With a wet week leading up to the race, Sunday 15th of June saw riders racing in the sunshine in Ballyhoura, Ireland, for the 2014 European XCM Championships. Despite a busy weekend of racing, with the Alpentour also taking place in Austria, a star studded field was in Ireland for much of the preceeding week […]
Cherise Stander hoping to harness Burry’s legacy
Following a tough start to the 2014 season, the iconic Cascades MTB Park and the legend of her late husband Burry could be the tonic that Cherise Stander needs as she heads into her maiden UCI MTB Marathon World Championships in Pietermaritzburg on 29 June. The Team RECM rider has had a tough start to […]
XCM Worlds course launched
The buzz ahead of the 2014 UCI MTB Marathon World Championships continues to build in KwaZulu-Natal’s capital as course designer Nick Floros and his team make the final tweaks to the widely anticipated route for of the global showcase. Floros and his team are hard at work as they look to wrap things up ahead […]
Wallace and Fay win 10th Convict 100 – and Real Insurance XCM Series
Related Event: XCM Series: Convict 100
Australia has a handful of iconic marathon races – races that have a story, an impressive list of victors, and offer something that everyone enjoys – from elite to back marker. The Convict 100 is one of these, and on Saturday 3rd May, 2014, it celebrated it’s 10th anniversary. The Convict 100 has run on […]
Convict 100 to decide Real Insurance XCM Series
Related Event: XCM Series: Convict 100
With the Convict 100, the final round of the 2014 Real Insurance XCM Series looming, we can cast our eyes over the current standings of the men’s and women’s elite, to ponder what the outcomes may be. The series has 5 rounds, and your best 3 results count. The National Championships had a bonus 10% […]
Giant Odyssey 100km 2014
The Giant Odyssey has matured to become a pinnacle annual event for many elite marathon mountain bike riders, well attended by both national and international riders. In the last two years, the Rapid Ascent team have honed the 100km course, modifying it into a logistically more appropriate ‘clover leaf’ circuit with riders starting, transitioning and finishing […]
Race Report: Giant Shorty 50km
The Giant Odyssey is known as one of the toughest marathon mountain bike races in Australia. With a reputation like that, it’s no surprise that many participants decided to enter the easier version of the race and take on the 50 km Shorty. The course of the Shorty is very different from the Odyssey but […]
Real Insurance XCM Round 4: English and Fay win Tablelands Classic
About a year after the 2013 Australian Marathon Championships visited the Atherton Tablelands, the Real Insurance XCM Series ventured north for it’s 4th Round. Falling on ANZAC Day, and prior to the main events of the Cairns World Cup, no one was certain who would be attending. A home World Cup is a big deal […]
Atherton Tablelands set for ANZAC Day Marathon
The action from the Real Insurance XCM Series continues this weekend as competitors head to Atherton in North Queensland for the fourth round of the five race series. The Tablelands Classic and will be headlined by women’s series leader and XCM national champion Melissa Anset (VIC), as well as four time world 24 hour mountain […]
Seb’s Diary: The Wombat 50km
Sorry about the delayed race report! Things have been a bit hectic lately, with an impending European racing trip and Cairns world cup within the next few weeks. Two weekends ago I set up a double race weekend with a Melbourne Northern Combine road race on the Saturday and the wombat 50km mountain bike race […]