It had been over 6 hours on the bus since we had left Adelaide, the sun was setting and out the bus window was a picture I had not been expecting. The area surrounding the Mawson Trail, a trail extending 900km’s from Adelaide all the way through to Blinman, had seen a lot of [...]
Despite the bleak forcast from but one week ago, blue skys, sun and mid 20 temperatures have greeted us in Thredbo. Ordinarily I’d be outside, riding some of the many trails that litter the hillsides here, but having already been for a spin, registered and with 400km’s of riding to come, it’s time for [...]
*BANG*
25 mins into a 165km race and it is now I was seriously regretting not changing that chain I had meant to earlier in the week. The plan was so simple, hang off the lead bunches till the going got hilly, then back off into something more manageable for the rest of the race, [...]
I think they forgot to convert inches to centimeters or something. 1400m’s would have been close to the mark, if we just doubled back after 2nd checkpoint. 40% of my time was spent pushing up walls of mud in the 25km’s between CP #2 and #3. I fell over at least [...]
I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do for the polaris this year, I either wanted to go hard and try for a top 10, or have a cruisy weekend heading out for a bit of a blast around the paddock. In some ways it didn’t matter as I had psyched myself up for [...]