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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

April 5, 2021 By Sam Fox Leave a Comment

Flat tyres and excitement on stage 3 of Easter in the Alice

Following stage two’s emotional roller coaster of a blown shock and yo-yo-ing between Henry and I, I was ready for a relaxed stage, hoping to follow Henry around and enjoy the scenery for the final stage. Unfortunately, Alice had something else in mind: teaching me a lesson about double checking schedules the night before. A […]

Filed Under: MarathonMTB.com, Reports, Team Diary Tagged With: easter, easter in the alice, northern territory, Ride MEchanic, sam fox, Stage Race

April 4, 2021 By Sam Fox Leave a Comment

Easter eggs and rocks on day 2 of Easter in the Alice

Another 30minutes of sleep was welcome after yesterday’s blistering race. So at 6AM I was awake and ready to go, today’s race began at the old Telegraph Station, which was the first European settlement in Alice Springs in 1871! It connected Alice Springs with Adelaide and Brisbane via over-land telegram, pretty crucial to avoid the […]

Filed Under: MarathonMTB.com, Reports, Team Diary Tagged With: Alice Springs, easter, easter in the alice, MTB stage race, northern territory, sam fox, Stage Race

April 3, 2021 By Sam Fox Leave a Comment

A different Easter, in the Alice

Having never raced in the Northern Territory before, when the Easter in the Alice crew asked if I wanted to race, I jumped at the opportunity!For the international readers, Alice Springs is in the heart of Australia, and is surrounded by desert. With temperatures in excess of 40 degrees celsius and minimums frequently dipping below […]

Filed Under: MarathonMTB.com, Reports, Team Diary Tagged With: Desert racing, easter in the alice, northern territory, sam fox, Stage Racing

April 25, 2017 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

The AMB100 – a race that has come of age

AMB100 marathonMTB mountain bike Mt Stromlo. Photo: Robert Conroy

Rocky Trail Entertainment have a vast array of events, and play a key role in others. Their Shimano MTB GP Series has helped plenty of riders get the taste for competitive events, and are a proving ground for endurance riders around New South Wales and the ACT. But their lap-based marathon race at Mt Stromlo, […]

Filed Under: Reports, Team Diary Tagged With: AMB100, Canberra, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Mt Stromlo, MTB, XCM

September 30, 2015 By Sebastian Jayne Leave a Comment

The Off-season

The off-season can be paradoxical at times. One minute you’re glad to have some time off the bike to pursue other activities, like eating chocolate cake, and the next all you want to do is get back on the bike! After a long season skipping along to the, at times, monotonous beat of wake up […]

Filed Under: Diaries, Team Diary Tagged With: MTB, off season, Subaru, Training

September 20, 2015 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Perskindol Swiss Epic – the final push to Zermatt

Related Event: Perskindol Swiss Epic

While the Grand Tours might be lucky enough to have final stages as processions, in the world of mountain bike stage racing, there’s often quite a lot of racing left to do, and positions to decide. The 2015 Perskindol Swiss Epic was no exception, and across the Epic and the Flow race, many categories were […]

Filed Under: Diaries, Team Diary Tagged With: Perskindol, Stage Race, Swiss Epic, Switzerland, Valais

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