get a good night’s sleep in the heat, and a pillow […]

Filed Under: Diaries, MarathonMTB.com, Team Diary Tagged With: privateer, sam fox, Savognin, Swiss, Travel, XCO

June 27, 2021 By Sam Fox Leave a Comment

MarathonMTB return to Europe

After over a year since any of the MarathonMTB team were overseas, Sam finally managed to fight through the red tape and escape to a European summer, and his first World Cup season

Filed Under: Diaries, MarathonMTB.com, Team Diary Tagged With: Austria, Europe, sam fox, Travel, World Cup, XCO

January 11, 2021 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Otway Odyssey – a look back to the start

In 2007, there was a new race on the calendar – the Otway Odyssey. A 100km race was scheduled to start on the Great Ocean Road at Apollo Bay, and climb up and over the Otway Ranges towards the town of Forrest, where the old logging roads and new singletrack would be tackled, before finishing […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Bike, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, otway odyssey, Rapid Ascent

September 15, 2020 By Justin Morris 1 Comment

Bike racing and training with Type 1 Diabetes

Cycling was not always my passion or my career in life, as a matter of fact at the age of 10 all I could dream about was one day being a pilot! I used to watch fighter pilot movies, play pilot video games and my bedroom wall was platered with posters of jet fighter planes! […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Diabetes, JDRF, Justin Morris, Maddog, mental health, Stage Racing, type 1 diabetes, Type1Diabetes, XCM

July 8, 2020 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Why it’s time to enter the next bike race.

The last bike race I did was the Arabian Epic Series Jordan Stage Race. I flew in and flew out, nursing a few niggles from a silly crash before leaving, which made it all a little uncomfortable on long haul flights! It was probably in the following weeks that I truly realised what an amazing […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Bike, biking, covid 19, MarathonMTB, mountain bike stage race, mountain biking, MTB, Travel

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