It seemed appropriate to finish this season off with a marathon, the Dünsberg Marathon. Okay it was only 54km but the field was strong as there was no full marathon distance race this year. This meant that the pace would be really high from the start. It was also our last camping weekend...
Wednesday 28 September 2016 at Hungey Hill Aldershot Capt Tiny Simmonds and WO1 Stu Crighton organised the 2016 Inter Service and Army MTB XC Championship as well as the final round of the MTB XC Race Series. The course was approx 4.5km in length and was dominated by a tough 30% climb which was a...
[caption id="attachment_16282" align="aligncenter" width="720"] Lucy on her first race, aged 14[/caption] Lucy Allan is one of TORQ MTB teams latest recurit, having moved from her family sponsored mtb team. we caught up with her for a short Q&A session in between training, racing and...
I’ll begin with a little context. Until just over a week ago, I thought the last race of my season was going to be the UCI MTB World Cup in Andorra. A snapped chain on Lap 4 in 66th position meant I’d been forced to abandon, which was incredibly frustrating. After a bit of a rest once...
Not such fresh news as normal, here is the official press release from CST. Talented Dutch U23 rider David Nordemann signs for 2 years! We are happy and proud to announce young talented Dutch rider David Nordemann (U23), will ride the next 2 years for our Team. His current Team, the Dutch...
Three Counties MTB Marathon – 13/11/16 Buxton/North Derbyshire A challenging mountain biking marathon event starting & finishing in Buxton traversing the three counties of Derbyshire, Staffordshire & Cheshire with a choice of two courses: a 61km long route with 1500m of climbing or a...
Nigel Morris, David Kelly and the Manx Mountain Bike Club are extremely pleased to announce that the Manx 100 will be the British Cycling United Kingdom Marathon Championship for 2017. The event will be run over the 100km Manx 100 course, with around 3500m of climbing. [caption...
Feeling the pressure as a coach ? maybe just a little after a great result with Steve Day taking the overall win in 2015 the pressure was on for him to regain his title (please remember he's on a single speed guys) so yes this means pressure on his coach. In 2015 I raced mixed pairs with Harriet...
Today British cycling released the dates and venues for the 2017 Cross-country series (XC), as well as the national championships and Marathon championships. We've put together a little info on each round with race reports and video previews we have from other events. Round 1: 1-2nd April 2017,...
Faster and leaner, something all of us want to be, but, do we recover enough? Do we try and push on when we should be recovering? Jason Marriott found himself over training. He has shared his recently over training experience with us, it’s really worth the read and something we can all learn...
I hadn’t even heard of the Jelenia Gora Trophy until Wednesday and yet 48 hours later, I’m walking the course at 10 o’clock the night before the race with a useless freebie torch from Deutsche Bahn. I literally had to wait until the sun came up before I could ride the course for the first...
Back in 2015 we caught up with Emily Benham with our Race bike Focus feature, Now she has been kind enough to share her recent adventures of bike packing with us, something for 2017 perhaps? Bzzzzz. Bzzzzz. Bzz…. It’s still dark outside as I groggily roll over to turn off the alarm....