For this past weekend, I decided to book in a double header with an XCO race on Saturday and the Saarschleifen Half Marathon on Sunday. The XCO was my main focus but with the Vaude Trans Schwarzwald stage race fast approaching, I wanted to see how my body would react to hard racing days back […]
Training in the Tropics – Bump Track and RRR route
Related Event: RRR Mountain Bike Race
Growing up in a southern state, I never learnt much about the history of Tropical North Queensland. Well not beyond the basics. So that means that each time I visit – I learn something new. 2011 and during my first Crocodile Trophy, it was a real eye opener to the life and times on the […]
Training in the Tropics – Smithfield
Smithfield sits about 20km north of the CBD of Cairns, right at the bottom of the road up to Kuranda. It’s just inland from the beautiful Trinity Beach, and also home to James Cook University. Smithfield is one part of Tropical North Queensland that the infamous Mud Cows called home. Wait – the Mud Cows? […]
Training in Tropical North Queensland
With the first round of the 2016 XCO World Cup landing in Cairns on the 24th April, a plan was hatched earlier this year to head up to Tropical North Queensland to support our XCO racer, Sebastian Jayne, on race day and then get a few good days of training in the legs too. Taking a […]
Australian National XCO Championships 2016
All photos by Robert Conroy Brewing for three years, the 2016 Bright National Championship XCO course, by all accounts, had been aged to perfection. Flowing singletrack gave way to technical rock rolls that dropped riders into collapsed mine networks and spat them out onto tough steep climbs with rewarding berms tall enough to swallow a […]
Team dynamics in Toowoomba
On the first weekend of March, the final round of the Subaru MTBA National Series was run in Toowoomba, about an hour and a half inland of Brisbane, in Queensland. With four riders spread over 3 states on the Subaru-MarathonMTB.COM Team for 2016, it’s pretty rare that paths cross many times through the year, given […]
Short work on the short track at Toowoomba
The short track (XCC) fell final day of cross-country racing at the Subaru MTBA National Round in Toowoomba this weekend. While not as popular as XCO, the shorter discipline is high on action – as well as burning muscles and lungs after the previous days hard efforts. Arriving in time to just catch B grade men, […]
Thredbo XCO – The two hour tour
After missing the Pemberton rounds to stay at home and tend to my vegetable garden, I was eager to start smashing it at XCO pace again. The Thredbo course was awesome and a whole lot better than the previous editions. With the Dirt Art team at the helm of the development, the new singletrack had […]
The Race Machine – Mt Stromlo
Hugo’s standing in the clock tower with Isabelle, looking over the Eiffel tower. “I’d imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn’t be an […]
Subaru MTBA National Series: Mt Taylor
The 2015 MTBA National Cross Country Series kicked off on the dusty single trails of Mt Taylor this past weekend. Mt Taylor sits inland from Lakes Entrance and, as a new location for the National Series, it provided some exciting racing for the first stop of the 2015/16 season. The course was a simple enough […]