News straight from the Trailblazers MTBO website:
Summer is nearly over and the new season of Mountainbike navigation events are coming around again.
The ever popular Dromara CC trailquests are taking place in the build-up to the new year, with events spread around County Down.
Our very own Trailblazers events will be taking place soon with the promise [read more...]
Back in July, Bobby Smyth represented Ireland for the 2010 MTBO World Championship, held in Portugal. Bobby has put together an excellent detailed report and if you dash over to the Trailblazers MTBO website, you can read it there.
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Currently the World MTBO Championships are taking place over in Montalegre, Portugal. Bobby Smyth is representing Ireland at the event and is being supported and cheered on by his wife and young family.
MTBO championships follow the same format as the foot orienteering – sprint, middle, long & relay. The Sprint event took place on [read more...]
Great news on the MTBO front is that local rider Bobby Smyth has been selected to represent Ireland at this year’s World Mountainbike Orienteering Championships in Portugal.
Bobby has been a regular at many mountainbike navigation events over the last couple of seasons, including the winter Dromara CC Trailquest Series and the TrailBlazer/MTBO Series. In Fact, [read more...]
Now under their 2nd year of sponsorship from Buff, team “Average Joes in the Buff” kicked off its Rat Race Weekender season over the 5th-6th June in Bristol. The mixed team comprised of one of the original “Joes”, Ivan Park of CCAR (who was male Team winner at Galway Rat Race last year along with [read more...]
Planners – Jon Kay/ Ivan Park.
The north coast of Antrim was the location for the final round of the Trailblazer/MTBO trailquest series. Ballintoy was the event’s HQ and most competitors had a shock when they realized the length of the steep hill down to the harbour (they had to cycle back up it to get [read more...]
Well, I can’t say it any better than this…………
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The second round of the Trailblazer/MTBO trailquest series took place yesterday in, only what could be described as perfect riding weather. Blues sky, lots of sunshine (but not overly warm) and a nice light sea breeze for the run in home. Again, competitors were treated to another area new to trailquesting. This time it was [read more...]
Well, we got away with it! I woke up on Tuesday morning (the day after the event) and it was chucking it down. I was half expecting Noah and his ark of animals to slowly float pass the window, the rain was that heavy. So, from a planner’s point of view; how did it go? [read more...]
After all the heavy rain on Sunday night, Monday thankfully remained dry. However, it left a vicious wind, but was luckily not too cold. There were lots of smiles at the end, which is a good sign for any planner. A big thanks to everyone who turned up. There were 41 people making up 20 [read more...]
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