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Matt Page’s Ironbike Blog: Stage Five
A tough stage to precede the Queen stage of the race. Matt continues to hit his stage racing straps with another strong performance.
Sudety MTB Challenge: Stage 4
A hard day in a stage race doesn’t need to be in the Alps, a desert, or even be too long. 56km and the winner barely snuck under 3 hours.
Matt Page’s Ironbike Blog: Stage Four
Harsh conditions and the onset of fatigue threatened to bring Matt down. But his racing spirit kept him up, and took him to 9th on GC!
Sudety MTB Challenge: Stage 3
A day that is a shade under 60km, but not without challenges. Milka Trek cover the podium, Mike and Ant finish 6th in the Teams Category.
Matt Page’s Ironbike Blog: Stage Three
Stage 3 had the most climbing so far, but Matt Page has managed to climb up the GC ranking.
Sudety MTB Challenge: Stage 2
From Kraliky to Stronie Slaskie, on what many deem the hardest stage. There were many stage race refresher courses taken today.
Sudety Challenge: Stage One
Stage One was the long one, and Mike and Ant climbed the ladder. Stage Two is the hardest though.
Matt Page’s Ironbike blog: Stage Two
As a stage-race debutant Matt works his way through new territory on stage 2 of Ironbike. After breakfast fireworks (literally) and the longest stage of the race, he’s dancing with a top-10 position.
Matt Page’s Ironbike blog: Stage 1
On the opening stanza of this Italian epic, Matt deals with the drama of downdrafts as he looks to improve on his seventh place finish in the prologue.