In Easter April 2014, two of our Subaru-MarathonMTB.com racers visited Alice Springs for the Easter in the Alice MTB Stage Race. More than that, Mike and Imogen made a holiday out of it. Hot air ballooning, camel rides, desert trips, quad bikes – there was lots to do in the red centre. Visiting the Northern […]
Racing Australia’s Red Heart – ICME stage 4 and the race to recover
This morning we raced an individual mountain bike time trial over 22 kilometres, through sandy, washed-out four-wheel-drive track and singletrack. The course was a little less curvy and a little flatter than I’d hoped, but I managed to put myself through enough pain to win by a few seconds, which made me very, very happy. […]
Riding Australia’s Red Heart – ICME Stage 1
Bearing in mind that a lot of MarathonMTB.com readers are from all around the world, and that many Australians don’t know where Alice Springs is anyway, I thought I’d start this series of blogs about Alice Spring’s biggest MTB event with this fascinating geography primer. Skip ahead a few paragraphs if you just want the […]
Racers in Alice Springs set for ICME MTB Stage Race
There are a few ways you might spot that there are mountain bikers in town for a stage race. Bananas sell out at the supermarket. There’s a lot of window shopping at the local Thai restaurants. And there are lots more people riding around with shopping bags… Alice Springs is being taken over by mountain bikers […]
Alice Springs Essentials – Tips for racing in Australia’s Red Centre
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I’ve been to Alice Springs, in Australia’s red desert heart, to race five times now, I love it so much it’s never hard to justify going back Stage racing out in the Alice Springs desert brings some special challenges with it, so as I’m writing reviews of the trails and getting ready to deliver race reports, […]