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July 8, 2020 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Why it’s time to enter the next bike race.

The last bike race I did was the Arabian Epic Series Jordan Stage Race. I flew in and flew out, nursing a few niggles from a silly crash before leaving, which made it all a little uncomfortable on long haul flights! It was probably in the following weeks that I truly realised what an amazing […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Bike, biking, covid 19, MarathonMTB, mountain bike stage race, mountain biking, MTB, Travel

December 4, 2019 By MarathonMTB Leave a Comment

The Pioneer 2019 – Stage Three

For the 2019 edition of The Pioneer, Sam Fox has teamed up with Sebastian Jayne to race as the MarathonMTB.com Team. Sam will be reporting each day. He’s also the youngest rider in the race at just 19 years of age. After evading the rain on the previous stage we were hopeful to do the same again. […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Bike, epic series, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, mountain biking, New Zealand, sam fox, Stage Race, the pioneer

August 24, 2019 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Swiss Epic 2019 Stage 4

I know from experience that you can’t pack much more than 2,000m of climbing into 50km if you want to finish in the same place you start – so while today’s Swiss Epic stage looks mercifully short, it was bloody hard work, and that’s how it always stood out from the race route. Swiss Epic […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: epic series, lenzerheide, marathon mountain biking, mountain biking, Stage Racing, Swiss Epic, Switzerland, XCM

November 29, 2018 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

The Pioneer Stage 4 – Mt Difficulty and other difficult climbs

MarathonMTB Pioneer NZ Photo: Tim Bardsley-Smith

Click. Beep. Click. Beep. Click. Beep. Ok I’m definitely in my smallest gear, but how is that possible? I’ll just check again. Beep. Yep. Shit. Getting going again Today Mike and I started Stage four of The Pioneer with the goal of making it to the first feed zone, then reassessing things after our nightmare […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: bannockburn, central otago, Marathon mtb, mountain biking, MTB, pioneer, Stage Racing, XCM

November 27, 2018 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Pioneer hits the Alex trails for the Queen Stage

Imogen Smith MarathonMTB Pioneer NZ

Why is it that we only crash when things are great? All those awful, cold, wet grovels where you’d pay good money for a legitimate Out, nothing. Nothing goes wrong. Except maybe a flat tyre, but that’s fixable. Now when you’re ripping through trails, performing well, loving it – that’s when life deals you a […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: central otago, crashing, injury, MarathonMTB, mountain biking, pioneer, Stage Racing, XCM

November 26, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Queenstown rocks The Pioneer’s first stage

Related Event: The Pioneer
MarathonMTB The Pioneer NZ Stage Race

Sure, we all raced a prologue yesterday. We did 20km, got a bit muddy and had some fun. And while it gave us our start position, and settled some nerves, it was but a drop in the ocean for what lay ahead. All that would start this morning. My pet hate at any stage race […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: ambmag, Bike, cape epic, epic series, mountain bike, mountain biking, New Zealand, pioneer, pioneer NZ, Stage Race, the pioneer

September 21, 2018 By Justin Morris Leave a Comment

Equipment choices for MTB stage races

After finishing the recent Tour de Timor I have been giving my bike a post stage race overhaul. Going through my bike and all my personal equipment after many of these ‘adventure style’ stage races over the years has given me a deeper insight into appropriate equipment selection than I had before. By ‘adventure style’ […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: camelbak, cycling, Justin Morris, MarathonMTB, mountain biking, MTB stage racing, Stage Race, stage races, Stage Racing, Tour de Timor, Training, XTR Di2

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

August 20, 2018 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Finding balance – Stage 4 of the Rothaus Bike Giro

Related Event: Rothaus Bike Giro Hochschwarzwald
Imogen Smith Rothaus Bike Giro MarathonMTB

Back in start block D this morning at the final stage of the Rothaus Bike Giro I settled on a different strategy from the day before. Yesterday I’d gone out hard on a secret mission to escape from start block D, and that hadn’t worked out at all. Today I was going to embrace it […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: black forest, Europe, hochschwarzwald, MarathonMTB, mountain biking, MTB, rothaus bike giro, Stage Racing

August 12, 2018 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Reef to Reef: The fourth and final stage

MarathonMTB Reef to Reef

And just like that, it’s over! Reef to Reef today finished with a sweet 50-kilometre stage that took in some icons of tropical north Queensland riding: Wetherby Station, The Bump Track, and Port Douglas’s Four Mile Beach. Logistically, this was a tricky one to manage: everyone corralled in the dark at 6am to load bikes […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: Ironman, MarathonMTB, mountain biking, MTB, reef to reef, Stage Racing, XCM

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