The Omnicane Southern Tropical Challenge is now one day away from kicking off in Mauritius. With that has come the chance to do some exploring, while doing a few days of acclimatisation. And that acclimatisation is pretty necessary, having left behind rain and 5 degrees in London, to arrive to 30 degrees, (mostly) sunshine and fairly […]

In 2011 I googled MTB races in NSW and it came up with the Highland Fling. I convinced Ray to come and race with me not knowing how popular this event was. We both raced the half marathon and that was our first experience with MTB races in Australia, we absolutely loved it, there is […]

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 […]

This blog has been provided by Nienke Oostra, who qualified for the Xterra World Championships, and made sure she prepared well to have the race of her life. What I love the most about the Xterra World Championships, is that it is an elite event, qualifying is by placing top 3 in your age group […]

Justin Morris recently took time away from his Team Type 1-Sanfoi road team to race the Crocodile Trophy with Subaru-MarathonMTB.com, hoping to capitalise on his experience from 2011. Sunny, Sweet, Sensational Sydney!!! It has been so great to be back in my hometown since mid July and my last blog post. Since then my life […]

This race report has been provided by another British cyclist who was chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2012 UCI Marathon MTB World Championships. Ben Thomas had been competing in International level Marathons all year in order to qualify. With a string of great results, he was selected and made it to Ornans. Its […]

Nienke Oostra is a Sydney based veterinarian, who has qualified for the Xterra World Championships. With some great coaching help, and hard training, she is about to become the ‘bike racing triathlete’ that her coach told her she could be. Xterra is an offroad triathlon consisting of a 1500m swim, 30km challenging mtbike and a […]

Driving home on the highway and listening to the fabulous Amy McDonalds’ “Don’t tell it’s over…” keeps me recalling the fondest moments of the ’12 race season. Sentiments are coming up and let me wish for more. Frankly, though, what should I wish for more? The sheer abundance of gifts I have experienced makes me […]

Prior to leaving England for the World Championships in Ornans France I told various people that I wanted it to rain and for the race to be muddy. My thought process went something like: – we just did a really muddy ride in Hopton Woods, it was fun and I felt fast, – if it […]

It’s been 3 days since the race and I barely have enough energy to stay in front of the computer for more than a few minutes at a time. An epic 5.5 hour race in the mud, 24 hour travel day, and stomach virus take a pretty big toll on the body. In a lot […]