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March 23, 2021 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Oliver and Burnett crowned Prospector champions

New Zealand has the terrain to host a variety of mountain bike races, and while The Pioneer is gone (for now?) The Prospector popped up in 2021 as a 3-day mountain bike stage race in the Central Otago region of New Zealand’s South Island. With a prologue on Friday followed by two stages, the race […]

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December 7, 2019 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

The Pioneer 2019 – Stage Five

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. And then it arrived. The final day of The Pioneer. After two shortened stages due to adverse […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: epic series, MarathonMTB, Maxxis, mountain bike, New Zealand, sam fox, Seb jayne, Shimano, Stage Race, the pioneer

December 5, 2019 By MarathonMTB Leave a Comment

The Pioneer 2019 – Stage Four

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. Today we had another shortened stage like yesterday, to the relief of many riders. After arriving […]

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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. […]

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December 3, 2019 By MarathonMTB Leave a Comment

The Pioneer 2019 – Stage Two

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. Stage Two of The Pioneer was the queen stage, covering 112KM and 2500m of climbing, it […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: MarathonMTB, Maxxis, mountain bike, New Zealand, sam fox, Sebastian Jayne, shimano mtb, Stage Race, the pioneer

December 2, 2019 By MarathonMTB Leave a Comment

The Pioneer 2019 – Stage One

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. Today was another early morning, 5:30AM for a 7:30AM start. With a very refreshing […]

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December 1, 2019 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

The Pioneer 2019 – the Prologue

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. Wow, what a start to The Pioneer 2019! I was a late call up […]

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November 29, 2019 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

MarathonMTB.com at The Pioneer in 2019

With the 4th edition of The Pioneer starting this weekend in Queenstown, New Zealand, one of the most recent team pairings could also be one of the most competitive! While originally the MarathonMTB.com Team would comprise founding rider Mike Blewitt and Sebastian Jayne, young Tasmanian Sam Fox will now be joining Sebastian for the 6-day […]

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October 23, 2019 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Big wigs to contest Whaka100

The 13th edition of Emerson’s Whaka100 Mountain Bike Marathon presented by CamelBak is taking place this weekend in Rotorua, New Zealand. With over 1400 people signed up for the race across all distances, it is shaping up to be the biggest one yet!  The packed schedule of events serves up something for everyone, including the Rotorua Isuzu […]

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November 30, 2018 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

The Pioneer Stage five – Final stage brings a few surprises

MarathonMTB Pioneer Epic Series

Tired legs roll out of Bannockburn This morning we got up before dawn and munched through breakfast in the dark. It’s always unbelievable to me that, given my usual appetite, when we get into the depths of a stage race I find myself completely without interest in food, so that eating is stripped of any […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: central otago, epic series, MarathonMTB, MTB, New Zealand, pioneer, queenstown, Stage Racing, XCM

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