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April 16, 2022 By Sam Fox Leave a Comment

A return to international travel, and writing blogs

Last year while I travelled overseas, I wrote blogs for MarathonMTB. It was a great way for me to solidify the memories I made, and to reflect on the journey at the same time as sharing it with friends and family.I hadn’t been planning on doing the same again this year, until someone (other than […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: brazil, bridgelane, Europe, sam fox, Travel, World Cup

October 17, 2021 By Justin Morris Leave a Comment

King Island: An untapped cycling gem

Team rider Justin Morris recently took to the remote island of King Island with his CX bike to explore what the island had to offer,

Filed Under: Diaries, MarathonMTB.com Tagged With: Cycle tourism, Gravel, Norco Threshold, Tasmania, Travel, Victoria

July 1, 2021 By Sam Fox Leave a Comment

Aussies at Swiss Cup in Savognin

Following my first two races, I was keen to put a proper week of training in again and hopefully find some legs before the next race in Switzerland. The first order of business was buying a fan (the mechanical kind, not the people), to get a good night’s sleep in the heat, and a pillow […]

Filed Under: Diaries, MarathonMTB.com, Team Diary Tagged With: privateer, sam fox, Savognin, Swiss, Travel, XCO

June 27, 2021 By Sam Fox Leave a Comment

MarathonMTB return to Europe

After over a year since any of the MarathonMTB team were overseas, Sam finally managed to fight through the red tape and escape to a European summer, and his first World Cup season

Filed Under: Diaries, MarathonMTB.com, Team Diary Tagged With: Austria, Europe, sam fox, Travel, World Cup, XCO

February 9, 2021 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

The Redback brings racing back to Alice Springs

MarathonMTB Alice Springs The Redback

After a quiet year where few numbers where attached to handlebars, Rapid Ascent are have opened entries to the award-winning Redback MTB Stage Race, set to return to Alice Springs in the Northern Territory (NT) on Friday 20 to Monday 23 August 2021. The Redback has had a couple of variants and names over the […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Alice Springs, Bike, bike racing, MarathonMTB, northern territory, Rapid Ascent, Stage Race, the redback, Travel

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

May 25, 2020 By Mike Blewitt 1 Comment

An insider’s guide to WEMBO 24 hour racing

Racing a 24 hour mountain bike race in the solo category can be anything from a New Years resolution, a dare from a mate, a personal goal, or a professional accomplishment. But the challenge of riding your mountain bike isn’t diminished, not matter the reason for you to sign up to a solo 24 hour […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: 24 hour solo, 24 solo, armidale, Australia, Bike, Cory Wallace, kate penglase, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, new south wales, Travel, WEMBO

May 20, 2020 By Mike Blewitt 1 Comment

Dragon Trail MTB

Anyone can see that around Australia, the marathon scene is shrinking. Some of the classics keep fighting on, but the demand for single day 100km races is not what it used to be. And given the costs involved for a one day event it is understandable. Time off work, entry, accommodation, maybe airfares as well […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Bike, biking, dragon trail, dragon trail MTB, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, MTB, Stage Race, Tasmania, Travel

March 4, 2020 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Swiss Epic 2020 route revealed

The 2020 Swiss Epic entries have been open for a while, and while the stage towns have been made public, the final route has just been revealed. Unlike some mountain bike stage races, the Swiss Epic changes its route drastically each year. While the challenge of finishing the Swiss Epic will be the same year […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: biking, epic series, Graubuenden, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Swiss Epic, Swiss epic 2020, Travel

January 22, 2020 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Sizing up the Absa Cape Epic 2020

The Cape Epic is coming, and I am going to be there. The world’s most televised mountain bike event. The untamed, the big one, the Tour de France of mountain biking. Call it what you will, I’ve seen the routes, seen the GoPro vision, seen the helicopters, and I am smart enough to know that […]

Filed Under: Diaries Tagged With: cape epic, epic legend, epic series, Imogen Smith, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, shimano mtb, south africa, Stage Race, Swiss Epic, Travel

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