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September 27, 2022 By MarathonMTB Leave a Comment

My year of amateur mistakes (that I hope I’ll never repeat)

Words: Amy Henchoz Half measures aren’t so much a thing in my book. Either it’s fun and relaxed, or I’m all in. Back when I was still fairly new on a bike (I first rode a trail centre in 2019) people used to ask me if I raced, I’d laugh and say that was for […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: amateur, Bike, haderslev, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, XCM, XCM Champs

March 11, 2020 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Australian XCM Championships to Dwellingup, Western Australia for 2020

After the 2019 Cross-Country Marathon (XCM) Australian National Championships were postponed and moved from Townsville to Redlands and the Bayview Blast, many questions were left hanging over the 2020 venue and date. While The RATS MTB Club did a fantastic job hosting the Championships at Redlands, they did so without too much notice and there […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Dwellingup, dwellinup100, mountain bike, MTBA, Western Australia, XCM Champs

September 28, 2019 By Justin Morris Leave a Comment

XCM World Champs- Back of the Pack race report

Team rider Justin Morris whom also lives with Type 1 diabetes reports on racing the UCI XCM World Championship from the perspective of last place on the starting grid.

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Grachen, Justin Morris, Maddog, MarathonMTB, MTBA, Sebastian Jayne, St Niklaus, Switzerland, UCI, XCM, XCM Champs, XCM Worlds

June 10, 2019 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Johnston and Harris win 2019 Australian XCM titles

On a glorious winter’s day in Brisbane, Brendan Johnston won his 4th cross-country marathon (XCM) title and Holly Harris won her first. After the 2019 National Championships were moved from Townsville to Redland Bay, there was a chance that the fields of the elite marathons would be a little deeper than otherwise. And that rang […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: bayview blast, Bike, Brendan Johnston, holly harris, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, MTBA, XCM, XCM Champs

September 1, 2018 By MarathonMTB Leave a Comment

Have you met Ben May?

Ben May MarathonMTB XCM World Championships

Words: Andrew Handyside. Photos: Melissa May The XCM World Championships are nearly upon us and, as any responsible national governing body would do, MTBA have named their athletes who will pull on the green and gold to represent us against the finest the world has to offer. As you know, kitting up for the lads […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Ben May, biking, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, outside, World Championships, XCM Champs

May 2, 2018 By Justin Morris Leave a Comment

The Australian XCM championship – Toil rewarded!

Related Event: Australian XCM ChampionshipsAustralian XCM Championships - Townsville MTB Festival
XCM Championships MarathonMTB Justin

The recent Australian XCM Championship was my first ever National Championship in this discipline of cycling. Despite having raced numerous elite national and state titles in road racing and XCO racing I was perhaps more intimidated by the challenge ahead of me at the XCM nationals. Being amongst only 2 riders who opted to take […]

Filed Under: Reports Tagged With: Australian XCM Championships, Brendan Johnston, Cameron Ivory, national xcm, townsville, XCM, XCM Champs

April 26, 2018 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

Australian XCM National Champs course check

MarathonMTB Townsville XCM Champs Course check

MarathonMTB.com flew into Townsville early this year to get the low-down on the new course at Mt Douglas MTB park. National Champs had been planned to take place at the Pallarenda trails closer to town, but A LOT of summer rain left the course in need of considerable maintenance, so the Rockwheelers MTB club made […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: biking, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, MTBA, townsville, XCM, XCM Champs

September 3, 2017 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

3Epic – 2018 Marathon MTB World Championships preview

3Epic XCM World Championships mountain bike marathonmtb

In 2018 the World Cross-country Mountain Bike Marathon Championships head back to Italy, to a mountainous course in the Dolomites – running alongside the 3Epic event. The 2017 edition has proven to be an excellent preview for the organisers, racers and fans. Italian Samuele Porro (Team Trek Selle San Marco) just won the 2017 edition of the […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 3epic, Bike, dolomities, Hynek, Kollman, Lüthi, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Porro, UCI, World Championships, XCM Champs

March 29, 2017 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Course preview: Australian XCM Championships in Townsville

Related Event: Australian XCM Championships
Subaru mountain bike Mike Blewitt

Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to visit Townsville to take a look at the proposed course for the 2017 and 2018 Mountain Bike Cross-Country Marathon (XCM) Championship, which is to be held on the last weekend of April this year in conjunction with the Townsville Mtb Festival. When the venue was announced, I […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Australian XCM Championships, mountain bike, MTB, MTBA, townsville, XCM, XCM Champs

May 11, 2016 By Imogen Smith Leave a Comment

XCM Champs: What does it cost to wear green and gold?

LEITA Easter in the Alice XCM MTBA (c) Tim Bardsley-Smith

Marathon mountain biking isn’t a glamorous sport. In the past year I’ve got nude in a rainy paddock surrounded by blokes because there was nowhere else to get changed, slept in the boot of a car, smuggled a $7.50 toaster into a hotel room to avoid having to pay for breakfast, and washed filthy kit […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Australia, laissac, Marathon Championships, MTBA, UCI, XCM Champs

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