Bike Buller

For those who don’t know, I am a keen mountain biker, and have recently started attending some organised races. Although, I technically can’t claim to be a serious racer, for me it’s more about the experience and the atmosphere at a race meet. Last weekend, I attended the Mt Buller Mountain Bike Festival at Mt Buller, Victoria. This is all part of our training towards the BMC 100km. It was an enourmously enjoyable event, even though the courses were pretty brutal. The event consisted of a 20km ride on the Saturday, followed by a 6km downhill race (which I didn’t take part in) and then a 50km race on the sunday.

The 20km course was very technical. Being a mountain, the course relief was pretty much straight up and straight down again. Long, twisting climbs (some with up to 15 switchbacks) followed by bone jarring and very technical singletrack descents. It was what my old friend Tom would describe as “darn technegol”.

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