This is the second race in the Richie Mountain Bike Challenge that I entered.  Last year I did this race as well (see this post.)  I entered the 53km, 1900m of climbing race again and was determined to do better than last year.  I have done the course a number of times before the race [click to read more]

In the past couple of years I was fortunate enought to go to Germany in the summers of 2007 and 2008 to study German and also to do some mountain bike races. I entered the Ritchey MtB Challenge, which consist of 8 different races from March to October. I was only be able to do [click to read more]

Geological time travel on only two wheels Rock climbers gravitate to Yosemite. Surfers collect in Jeffery’s Bay; Mountaineers look at Everest with reverential awe. Every sport has its Mecca. Mountain bikers consider Moab in Utah, to be the seat and joy of their creed. Above the Colorado River, and below the plateau known as Island [click to read more]

The Cape Epic takes place every year around the last week of March and the first week of April. The race is held over 8 days in the beautiful Western Cape province in South Africa.   The route changes every year, and this year the route is from Knysna to Cape Town.  What is very interesting about the Cape Epic is [click to read more]

After Tour de Afrique (TdA), I was quite inspired to cycle more (sounds strange after all those thousands of km’s…)  It was very nice to be fit and it was so hard to get fit for TdA that it seemed like a waist not to capitalize on it further.  As luck would have it, there [click to read more]