Despite Huw Kingstons Highland Fling, held in NSW, being the unofficial National Marathon Champs, the Convict 100, really always feels like the NSW Marathon champs to me. If you race an MTB in the state, you have to be there. It is one of those dates in your calendar that gets marked in first. In the […]
Quebrantahuesos MTB – Stu’s adventures continue
Subaru-MarathonMTB.com racer Stu Spies made the journey out to the second European round of the 2013 UCI marathon series, the Quebrantahuesos MTB, in northern Spain. Here’s how the adventure unfolded. Lets start with few handy race tips, you must know many but here are some refreshers: Race tip #4001: Pay the extra for legroom on […]
Justin Morris’ Blog: Smiles on Faces – Win Races
Having just landed in the USA for the 2013 racing season, it feels as though the next chapter of my 2013 journey has begun. Since my last post from Milan in January, a fantastic, joy filled time has been had, predominantly in Australia. Due to some delays with the processing of my US visa I […]
More tales from South Africa
When you think of MTB in South Africa you usually think about the Cape Epic, but that’s far from the only big stage race that’s run in that part of the world. This year I’ll be reporting for MarathonMTB.com from the Old Mutual JoBerg2c MTB stage race. The race is 910km over 9 days from […]
#fullpro – Be Careful What You Wish For
How many times have you been at the coffee shop, and you overhear someone saying ‘wow dude – that’s so pro’. Or someone else say “yeah – I picked up some sponsors, I’m kinda pro now”. #fullpro – it’s the tag to use on Twitter (so I am told by my Twitter advisors). There was […]
Keep calm, carry on! Roc Laissagais 2013
There’s nothing like a little disaster to get the blood pumping! Like madly trying to recover an unshipped chain just as the group you were clinging to drops the hammer I’m in scramble mode. OOOOOOH its race time! As you may be aware my unofficial DS is Will Hayter. Will has most recently decided 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 […]
Stu Spies’ Blog: Tell me about your commute
Do you spend way too much time getting to a place you loathe, to deal with people you tolerate for a fee that is adequate? I do. Well I do and I don’t. I feel my chosen place of work affords me three very, very good things. One, money. Like it or loathe it, for […]
Old dog, new tricks?
It has often struck me as odd that for a sport that is as technical as mountain biking, a lot of us never get any instruction in how to do it. We learn from our mistakes, we make it up as we go along, we pick up snippets from mates and we maybe see the […]
The season’s upon us!
How is it that the period from November to March can at the same time drag so slowly, yet whistle by so fast? Once racing has finished in October-ish, and you’ve had a break to recover from racing week in week out for six months, you then start off again on winter training. And at […]