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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

September 4, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Livigno Training Camp: Day Seven

MarathonMTB Livigno Diary Training

What the hell just happened? How did an 8 day stay in Livigno just about come to an end? It seems like so recently that we arrived in Livigno, anticipating epic rides, amazing food, crazy Italians, thin air and mountain scenery. For the most part – Livigno delivered. While we didn’t have seven days of […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Altitude Training, Bike, biking, Livigno, Mike Blewitt, mountain bike, MTB, outside, training camp

September 3, 2018 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Livigno Training Camp: Day Six

MarathonMTB Livigno Diary Training

The rain, which Accuweather tauntingly promised us would clear up today, stuck around so resolutely that by 9am it was clear to me that I was going to need something special. I marched Mike up the road, in the freezing drizzle, to a pasticceria and forced him to order me a filled croissant, then, when […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Altitude, cold, illness, Imogen Smith, joyofmtb, Livigno, MarathonMTB, mountain biking, MTB, Mud, Training, wet, XCM

September 2, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Livigno Training Camp: Day Five

MarathonMTB Livigno Diary Training

Sitting here on an early Saturday evening, I just realised this is the longest I have spent in Livigno at one time. While in 2013 I came and visited for about 4 nights, headed off to race Dolomiti Superbike, then came back again for another four or five nights, this would be the longest consecutive […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Altitude Training, biking, Livigno, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, outside, Singletrack, training camp

September 1, 2018 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Livigno Training Camp: Day Four

MarathonMTB Livigno Diary Training

As Mike and I have been watching the weather forecast like the vital signs of a dying man, we knew today would be a great day to have off. But imagine my disappointment when, after the jubilant excesses of yesterday’s climb to the top of Livigno’s mountains, I woke up again with a painfully sore, […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Altitude, Livigno, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, MTB, rain, Training, Weather, wet, XCM

August 31, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Livigno Training Camp: Day Three

MarathonMTB Livigno Diary Training

It’s out third full day up in Livigno, and after Imogen and I went our different ways yesterday, we regrouped for one of the other highly popular activities in Livigno – shopping! It wasn’t a mega spending spree, but we did both buy some headbands, so we could feel the part in the high mountains. […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Altitude Training, biking, carosello 3000, flow trails, Livigno, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Singletrack, training camp

August 30, 2018 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Livigno Training Camp: Day Two

MarathonMTB Livigno Diary Training

Mike and I were always going to go our separate ways in Livigno. For Mike, this is a special place overlaid with memories of gypsyish Euro-tripping bikefests of day-long, epic rides over high passes and into wild valleys, all of which he wants to relive. For me, this is the last chance to get in […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: alititude, Livigno, mountain bike, mountains, Trails, Training, training camp, XCM

August 29, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Livigno Training Camp: Day One

MarathonMTB Livigno Diary Training

Livigno is many things. It is a duty free shopping hub, an alpine town that is popular for snow sports, a farming village that has had rapid change – and an ever-growing base for altitude training. From runners, cross-country skiers, road cyclists, mountain bikers and more, Livigno offers about 1800m base elevation, with quiet trails, […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Altitude Training, biking, Livigno, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Singletrack, Training, training camp

June 28, 2017 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Alta Valtellina Bike Marathon returns

Bormio MTB Transalp

How do deep blue lakes, historic sites and the impressive panorama of huge mountains such as the Ortler-Cevedale sound? These things are almost as important as the actual mountain biking itself when the Alta Valtellina Bike Marathon is on the agenda. On Saturday, July 29, the route will take athletes to an altitude of 2,350 metres, on […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: alta valtellina, Bike, Bormio, Italy, Livigno, marathon, MarathonMTB, mountain bike

February 10, 2016 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Transalp rides the roof in Bormio

Related Event: Craft BIKE Transalp
Bormio MTB Transalp

It only takes one summer in the European Alps to realise what a fantasy it is to traverse the alps by bike. It is a need that drives thousands of ambitious cyclists onto the trails to cross Europe’s highest mountains. The BIKE Transalp leads mountain bikers through the Alps from July 17th to 23rd; racing for seven days and […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bormio, Livigno, Transalp

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