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May 21, 2020 By Justin Morris 1 Comment

My favourite event: The Simpson Desert Bike Challenge

Justin Morris Simpson Desert Bike Challenge MarathonMTB Subaru

With the enforced hiatus from racing upon us, many including myself are reminiscing of race days gone by. I am extremely grateful to have had the opportunities and support to make racing across most corners of the world happen. It’s given me a pretty broad appreciation for how the world works and more specifically how […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Central Australia, fat bike, norco bicycles, norco sasquatch, Queensland, simpson desert, Simpson Desert Bike Challenge, Stage Racing, XCM

May 15, 2020 By Mike Blewitt 1 Comment

My favourite event: Transalp

As we move into a year unlike no other, being able to travel the world and race your bike seems like such a luxury! I don’t think I ever took it for granted, but as each week passes I’m left thinking about what race I’d really like to do, or do again. I also think […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Blog, Diary, MarathonMTB, Mike Blewitt, mountain bike, Stage Race, Transalp

March 17, 2020 By Sam Fox 1 Comment

Sam Fox recaps XCO National Championships

Sam Fox MarathonMTB XCO

In Australia, The Mountain Bike Australia (MTBA) XCO National Championships is the race that brings out all the big names. 2020 was no exception, with previous winners returning to defend their titles in Elite Men and Women, under 23 Men and Women, and other big names like Cam Ivory (2018 XCO, XCM, XCC champ), Brendan […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Bike, biking, cross country, marathonmtb super light, MAxxis Aspen, Maxxis tyres, mountain bike, Racing, sam fox, shimano mtb, Shimano XTR, XCO

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

January 2, 2020 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Can I take my XC bike to Maydena Bike Park?

If you live in Australia you would have heard about the launch of Maydena Bike Park in early 2018. About 90 minutes north west of Hobart, Tasmania, the town of Maydena sits on the doorstep of the wild west of the island state. This is where the vast expanse of protected wilderness starts. This is […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Bike, MarathonMTB, maydena bike park, mountain bike, norco bicycles, outside, Tasmania

September 20, 2019 By Justin Morris Leave a Comment

Thoughts and Sensations of competing at a World Title

Close to 300 men and women will compete at the MTB marathon elite world championship this weekend here in Grachen, Switzerland. Some will be vying for the honour of spending the next 12months in the coveted rainbow jersey, a widely respected prize throughout the world of cycling. Others will be lining for the sheer experience […]

Filed Under: Diaries, MarathonMTB.com Tagged With: Australian MTB, Australian Team, Grachen, Inlovewithswitzerland, Justin Morris, norco revolver, Switzerland, UCI XCM Series, Valais, XCM, xcm world championships, XCM Worlds, XCMChamps

August 25, 2019 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Swiss Epic 2019 Stage 5

The final stage of the Swiss Epic, stage 5, took the race in full circle, back to Davos. Covering 64 kilometres and 2,350m of climbing, the stage promised no easy finale, with a number of challenging climbs. MarathonMTB.com’s day at the Swiss Epic With one day to go and over 6 minutes lead, Imogen and […]

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August 24, 2019 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Swiss Epic 2019 Stage 4

I know from experience that you can’t pack much more than 2,000m of climbing into 50km if you want to finish in the same place you start – so while today’s Swiss Epic stage looks mercifully short, it was bloody hard work, and that’s how it always stood out from the race route. Swiss Epic […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: epic series, lenzerheide, marathon mountain biking, mountain biking, Stage Racing, Swiss Epic, Switzerland, XCM

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

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