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North West Tour – on the road again

22 June 2012

I’m on the way to stage 3 of the North West Tour- so please excuse the short post as it’s from the back of a van. I’m here at the tour as a team of 1, as the rest of the VIS crew couldn’t make it and wanted to remind me how much I’d miss [...]

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May update – Getting dirty, then getting clean

29 May 2012

May has been a big month. I’m a bit behind with Ride Happy posts, so here is a very brief snapshot of what’s been going on. We started with Battle on the Border in Qld. I am still leading the National Road Series, although the amazing Ruth Corset is hot on my heels. My mum [...]

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Lisa’s Mum presents Battle on the Border vs Mt Beauty 6 hr MTB (in an Eagle-versus-Shark kind of way)

13 May 2012

My race report from Battle on the Border (last weekend in Qld) is way overdue. As is my race report from the Mt Beauty 6 hour MTB race the previous weekend. As is my uni assignment. So, in the interests of multi-tasking, I enlisted the help of Lisa’s Mum to consolidate the two races into [...]

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Show no Mersey (and some cool news)

25 April 2012

Last weekend was the Mersey Valley Tour, the first race of the national road series. The VIS women (or @VIS_Chicks now, for all the cool kids) were running a skeleton operation due to a last-minute poaching job by Australian team coach Martin Barras. With 2 weeks to go before the tour, our casualty list looked [...]

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Tour of Mersey Valley

22 April 2012

We are driving to Launceston airport after the end of a tough tour- the first in the Subaru National Road Series. The VIS team acquitted itself with yellow jerseys to Alex ‘Mr Aero’ Morgan in the U19 men, and me in the elite women. Unfortunately neither of us won a Subaru. Proper race report to [...]

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Crazy 6

6 April 2012

A couple of weekends ago, my VIS teammate Chloe ‘The Enforcer’ McConville and I raced the Crazy 6, a 6-hr MTB enduro put on by the good people at Geelong Mountain Bike Club in the You Yangs. It was awesome; certainly one of most enjoyable races I’ve done. We were talked into racing the Crazy [...]

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2012 Marathon Challenge – or Why Adonis Should Be A Mountain Biker

21 March 2012

This is a story of unrequited love. And coffee. And mountain biking. Last Sunday I took part in the Marathon Challenge in Avoca put on by Big Hill Events. The Marathon Challenge prides itself on being the toughest mtb marathon in Australia. The 90km ‘full’ marathon has 2800m of vertical climbing. (To put this in [...]

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BASE Camp report

15 March 2012

The Labour Day long weekend was awesome. I’m all in favour of the union movement if it means that once a year I can get an extra day to go somewhere nice and ride my bike. Since coming back from Tour of NZ I’ve been enjoying a lovely break off the bike. My body has [...]

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Tour of NZ video #3: Jess Allen’s guide to time trial warm-ups

12 March 2012

The final instalment of the Ride Happy video collection for 2012 Tour of New Zealand – and some would say the best. White jersey winner Jess Allen takes us through the ins and outs of how to warm up for a time trial when it’s raining, pre stage 1. It is unconfirmed whether Jess used [...]

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Cheats, match-fixing and the integrity of sport

4 March 2012

Last week, Mark Arbib stepped down from his role as Federal Minister for Sport. It was a role he had held since September 2010. Under his charge, elite sport in Australia flourished. The AOC loved him, largely because he ignored the recommendation of the very-expensive-and-extensively-researched 2009 Crawford Report to stop throwing money at Olympic sports. [...]

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