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The route for the 2018 Sudety MTB Challenge has been revealed. The event team have been working tirelessly to combine three major changes for the race in 2018. Firstly they wanted to decrease the number of race towns that the race visited, but without compromising the quality of trails in each stage. Secondly the organisation […]
The final act of the Sudety MTB Challenge 2015 has been played. The longest stage of this race led the riders back to the starting point – Stronie Śląskie. Like each stage before – this one was also accompanied by beautiful weather. Racing kicked off in Duszniki Zdrój – a well-known Polish spa town. However […]
Stage 5 – Walim to Kudowa-Zdroj: 80 kilometres What happened? After a whole day of rain yesterday, a bit more overnight, and a cloudy, foggy morning, riders could have been forgiven for wishing that organisers would take pity on them and shorten the 80km Queen Stage of Sudety MTB Challenge 2014 just a little. Yesterday’s 44km […]
Stage 1 – Tour de Stronie Slaskie What happened? After yesterday’s short, 15 km prologue, the real Sudety MTB Challenge started today, with a 65 km course that included 2423 metres of climbing. Starting in the beautiful park in central Stronie Slaskie, the course quickly turned off the main road and onto a steep climb […]
Sudety Mountain Bike Challenge (tagline ‘no bullshit, no compromise’) starts with a prologue around Stronie Slaskie today. and Mike Blewitt and I will be racing it for Team Subaru-MarathonMTB.com in a mixed pair. Stronie Slaskie, in the picturesque Sudety mountains in Poland, is 16,000 kilometres from Sydney – so we thought it best to bring […]
In an interview with Sally Bigham who will be racing Transalp 2014 in a mixed pair, unassisted, Subaru-MarathonMTB.com racer Imogen Smith delves into the integrity of pushing and towing in mixed pairs racing, and reflects on her own experience at Transalp last year. When Sally Bigham announced on Facebook a couple of days ago that […]
