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World Mountain Bike
24 Hours of Adrenalin: The Race(19/09/2011 09:48:22)July 26-27th: Question, what's the best thing to get the adrenalin of an endurance racer going before a big event? Let's make it easy with a multiple choice selection, fingers on the buzzers, is it... A) a potent mix of carbs and caffeine ... |
24 Hours of Adrenalin: Showtime(19/09/2011 09:48:15)July 25th: A beautiful day in Canmore with clear skies and summer temperatures were prefect for the final pit build up. The Monavie-Cannondale team rolled in to town with 2007 defending champ Tinker Juarez looking ready to rock the trails and ... |
24 Hours of Adrenalin: First Wild Animal Sighting(19/09/2011 09:47:54)July 24th: After some heavy rain through the night, the skies this morning looked all the more favourable. I was especially keen to find out how the course had faired from the downpours so headed out early to make the most of the soft conditi ... |
24 Hours of Adrenalin: The Sparrow has Landed(19/09/2011 09:47:35)July 23rd: After a delayed flight, over 22 hours of travelling, and late arrival yesterday I was relieved when I'd finally got the bikes built and was ready to take a spin out to the Canmore Nordic Centre. I wasn't expecting to be able t ... |
Canmore Clear & Bright(20/07/2008)News just in from the main man on the ground in Canmore Stuart Dorland, organiser of the 24 Hours of Adrenalin World Championships on July 26-27th, is that weather conditions are looking clear and fine (at the moment!) The pic was taken at 8am this ... |
Countdown to Canmore(16/07/2008)With just 10 days to go until the 24 Hours of Adrenalin World Solo Championships in Canmore, Canada, it's not the time to start getting nervous (that'll be the night before!) 200 solo riders and 1400 team athletes will be racing themselves into th ... |
National Mountain Bike
BMBS 1 2012 - The Two Ronnies(23/04/2012 14:00:34)Should I be a fan of cushions, cues, green baize and balls then the number 147 would certainly be one of the friendliest figures in mind to keep the world spinning in the right direction. The fact that snooker is an indoor sport, played in a climate ... |
BMBS 5 - True Romance(18/10/2011 09:04:51)Come on brain, switch yourself into slumber mode for a few hours (please) I need time to sleep. Eyes shut but still a million thoughts bouncing off the inside of my melon until eventually, in the early hours of the morning, the whole world seems at p ... |
BMBS 4 - Mardy Bum(22/09/2011 09:52:38)Yesterday all seemed black and white, a figure hugging mist clung to the Welsh dirt like a lone rider desperately trying to find an ounce of traction on a muddy off-camber hillside. Under tyre the conditions weren’t favourable. 6km of rock strewn roo ... |
BMBS 3 - Don’t Blame It on the Weatherman(19/09/2011 10:16:40)I remember not too many years ago when the bookies odds on an accurate weather forecast for the proceeding twenty-four hours were no better than the probability of landing a lottery win. The paradigm shift came in 2008 with the evolution of the iPhon ... |
D.A.L.B....why?(10/06/2011 16:46:04)A week later and I can still feel the deep muscle pain that Dalby Forest gleefully inflicted on my legs. In times like this it sometimes offers a moment of reflection, when not everything is going the way you had seen it in your head. Time to reach ... |
BMBS 2 - Nervous Laugh(19/04/2011 17:12:53)I’ve always believed that the hard days in life are thrown in to make the good times taste all the sweeter. It’d be easy to get complacent if everything rolled along under a perfect blue sky day in day out. Adversity is more than a rock hard mountain ... |
BMBS 1 - Baptism Of Forest Fire(03/04/2011)Fortunately, most of the time things appear a lot worse in your head than in reality. I use the word “most” in its loosest sense since I’ve now come to realise, like a cricket bat to the back of the melon, that things sometimes are in fact a lot wors ... |
Regional Mountain Bike
Gorrick Round 5 - The Youth of Yesterday(12/05/2012 21:37:48)Glue sniffin’, gangster trippin’, Friday night brawlin’, Nova SR haulin’, 6x9’s thumpin’, Vodka drunken. What a state and it’s not even late. It could’ve been so different but I’m glad I didn’t listen, to the freaks on the street, the type I don’t wa ... |
Southern XC 1 2012 - The Birth of 'Bigfoot'(27/03/2012 23:36:09)Little by little the room becomes more crowded. Cardboard clutters the floor as another polythene bag is filled with discarded packing material. A spin of the front wheel and the noise of the world is replaced by the sweet sound of silence. No skimmi ... |
Southern XC 4 - Cycling.....Not Calculus(18/10/2011 09:02:29)Without a shadow of a doubt, it’s been a very long time since I’ve had this feeling. In fact, when I really think about it I reckon the last time was a good twelve years ago whilst attempting to better (or perhaps batter) myself with an education at ... |
Southern XC 3 - Point Break(19/09/2011 10:16:18)Ironic really that you can ride practically from sunrise to sunset in the mountains just a few days earlier yet a simple spin to loosen the legs can end up as anything but its intended purpose. Unfortunately that was precisely the case on Saturday, j ... |
Southern XC 2 - Wasing the World Away(07/06/2011 10:05:44)In my mind it’s true, you’re only as good as your last race, and following the self destruction at 'demolition Dalby' both body and mind seemed to have no sense of urgency in forcing a swift recovery. From the physical perspective I didn’t nee ... |
Southern XC 1 - Losing Your Bottle(12/04/2011)It never fails to amaze me just how powerful the mind is. An individual element at the centre of everything, providing focus and clarity in any given moment. It also never fails to intrigue me as to why it works more efficiently at certain times than ... |
Gorrick MTB - Pining Four More(22/03/2011)No matter how long or hard I think, I still can’t quite remember the last time I raced a Gorrick mountain bike event. Up until now the last full season aboard 26 inch rubber was way back in ’99. Holy shizzle, that’s a whole lotta years floated on by. ... |
