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August 1, 2014 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Sudety MTB Challenge 2014: Stage 4, Wallowing in mud to Warim

Stage 4 Bardo to Walim, 44.2 kilometres What happened? With plenty of rain from the award ceremony onwards, Stage 4 would be wet. And it wasn’t a case of the water just coming up from the ground, it was falling from the sky as well. This race has a jovial vibe, people are having fun. […]

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July 31, 2014 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Sudety MTB Challenge 2014 Stage 3 – Battling the border to Bardo

Stage 3 Stronie Slaskie to Bardo, 67 kilometres What happened? The race left Stronie Slaskie in beautiful weather and after a ‘neutral’ lap of this beautiful town, headed up, and up, and up, on a 13 km gravel climb, and into border country. The race then turned technical, inching through muddy singletrack made of roots […]

Filed Under: Diaries, Team Diary Tagged With: MTB, Poland, Stage Race

July 30, 2014 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Sudety MTB Challenge 2014 Stage 2: Vuelta a Stronie Slaskie

Stage 2: Vuelta a Stronie Slaskie: What happened? After what felt like a brutal stage yesterday on Stage 1, today was a little friendlier, earning a ‘3’ for difficulty rather than the ‘4’ of yesterday (from a scale of 1-6). What this meant was that the climbs were a little less steep, the descents a […]

Filed Under: Diaries, Team Diary Tagged With: MTB, Poland, Stage Race, Sudety

July 29, 2014 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Sudety MTB Challenge 2014 Stage 1 – Touring Stronie Slaskie

Stage 1 – Tour de Stronie Slaskie What happened? After yesterday’s short, 15 km prologue, the real Sudety MTB Challenge started today, with a 65 km course that included 2423 metres of climbing. Starting in the beautiful park in central Stronie Slaskie, the course quickly turned off the main road and onto a steep climb […]

Filed Under: Diaries, Team Diary Tagged With: Marathon Racing, MTB, nobullshit, nocompromise, Stage Racing, Stronie Slaskie, Sudety Mountain Bike Challenge

July 28, 2014 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Sudety MTB Challenge: Prologue and ‘Pure MTB’

The Sudety MTB Challenge has begun, and for a race that promises to be ‘Pure MTB’ and an “Unusual event” plus being “an above average race” I’m surprised more people don’t know about it. Today the Prologue began in the afternoon, one that was forecast to be plagued with rain but in reality just had an […]

Filed Under: Diaries, Team Diary Tagged With: MTB, Stage Race, Sudety

July 27, 2014 By Naomi Hansen Leave a Comment

Stage 7 Transalp 2014: 62.73km and 2325hm

Stage 7 Transalp 2014.. happily in Riva. Photo by Stu Spies

The final day of a multiday race such as Transalp is never as easy as the guidebook depicts and our stage 7 was equally as tough as any of the 6 stages we had completed prior. On paper the stage looked simple… 62.7km with a mere 2300hm from Trento to Riva Del Garda… an uphill […]

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July 26, 2014 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Kaufmann and Kass defend lead at Transalp

Markus Kaufmann and Jochen Käß  have won the sixth stage from Kaltern to Trento at the Craft Bike Transalp. Centurion Vaude 1 completed the 98.25 km and 2,894 metres of climbing in 4:07:37.4 extending their lead over third ranked team mates Daniel Geismayr  and Hannes Genze  (4:10:37.4) in the overall ranking to 10:44 minutes. Second place went to Alban Lakata and […]

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July 25, 2014 By Stu Spies Leave a Comment

Transalp Stage 5 – Sarntal to Kaltern (67km – 2785hm)

  Today was, in a nutshell, BRUTAL! Due to our unfortunate Day 2 (Naomi’s muddy eyeball) we start each day in the mad house that is ‘Pen B’. Why is it a madhouse? Well simply put you have a serious mix of fitness capability, competitiveness and technical skill. This all culminates in a furious attack […]

Filed Under: Diaries, Team Diary Tagged With: Marathon mountainbiking, Stage 5, Stage Racing, Transalp

July 24, 2014 By Naomi Hansen Leave a Comment

Transalp Stage 4: Naturns to Sarntal (73km and 2645hm)

Completion of stage 4 Transalp 2014 in Sarntal. Photo by Naomi Hansen

The most important thing to remember about a race like Transalp is that there is NEVER an easy day.. today was a mere 73km on paper (very sociable compared to yesterdays 100km and the preceding days of 87km and 97km) but the fine print includes a 30km climb from around 32km to 62km taking us […]

Filed Under: Diaries, Team Diary Tagged With: MTB, Stage Race, Transalp

July 23, 2014 By Naomi Hansen Leave a Comment

Transalp 2014 stage 3 “The Queen Stage”

Broken bodies in Naturns following the Queen stage. Photo by Naomi Hansen

Firstly, I will have to up-speed on the events of stage 2 (yesterdays stage from Imst to Nauders) Stu and I were otherwise occupied and failed to log a full report.   Stage 2 started in Imst, in the rain and the rain continued for the entire stage… Stu and I rode well (to clarify […]

Filed Under: Diaries, Team Diary Tagged With: MTB, Stage Race, Transalp

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