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If you are a "Last-minute-Larry" waiting for the 11th hour to enter the Odyssey or GOGG..NOW IS THE TIME!๐‹๐š๐ญ๐ž-๐…๐ž๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ง...
06/02/2025

If you are a "Last-minute-Larry" waiting for the 11th hour to enter the Odyssey or GOGG..

NOW IS THE TIME!

๐‹๐š๐ญ๐ž-๐…๐ž๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐Ÿ“๐๐Œ, ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐“๐‡ ๐Ž๐… ๐…๐„๐ (๐ง๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ ๐Œ๐จ๐ง๐๐š๐ฒ).

(Entering now also really helps us with event preparations to know who / how many are racing ๐Ÿ˜€).

Momentum is building with dozens of entries rolling in each day (including big names like Melisa Rollins, Bec Henderson, Peta Mullens, Brendan Johnston, Samara Sheppard, Courtney Sherwell, Sam Fox... the list goes on).

It's going to be a cracker!

So....

Share this with your training partners, consult your significant other, and get your kids fired up for the 10km or Groms...

If you like bikes, dirt and cheer...

This is a weekend not to be missed.

ENTER HERE:
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/ENTER_ODYSSEY_GOGG

Act casualโ€ฆ thereโ€™s cycling royalty in our midst! ๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿšดโ€โ™€๏ธWeโ€™re stoked to announce that 2024 Leadville 100 winner, MELISA R...
05/02/2025

Act casualโ€ฆ thereโ€™s cycling royalty in our midst! ๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿšดโ€โ™€๏ธ

Weโ€™re stoked to announce that 2024 Leadville 100 winner, MELISA ROLLINS, is a confirmed starter for the 2025 Otway Odyssey!

She finished 2nd in the Life Time Grand Prix last year, so sheโ€™ll no doubt be in the mix for the win. Plus, calls her a โ€œgirl crushโ€ โ€“ so you know sheโ€™s a top notch human!

๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ž๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง?
"๐ผ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘‚๐‘ก๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘“๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž๐‘› "๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘›" ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’. ๐ต๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ˆ๐‘† ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘‘๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐ด๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐‘–๐‘ก'๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘”๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘ ๐‘€๐‘‡๐ต ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’. ๐ด๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ข๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐ด๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘๐‘’!"

๐“๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž?
"๐ผ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘ก'๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘˜ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘”๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘œ ๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘™๐‘š๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’. ๐ผ๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ โ„Ž ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘›๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘”๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘”๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘ ."

๐…๐ฎ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฒ?
"๐ผ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘‘๐‘œ 100 ๐‘” ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘/โ„Ž๐‘Ÿ. ๐ผ'๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž. ๐‘๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘“๐‘’๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’, ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘“๐‘“๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”! ๐‘€๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘›๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘’๐‘‘! ๐ธ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘“๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›. ๐ท๐‘œ๐‘›'๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ."

๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐š ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ž?
" ๐‘‚๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐ผ ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ ! ๐ผ'๐‘š ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’. ๐ผ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘”๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž, ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘“."

๐๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฉ?
"๐‘€๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘‹๐ถ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐ผ ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ . ๐ผ'๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘› ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐พ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ž ๐‘…๐‘ข๐‘ โ„Ž ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ --๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘‹๐ถ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘ . ๐ผ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘ฃ ๐‘ƒ๐‘–๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘’, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ."

๐€๐๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ?
"๐ผ'๐‘š ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘“ ๐ผ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’, โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ :)"

So good to have you Melisa.

Canโ€™t wait to see you take on the Odyssey! ๐Ÿ”ฅ

To join Melisa on the start line, get your entry in here before prices go up next Monday:
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/ENTER_ODYSSEY_GOGG

You donโ€™t have to dig very deep to find overlap between Otway Odyssey and the Life Time Grand Prix (the most elite, off-...
04/02/2025

You donโ€™t have to dig very deep to find overlap between Otway Odyssey and the Life Time Grand Prix (the most elite, off-road cycling series in the world).

Examplesโ€ฆ

๐‘๐ฒ๐š๐ง ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ง๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ก won the 2018 Otway Odyssey (ahead of Tour Down Under Winner Jay Vine). He then went on to race the 2023 Life Time Grand Prix, finishing in 25th position.

๐“๐š๐ฌ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐๐š๐ง๐ค๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ is a mainstay at the Otway Odyssey โ€“ winning the 100km in 2017. Heโ€™s arguably even stronger at the GOGG โ€“ winning the event 6 times in itโ€™s 9 year history!
Tasman also raced the Life Time Grand Prix in 2023, placing an impressive 17th.

Then thereโ€™s ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐๐š๐ง ๐‰๐จ๐ก๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐งโ€ฆ He races Odyssey virtually every year (and has won the 100km twice in 2019, 2022). Trekky placed 7th in the 2023 Life Time Grand Prix and 4th in 2024. (He also came 2nd by the narrowest of margins in the prestigious Big Sugar Gravel Race in 2023).

In the womenโ€™s field, thereโ€™s ๐๐ž๐ญ๐š ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ โ€“ 6 time Odyssey champion and 3 time winner of the GOGG. Peta raced the Life Time Grand Prix last year and placed a very respectable 21st.

Thereโ€™s also ๐’๐š๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐š ๐’๐ก๐ž๐ฉ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐โ€ฆ Sheโ€™s a force to be reckoned with in the Odyssey and GOGG each year (2025 to be no exception). Sheโ€™s won the GOGG twice (2019 & 2024) and has been a fixture at the pointy end of the 100km MTB in recent years. Samara raced the 2024 Life Time Grand Prix, placing an awesome 16th against the best in the business. Now sheโ€™s lining up for the 2025 series too!

Then thereโ€™s ๐„๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ซโ€ฆ Ella placed 5th in last yearโ€™s Odyssey (and won the Shimano Gravel Muster!) off the back of her 2023 Life Time Grand Prix circuit where she finished 22nd.

And, letโ€™s not forget, ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ญ๐ง๐ž๐ฒ ๐’๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ โ€“ previous winner of the GOGG (2022) and second place getter in the 100km Odyssey. Coming off the back of some world-class results, Courtney is a confirmed starter in the 2025 Life Time Grand Prix.

But thatโ€™s not allโ€ฆ

๐Ÿ‘€ ๐‘๐ฎ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ ๐Ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ž๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š ๐๐„๐– ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐“๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฑ ๐Ÿ‘€

๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฑโ€ฆ

๐‡๐š๐ฌ ๐–๐Ž๐ ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐”๐’๐€ ๐Œ๐“๐ ๐ฌ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐žโ€ฆ

๐€๐ง๐ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐“๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฑ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ.

๐€๐ง๐ฒ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐›๐ž?

Join these legends on the start line here:
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/ENTER_ODYSSEY_GOGG

[๐Ž๐“๐–๐€๐˜ ๐Ž๐ƒ๐˜๐’๐’๐„๐˜ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Š๐Œ | ๐‚๐Ž๐”๐‘๐’๐„ ๐๐Ž๐“๐„๐’ | ๐๐€๐‘๐“ ๐Ÿ• | โ€œ๐€ ๐‹๐ˆ๐“๐“๐‹๐„ ๐’๐„๐๐ƒ๐˜โ€]What goes up must come downโ€ฆ And after a brute of a clim...
02/02/2025

[๐Ž๐“๐–๐€๐˜ ๐Ž๐ƒ๐˜๐’๐’๐„๐˜ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Š๐Œ | ๐‚๐Ž๐”๐‘๐’๐„ ๐๐Ž๐“๐„๐’ | ๐๐€๐‘๐“ ๐Ÿ• | โ€œ๐€ ๐‹๐ˆ๐“๐“๐‹๐„ ๐’๐„๐๐ƒ๐˜โ€]

What goes up must come downโ€ฆ

And after a brute of a climb up Thompsons Track (the 90km point of the race), you take a left hand turn on Hayden Track and begin the mostly downhill approach to the finish.

After 3km of relatively smooth sailing, you take a left onto Newcombe Spur Track, and things get a little rugged.

This undulating, stunning and sometimes rutty section of fire-road is surrounded towering Mountain Ash and covered with the associated debris. (If you Google โ€œNewcombe Spur Trackโ€ youโ€™ll see dozens of images of Land Cruisers up to their axles in ruts!).

Pick your line carefully, let gravity do the talking and when you hit the steep climbs, use momentum to your advantage.

The fastest known time down this ~8km section was set by Adrian Jackson during last yearโ€™s Odyssey. He completed the โ€œdescentโ€ in a time of ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ” ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ” ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฌ โ€“ ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ– ๐ค๐ฆ๐ก.

In the womenโ€™s, Samara Sheppard took the QOM in 2023โ€™s race. She completed this Segment in ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘ ๐ค๐ฆ/๐ก.

Let those average speeds be a clueโ€ฆ

This โ€œdescentโ€ is not to be underestimated!

For Strava stalking, go here:
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://www.strava.com/segments/31063567?filter=overall

And to enter the Odyssey nd/or GOGG, go here:
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/ENTER_ODYSSEY_GOGG

Getting close nowโ€ฆ

The (very excited) Rapid Ascent Team

First times at the Odyssey are always scaryโ€ฆ ๐–๐ก๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐œ๐ค ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž: โ€œ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐ผ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ...
27/01/2025

First times at the Odyssey are always scaryโ€ฆ

๐–๐ก๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐œ๐ค ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž:

โ€œ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐ผ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘–๐‘ก. ๐‘€๐‘ฆ ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘€๐‘‡๐ต ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž ๐‘ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘™ ๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐ผ'๐‘š ๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘“ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐ผ ๐‘”๐‘œ. ๐ด๐‘  ๐‘Ž 41 ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘‘, ๐ผ'๐‘š โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘“ ๐ผ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘Ž ๐ท๐‘๐น.โ€
โ€“ Mark, 50km MTB

๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐š ๐ฆ๐š๐ฃ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ๐›๐š๐œ๐คโ€ฆ

โ€œ๐น๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ. ๐บ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜.โ€
โ€“ Ian, 50km MTB

๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐‚๐€๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก ๐š๐ง โ€œ๐จ๐ฅ๐โ€ ๐๐จ๐  ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ค๐ฌ...

โ€œ๐ผ'๐‘š 60 ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘, ๐ผ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’, ๐ผ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’, ๐ผ'๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘ , ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ผ ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข'๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘œ ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค.โ€
โ€“ Jeffery, 30km MTB

๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ซโ€ฆ

โ€œ๐ผ'๐‘š ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ 50๐‘˜๐‘š ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐ท๐‘Ž๐‘‘. ๐ผ'๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ!โ€
โ€“ Elliot, 50km MTB (12 year old!)

๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐š ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐žโ€ฆ

โ€œ๐ผ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž ๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘™ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’!โ€
โ€“ Sholto 97km GRAVEL
โ€‹โ€‹
๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐งโ€ฆ

โ€œ๐ด๐‘๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘š๐‘ฆ 3 ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘–๐‘Ÿ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘€๐‘‡๐ต ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’.โ€
โ€“ David 10km MTB

๐Ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌโ€ฆ

โ€œ๐ผโ€™๐‘š ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘Ž ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘. ๐ผโ€™๐‘š ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐ผโ€™๐‘™๐‘™ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐ผโ€™๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘š, ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐ผโ€™๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘š ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆโ€
โ€“ Scotty, 49km GRAVEL

No matter what the situation, first times take courage.

So, please put your virtual hands together for the brave souls breaking personal frontiers at the 2025 Odyssey.

Weโ€™ll certainly be cheering extra hard when they cross the line.

The Rapid Ascent Team

ENTRIES HERE:
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://raceroster.com/events/2025/93506/great-otway-gravel-grind-and-otway-odyssey-2025

"๐‘ฐ๐’• ๐’ƒ๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’” ๐’–๐’” ๐’„๐’๐’๐’”๐’†๐’“ ๐’•๐’๐’ˆ๐’†๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“"The Odyssey weekend isn't all about skin-suits & winning-salutes... For riders like Derll...
26/01/2025

"๐‘ฐ๐’• ๐’ƒ๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’” ๐’–๐’” ๐’„๐’๐’๐’”๐’†๐’“ ๐’•๐’๐’ˆ๐’†๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“"

The Odyssey weekend isn't all about skin-suits & winning-salutes...

For riders like Derlly, it's about the bonds she builds with her family along the way.

She says:

"๐ผ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘š๐‘’, ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘‚๐‘ก๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘‚๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ฆ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘–๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›. ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’š ๐’š๐’†๐’‚๐’“, ๐’Š๐’• ๐’ƒ๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’” ๐’–๐’” ๐’„๐’๐’๐’”๐’†๐’“ ๐’•๐’๐’ˆ๐’†๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“. ๐ผ ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ , ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘’ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘š๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก. ๐ด๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘’, ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘”๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ , ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘›. ๐‘†โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’, ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›, ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’. ๐ผ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘˜ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”!"

Awesome stuff Derlly. This is the kinda story that gives us goosebumps!

Whether you plan on riding with your family, old mates, or new mates you make along the way, nothing forms connections like shared hardship.

Come join the suffering... errr I mean... fun:

๐Ÿ‘‰https://raceroster.com/events/2025/93506/great-otway-gravel-grind-and-otway-odyssey-2025

Thereโ€™s an OLYMPIC MEDALLIST in our midst!Reading the โ€œabout youโ€ field on the Odyssey/GOGG entry forms never ceases to ...
22/01/2025

Thereโ€™s an OLYMPIC MEDALLIST in our midst!

Reading the โ€œabout youโ€ field on the Odyssey/GOGG entry forms never ceases to amaze us.

As we were scanning down the list today, our eyes were drawn to Wayneโ€™s, entry.

It said:

โ€œ๐‘‚๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘”๐‘–๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘. ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ด๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’.๐‘‚๐‘™๐‘ฆ๐‘š๐‘๐‘–๐‘ ๐ต๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ง๐‘’ & ๐ถ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘กโ„Ž ๐บ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ 80'๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘‡๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜โ€

Curiosity piqued, we did a bit of a Google searchโ€ฆ

Sure enough, he was part of the 1988 4000m Team Pursuit crew that did win a Bronze at the Seoul Olympics.

The team (including the legendary Dean Woods) covered the 4km in 4 mins and 16 seconds โ€“ an average of over 56km/h! (unfathomable considering the equipment of the 80s).

Wayne also won GOLD in the 1986 Commonwealth Games in the same discipline.

How good is that?!

Wayne is entered in the 97km GOGG this Feb and weโ€™re honoured to have him.
(Letโ€™s hope heโ€™s a bit slower these days!)

Now, trivia timeโ€ฆ

๐€๐ง๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐Ž๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐œ ๐ฆ๐ž๐๐š๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ž ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ž๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฒ ๐จ๐ซ ๐†๐Ž๐†๐†?

CLUE: There was at least one in the early days of Odyssey...

Entries for Odyssey and GOGG here:
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://raceroster.com/events/2025/93506/great-otway-gravel-grind-and-otway-odyssey-2025

27kgโ€ฆ Thatโ€™s the weight of 2.5 average sized monkeysโ€ฆOne (fat) male British Bulldogโ€ฆ3 full size watermelonsโ€ฆ โ€“ OR โ€“The ...
21/01/2025

27kgโ€ฆ

Thatโ€™s the weight of 2.5 average sized monkeysโ€ฆ

One (fat) male British Bulldogโ€ฆ

3 full size watermelonsโ€ฆ

โ€“ OR โ€“

The amount of weight Otway Odyssey rider, Ryan, has lost in a single year, all thanks to mountain biking.

*๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐จ๐ค๐ž ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ โ€˜๐ ๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ.๐Ÿ“ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ค๐ž๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐›๐š๐œ๐คโ€™* ๐Ÿ˜‚

In case you misread thatโ€ฆ

In January 2024, Ryan was 108 kg and โ€œ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘’โ€ (in his words).

He started riding mountain bikesโ€ฆ

And now, just 12 months later, heโ€™s 81 kg and โ€œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘๐‘–๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก โ„Ž๐‘’โ€™๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘Ž ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’โ€.

Heโ€™s now entered the 100km Otway Odyssey for 2025 to celebrate his reclaimed fitness.

Thatโ€™s the beautiful thing about all these unconventional endurance sports we all love so muchโ€ฆ

Yes, they are hardโ€ฆ

Yes, they take disciplineโ€ฆ

And yes, your family and friends probably look at you like youโ€™ve got 3 heads when you tell them youโ€™re getting up early to ride 30, 50, 100km on the mountain bikeโ€ฆ

BUTโ€ฆ

The payoff they bring (confidence, fitness, an entire social network of slightly crazy friends) is HUGE compared to the sacrifice.

Itโ€™s no wonder theyโ€™re so addictive.

So, next time youโ€™re thinking โ€œ๐ผ ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆโ€ think about Ryan, think about how lucky you are to have found a way to stay in shape that you frickinโ€™ loveโ€ฆ Then HIT THE TRAILS.

Youโ€™ll feel better for it.

Huge congratulations Ryan. Canโ€™t wait to cheer you across the finish line in Feb.

You can join Ryan at Odyssey here:
https://bit.ly/41mTj1o

[๐Ž๐“๐–๐€๐˜ ๐Ž๐ƒ๐˜๐’๐’๐„๐˜ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Š๐Œ | ๐‚๐Ž๐”๐‘๐’๐„ ๐๐Ž๐“๐„๐’ | ๐๐€๐‘๐“ ๐Ÿ” | ๐“๐‡๐Ž๐Œ๐๐’๐Ž๐๐’ ๐“๐‘๐€๐‚๐Š] Whenever we think of Thompson Track, we immediately thin...
16/01/2025

[๐Ž๐“๐–๐€๐˜ ๐Ž๐ƒ๐˜๐’๐’๐„๐˜ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Š๐Œ | ๐‚๐Ž๐”๐‘๐’๐„ ๐๐Ž๐“๐„๐’ | ๐๐€๐‘๐“ ๐Ÿ” | ๐“๐‡๐Ž๐Œ๐๐’๐Ž๐๐’ ๐“๐‘๐€๐‚๐Š]

Whenever we think of Thompson Track, we immediately think of the Thompson Submachine Gunโ€ฆ

And thatโ€™s because when you hit this ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ.๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ๐ค๐ฆ ๐œ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐›, ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ•.๐Ÿ“๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ž, it feels like having your legs torn apart by one thousand bullets.

Itโ€™s longโ€ฆ

Itโ€™s steep (getting up to 15% in places)...

And itโ€™s brutally late in the race.

Good news is, you can mentally break the climb into 2 partsโ€ฆ

1) ๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ”๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž ๐Ÿฅตโ€“ with an average of 4.4% (with plenty of leg-sappingly steep sections).

2) ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ง, ๐š ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ฉ, ~๐Ÿ๐ค๐ฆ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐Ÿ˜…โ€ฆ

3) And, ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐›๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ก ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ(~620m above sea level).

The whole thing (including descent) is a smidgen over 10km and, believe it or not, the KOM does NOT belong to Tali Lane-Welshโ€ฆ

Rather, Brendan โ€œTrekkyโ€ Johnston has the record from 2023. He rode the entire climb in 30 mins 45 seconds at an average power of 372 watts ๐Ÿคฏ (he went on to finish 2nd to Dan McConnell by just 2 seconds!).

The womenโ€™s QOM is also a bit surprisingโ€ฆ

Itโ€™s not Bec Hendersonโ€ฆ

Not Peta Mullensโ€ฆ

But Samara Sheppard, in 2023, when she polished off the climb in a rapid 36 mins 32 seconds to claim 3rd place overall (power data not available ๐Ÿ˜”).

Elites asideโ€ฆ

This climb is a brute and should be respected.

When you go through the footy ground for the 3rd and final time, eat plenty, have a caffeine gel and get ready for a loooong push to the high point.

Having said that, you can afford to *somewhat* empty the tank towards the top โ€“ itโ€™s all down hill from the top (except for the uphills).

For Strava sluths, the segment is here: https://www.strava.com/segments/31122405?filter=overall

For entries, go here:
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/41mTj1o

P.S. If you donโ€™t like the sound of Thompson Track, fear not. There are plenty of shorter race options that miss this section altogether!

Itโ€™s easy for us to get biased about our own races โ€“ they are our โ€œbabiesโ€ after all. Thatโ€™s why we try to get as much r...
15/01/2025

Itโ€™s easy for us to get biased about our own races โ€“ they are our โ€œbabiesโ€ after all.

Thatโ€™s why we try to get as much raw and honest feedback after each event as possible.

Sometimes we get a lotโ€ฆ

Sometimes we get a littleโ€ฆ

Sometimes itโ€™s goodโ€ฆ

Sometimes itโ€™s constructiveโ€ฆ

And sometimes itโ€™s downright bizarre ("more raw-sashimi at the aid stations please"*)โ€ฆ

But, after the first ever Shimano Gravel Muster, the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.

So, if you're thinking about joining the 2025 event, donโ€™t take our word for why you should โ€œabsolutely, 1000% DO ITโ€...

Instead, check out the dozens of straight-from-the-horses-mouth opinions (pictured) from people whoโ€™ve actually experienced the event for themselves.

Hope it helps,

The Rapid Ascent Team

P.S. The event is already 30% full (40% female, 60% male ranging from 25-60+). So, by all means, do you research. But don't dilly, dally for too long before pulling the trigger...

DETAILS HERE: https://bit.ly/3VjaxbV

*Noone has actually asked for sashimi, but you'd be amazed at how wild some requests can be!

FREE, WOMEN-ONLY, ODYSSEY TRAINING RIDES!As part of our gender equity program, we're calling all FEMALE mountain bikers ...
13/01/2025

FREE, WOMEN-ONLY, ODYSSEY TRAINING RIDES!

As part of our gender equity program, we're calling all FEMALE mountain bikers who've signed up for the 2025 Otway Odyssey MTB to come along to the Odyssey Angels Training Rides.

Run by our friends at Forrest Mountain Bike & Cycling Club, this is for WOMEN-ONLY and is fully subsidised to help them prepare to have a great day on the bike.

Every ride will have a qualified instructor, and thereโ€™ll be opportunity to discuss how to tackle different sections on the course. Some sessions will be more focussed on fitness, whilst others will break down a specific segment. As always, it will be FUN!

Sessions are strictly for women whoโ€™ve entered the 2025 Otway Odyssey, and limited to 10 places only. Held on each Tuesday (7pm) and Saturday (2pm) in the lead up to the event at Forrest, VIC - an easily accessible day-trip from the big smoke!

Here are the Saturday dates โ€“ PLEASE follow the link posted in comments to secure your place:
ยท Sat 18 Jan
ยท Sat 25 Jan
ยท Sat 1 Feb
ยท Sat 8 Feb
ยท Sat 15 Feb

Events are listed on the Forrest MTB page โ€“ sign up FREE via youโ€™re your chosen event date: https://www.facebook.com/forrestmountainbikeclub/events/?id=100064690988490&sk=events

Entries for Otway Odyssey (30km, 50km or 100km here):
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/41mTj1o

12/01/2025

What's the best way to minimise suffering during Otway Odyssey?

Asking for a friend...

Yeees! The ol' faithful elites are coming out of the woodwork to tackle the 2025 Otway Odyssey. This time, it's FOUR TIM...
09/01/2025

Yeees!

The ol' faithful elites are coming out of the woodwork to tackle the 2025 Otway Odyssey.

This time, it's FOUR TIME Olympian and MULTI World-Cup winner (not to mention 3-time Odyssey champ!), Rebecca Henderson.

The pieces are falling into place for another EPIC Odyssey...

Who's joining Bec Henderson on the start line?

08/01/2025

Heโ€™s BACK!

6 time Odyssey champion, Chris โ€œJ-Bloodโ€ Jongawaard has confirmed heโ€™ll be racing the 100KM event again this Feb.

And when you look at his track record, you might wonder โ€œWHY?!โ€...

Surely heโ€™s achieved enough in cycling to sit back, relax and enjoy some less painful pursuits.

But, according to Chris:

โ€œ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘˜๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ฅ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘ :
โ€“ ๐ถ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘ 
โ€“ ๐‘…๐‘œ๐‘Ž๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘
โ€“ ๐‘‡๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก 1-๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ
โ€“ ๐‘‰๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘‚๐‘ก๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘…๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ โ€

Truth be toldโ€ฆ

We think heโ€™s not-so-secretly thinking thereโ€™s another win left in those experienced legs.

And itโ€™s certainly not out of the question...

Last year, Chris finished 11th โ€“ just 10 mins 55 seconds off the record-breaking pace of Tali Lane-Welsh (not bad over ~5 hours of racing).

Could he be poised to teach the young-guns a lesson in 2025?

DETAILS AND ENTRIES HERE:
โžก๏ธ https://bit.ly/41mTj1o

19/12/2024

โ€œ๐ถโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ฆโ€ฆโ€

Kephren Izzard isnโ€™t just a strong athlete (the week before we shot this he was competing in the World Cross Triathlon Championships!) โ€ฆ

Heโ€™s also got an infectious laugh and positivity that made him an absolute asset at the first-ever Shimano Gravel Muster.

If youโ€™re thinking about coming to the Muster 2025, heโ€™s got some great intel (including valuable advice on bikes).

Check out the video to learn moreโ€ฆ

Forget death and taxesโ€ฆIf there are 2 certainties in 2025, itโ€™s these: 1) ๐๐ž๐ฐ ๐›๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ ๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ค๐ข๐งโ€™ ๐š๐ฐ๐ž๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž (it...
19/12/2024

Forget death and taxesโ€ฆ

If there are 2 certainties in 2025, itโ€™s these:

1) ๐๐ž๐ฐ ๐›๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ ๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ค๐ข๐งโ€™ ๐š๐ฐ๐ž๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž (itโ€™s one of lifeโ€™s small treasures)โ€ฆ

Andโ€ฆ

2) ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐“๐Ž๐”๐†๐‡ ๐จ๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐  ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž (did you know 80% of 18-28 year olds struggle to find work? Let alone afford the ridiculous costs of living!).

But what if you could solve both issues (new bike gear โ€“ AND โ€“ easing the burden for young people) in one fell swoop?

๐–๐žโ€™๐ซ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐š๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฐ๐žโ€™๐ซ๐ž ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐†๐จ๐จ๐ ๐‚๐ฒ๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ ๐Ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ž๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฒ/๐†๐Ž๐†๐†.

Good Cycles is a social enterprise and registered charity that helps young people to find meaningful work in the bike industry with 100% OF PROFIT going towards their program.

Since 2013, Good Cycles has provided employment and training pathways to over 750 Young People.

๐†๐จ๐จ๐ ๐‚๐ฒ๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐›๐ž ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ž๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฒ โ€“ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐š ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ-๐ฉ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ, ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ญ ๐ ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐จ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฆ.

Please support them!

How else you can help?

1) ๐’๐ก๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐†๐จ๐จ๐ ๐‚๐ฒ๐œ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐›๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐๐ฌ:

Youโ€™ll find Good Cycles bike shops in Geelong, Melbourne CBD and Brunswick.

Again, they reinvest 100% of their profits to support young people who are experiencing barriers to employment (so you can buy shiny gear and feel good about it!).

๐Ÿ) ๐ƒ๐จ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ž:

If youโ€™re feeling extra generous, you can donate via their website OR when you register for the Odyssey/GOGG (you will see the option to donate at checkout).

Learn more about Good Cycles here:
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://www.goodcycles.org.au/

Enter Odyssey/GOGG here:
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://raceroster.com/events/2025/93506/great-otway-gravel-grind-and-otway-odyssey-2025

Thanks all.

Hereโ€™s to new toys and good feels,

The Rapid Ascent Team

16/12/2024

Ella Bloorโ€ฆ

You might have seen her racing at the pointy end of the Lifetime Grand Prix in 2023โ€ฆ

Or crossing the line of Unbound in an impressive 28th position this yearโ€ฆ

Or maybe you saw her riding SOLO across Australia (4,000km from Perth to Sydney) in an impressively small number of days earlier in 2024โ€ฆ

But what you might not have seen is that, as soon as Ella finished her trans-continental push...

She jumped straight on a plane for Alice Springs for the inaugural Shimano Gravel Muster Stage Race (which she won convincingly).

We were honoured to have such a decorated and accomplished two-wheeled adventurer at the Muster.

Check out the video to hear about .bloor's experience in the red centre.

More info about Gravel Muster here:
https://bit.ly/3VjaxbV

More info about Ella's trans-Australia trip here:
https://flowmountainbike.com/features/ella-bloor-perth-to-sydney/

[๐Ž๐“๐–๐€๐˜ ๐Ž๐ƒ๐˜๐’๐’๐„๐˜ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Š๐Œ | ๐‚๐Ž๐”๐‘๐’๐„ ๐๐Ž๐“๐„๐’ | ๐๐€๐‘๐“ ๐Ÿ“ | ๐“๐‡๐„ ๐˜๐€๐”๐†๐‡๐„๐‘ ๐‡๐˜๐๐๐Ž๐“๐ˆ๐’๐„๐‘] Welcome to โ€œThe Hypnotiserโ€!After coming through ...
14/12/2024

[๐Ž๐“๐–๐€๐˜ ๐Ž๐ƒ๐˜๐’๐’๐„๐˜ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Š๐Œ | ๐‚๐Ž๐”๐‘๐’๐„ ๐๐Ž๐“๐„๐’ | ๐๐€๐‘๐“ ๐Ÿ“ | ๐“๐‡๐„ ๐˜๐€๐”๐†๐‡๐„๐‘ ๐‡๐˜๐๐๐Ž๐“๐ˆ๐’๐„๐‘]

Welcome to โ€œThe Hypnotiserโ€!

After coming through the footy ground expo for the first time โ€“ and hopefully stuffing your face with a metric sh*tload of sugar (youโ€™ll need it) โ€“ youโ€™ll climb a steep bit of fire track (Boundary Rd) before entering the Yaugher single-track zone.

And, in the Odyssey, thereโ€™s not much of Yaugher your tyres wonโ€™t traverse!

Youโ€™ll ride all the famous tracks like Grasstrees, Mariners, The Yaugher Super Loop, and J2โ€ฆ

And, at the 68km mark โ€“ WHACK โ€“ youโ€™ll meet the infamous โ€œSandy Pinchโ€ โ€“ a 260m long, steep, loose climb that only the most elite riders can get up on two wheels. (Our advice is to save plenty of energy for the top third of this pinch).

All told, The Yaugher Hypnotiser is an undulating 34km that will have you changing directions more times than a ping-pong ball in a washing machine.

SAVE PLENTY OF BICCIES FOR YAUGHER!

If youโ€™re riding this section with heavy legs/eyelids, you can lose a lot of flow (and speed).

For Strava stalking, go here:
https://www.strava.com/segments/33827622

And for more info about the event, check out the website here:
https://bit.ly/41mTj1o

As always, if youโ€™ve got any stories/advice/warnings about this sectionโ€ฆ

Please unleash in the comments below!

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๐’๐‡๐ˆ๐Œ๐€๐๐Ž ๐†๐‘๐€๐•๐„๐‹ ๐Œ๐”๐’๐“๐„๐‘ 2025 | ๐‚๐Ž๐”๐‘๐’๐„ ๐๐Ž๐“๐„๐’ ๐–๐ˆ๐“๐‡ ๐•๐€๐๐ƒ๐˜ | ๐ƒ๐€๐˜ ๐Ÿ] What better way to preview the 2025 Gravel Muster course, than with the one and only @paulvanderplow . Vandy joined us in 2024 and rode every kilometre โ€“ so heโ€™s more than qualified to talk about the route. Here are the stats for Day 1: ๐Ÿ‘‰ 4km Prologue (Alice Springs) ๐Ÿ‘‰ 47km, Simpsons Gap Loop (Alice Springs to Alice Springs) + Sunset Beers ๐Ÿ‘‰ 1 racing segment, totaling 17km ๐Ÿ‘‰ 280m of climbing Stay tuned for Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4. More details here: ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/3VjaxbV

Heโ€™s BACK! 6 time Odyssey champion, Chris โ€œJ-Bloodโ€ Jongawaard has confirmed heโ€™ll be racing the 100KM event again this Feb. And when you look at his track record, you might wonder โ€œWHY?!โ€... Surely heโ€™s achieved enough in cycling to sit back, relax and enjoy some less painful pursuits. But, according to Chris: โ€œ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘˜๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ฅ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘ : โ€“ ๐ถ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  โ€“ ๐‘…๐‘œ๐‘Ž๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ โ€“ ๐‘‡๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก 1-๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ โ€“ ๐‘‰๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘‚๐‘ก๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘…๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ โ€ Truth be toldโ€ฆ We think heโ€™s not-so-secretly thinking thereโ€™s another win left in those experienced legs. And itโ€™s certainly not out of the question... Last year, Chris finished 11th โ€“ just 10 mins 55 seconds off the record-breaking pace of Tali Lane-Welsh (not bad over ~5 hours of racing). Could he be poised to teach the young-guns a lesson in 2025? DETAILS AND ENTRIES HERE: โžก๏ธ https://bit.ly/41mTj1o @jbloodadventures

โ€œ๐ถโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ฆโ€ฆโ€ Kephren Izzard isnโ€™t just a strong athlete (the week before we shot this he was competing in the World Cross Triathlon Championships!) โ€ฆ Heโ€™s also got an infectious laugh and positivity that made him an absolute asset at the first-ever Shimano Gravel Muster. If youโ€™re thinking about coming to the Muster 2025, heโ€™s got some great intel (including valuable advice on bikes). Check out the video to learn moreโ€ฆ

TRAI RUNNERS - good news: The XTERRA Asia-Pacific Trail Run Championship will be hosted in AUSTRALIA in 2025. BETTER: Itโ€™s happening in DUNSBOROUGH โ€“ one of the most stunning coastal trail areas in the world (even the locals behind The Margaret River Region page said โ€œthis is still our favourite place to spend summerโ€) EVEN BETTER: There are 3 distances to choose from: 38km, 21km and 10km trail running events (plus off-road triathlons of varying distances) so, thereโ€™s something for all ages and level of fitness. BEST: Thereโ€™s a US $5,200 prize pool for the 38km & 21km trail runs (US $35,000 across the weekend!) โ€“ making it the richest trail running race in Australia! So, if you like the idea of challenging yourself surrounded by nature... And need an excuse to visit paradise... This is it! Link in Bio

Ella Bloorโ€ฆ You might have seen her racing at the pointy end of the Lifetime Grand Prix in 2023โ€ฆ Or crossing the line of Unbound in an impressive 28th position this yearโ€ฆ Or maybe you saw her riding SOLO across Australia (4,000km from Perth to Sydney) in an impressively small number of days earlier in 2024โ€ฆ But what you might not have seen is that, as soon as Ella finished her trans-continental push... She jumped straight on a plane for Alice Springs for the inaugural Shimano Gravel Muster Stage Race (which she won convincingly). We were honoured to have such a decorated and accomplished two-wheeled adventurer at the Muster. Check out the video to hear about @ella.bloor's experience in the red centre. More info about Gravel Muster here: https://bit.ly/3VjaxbV More info about Ella's trans-Australia trip here: https://flowmountainbike.com/features/ella-bloor-perth-to-sydney/

๐„๐๐“๐‘๐ˆ๐„๐’ ๐…๐Ž๐‘ ๐“๐‡๐„ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ ๐’๐‡๐ˆ๐Œ๐€๐๐Ž ๐†๐‘๐€๐•๐„๐‹ ๐Œ๐”๐’๐“๐„๐‘ ๐Ž๐๐„๐ ๐๐„๐—๐“ ๐Œ๐Ž๐๐ƒ๐€๐˜ (๐Ÿ—๐ญ๐ก ๐ƒ๐ž๐œ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ)! If youโ€™re an adventurous cyclist looking for something biggerโ€ฆ more wildโ€ฆ and more social than your average bike raceโ€ฆ "IT'LL LEAVE YOU TIRED, DUSTY AND BEGGING TO GET OUT THERE AND DO IT AGAIN!" (as one rider from the 2024 event said). Here are 6 "top level" facts to help you prepare: 1) ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐›๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐€๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’๐ญ๐ก ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ 2) ๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐€๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐’๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ but takes you DEEP into the desert for the middle 2 days (staying on iconic cattle stations)โ€ฆ 3) This year, ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐š๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ (we have no idea how quickly theyโ€™ll fill, so safest bet is to get in early) 4) There will be some ๐›๐ข๐  ๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ coming (stay tuned to learn who) 5) This is an two-wheeled adventure NOT to be missedโ€ฆ As Richie Porte said after the 2024 event: โ€œ๐‘ฐ๐’• ๐’˜๐’‚๐’” ๐’”๐’–๐’„๐’‰ ๐’‚๐’ ๐’‚๐’˜๐’†๐’”๐’๐’Ž๐’† 4 ๐’…๐’‚๐’š๐’”.. ๐‘บ๐’–๐’„๐’‰ ๐’‚ ๐’ˆ๐’๐’๐’… ๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’˜ ๐’๐’‡ ๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’‘๐’๐’†โ€ฆ ๐’Š๐’•โ€™๐’” ๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’† ๐’‹๐’–๐’”๐’• ๐’•๐’ ๐’”๐’Š๐’• ๐’“๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‰๐’‚๐’—๐’† ๐’‚ ๐’‡๐’†๐’˜ ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐’‚๐’‡๐’•๐’†๐’“ ๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐’“๐’Š๐’…๐’†๐’”.๐’ ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’“๐’‚๐’Š๐’ ๐’‰๐’‚๐’” ๐’‹๐’–๐’”๐’• ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’†๐’ ๐’‚๐’˜๐’†๐’”๐’๐’Ž๐’†โ€ฆ ๐‘ฐโ€™๐’—๐’† ๐’‰๐’‚๐’… ๐’‚ ๐’ƒ๐’‚

Richie Porte chats about his Shimano Gravel Muster experience...
Richie Porte chats about his Shimano Gravel Muster experience...

โ€œ๐ผ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ โ„Ž ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘กโ€ โ€“ Richie Porte Itโ€™s not everyday you get to ride next to one of the GOATS of Aussie cycling for 4-days straight. Itโ€™s even rarer to get to dine, chill and share a beer with them beside an outback pool. Yet, thatโ€™s exactly what we were treated to at the 2024 Gravel Muster when Richie Porte jumped at the opportunity to ride. Not only did he impress onlookers with a few turns of speed on the front... He's also just an awesome, down to earth bloke who was a heap of fun to hang out with. Check out the video to hear about his experience at the Muster. Once youโ€™ve done thatโ€ฆ ๐‘๐„๐Œ๐ˆ๐๐ƒ๐„๐‘: ๐„๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ก๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐จ ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง ๐Œ๐จ๐ง๐๐š๐ฒ ๐š๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ฉ. There are only 100 spots. So, if you want an experience like no other, we highly recommend you get ready to enter asap. ALL DETAILS HERE: https://bit.ly/3VjaxbV The Rapid Ascent Team ๐.๐’. Rumour has it weโ€™ll be greeted with ANOTHER member of Aussie cycling royalty in 2025. Any guesses who?

๐„๐๐“๐‘๐ˆ๐„๐’ ๐…๐Ž๐‘ ๐“๐‡๐„ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ ๐’๐‡๐ˆ๐Œ๐€๐๐Ž ๐†๐‘๐€๐•๐„๐‹ ๐Œ๐”๐’๐“๐„๐‘ ๐Ž๐๐„๐ ๐๐„๐—๐“ ๐Œ๐Ž๐๐ƒ๐€๐˜ (๐Ÿ—๐ญ๐ก ๐ƒ๐ž๐œ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ)! And, if youโ€™re an adventurous cyclist looking for something biggerโ€ฆ more wildโ€ฆ and more social than your average bike raceโ€ฆ โ€œITโ€™LL LEAVE YOU TIRED, DUSTY AND BEGGING TO GET OUT THERE AND DO IT AGAIN!โ€ (as one rider from the 2024 event said). Here are 6 โ€œtop levelโ€ facts to help you prepare: 1) ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐›๐ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐€๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’๐ญ๐ก ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ 2) ๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐€๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐’๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ but takes you DEEP into the desert for the middle 2 days (staying on iconic cattle stations)โ€ฆ 3) This year, ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐š๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ (we have no idea how quickly theyโ€™ll fill, so safest bet is to get in early) 4) There will be some ๐›๐ข๐  ๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ coming (stay tuned to learn who) 5) This is an two-wheeled adventure NOT to be missedโ€ฆ As Richie Porte said after the 2024 event: โ€œ๐‘ฐ๐’• ๐’˜๐’‚๐’” ๐’”๐’–๐’„๐’‰ ๐’‚๐’ ๐’‚๐’˜๐’†๐’”๐’๐’Ž๐’† 4 ๐’…๐’‚๐’š๐’”.. ๐‘บ๐’–๐’„๐’‰ ๐’‚ ๐’ˆ๐’๐’๐’… ๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’˜ ๐’๐’‡ ๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’‘๐’๐’†โ€ฆ ๐’Š๐’•โ€™๐’” ๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’† ๐’‹๐’–๐’”๐’• ๐’•๐’ ๐’”๐’Š๐’• ๐’“๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‰๐’‚๐’—๐’† ๐’‚ ๐’‡๐’†๐’˜ ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐’‚๐’‡๐’•๐’†๐’“ ๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐’“๐’Š๐’…๐’†๐’”.๐’ ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’“๐’‚๐’Š๐’ ๐’‰๐’‚๐’” ๐’‹๐’–๐’”๐’• ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’†๐’ ๐’‚๐’˜๐’†๐’”๐’๐’Ž๐’†โ€ฆ ๐‘ฐโ€™๐’—๐’† ๐’‰๐’‚๐’… ๐’‚

Most experienced riders donโ€™t think about the Odyssey as one, 100km raceโ€ฆ They think about it as THREE separate stages (you just ride them back-to-back without stopping!). Those stages are: 1๏ธโƒฃ ๐’๐“๐€๐†๐„ ๐Ÿ: ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐Š๐š๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐  ๐‹๐ž๐  ๐’๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ Distance: 43.60km | Elevation Gain: 1,252m | Lowest Elev: 167m | Highest Elev: 517m | Elev Difference: 350m 2๏ธโƒฃ ๐’๐“๐€๐†๐„ ๐Ÿ: ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐˜๐š๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐‡๐ฒ๐ฉ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ Distance: 34.01km | Elevation Gain: 674m | Lowest Elev: 154m | Highest Elev: 242m | Elev Difference: 88m 3๏ธโƒฃ ๐’๐“๐€๐†๐„ ๐Ÿ‘: ๐Ž๐ง๐ž ๐“๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐“๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง Distance: 22.88km | Elevation Gain: 752m | Lowest Elev: 158m | Highest Elev: 556m | Elev Difference: 398m For a detailed description of each of the 3 โ€œstagesโ€ (and links to the Strava segments), check out our article here: ๐Ÿ‘‰https://mailchi.mp/rapidascent/are-you-ready-to-conquer-the-odyssey-1847263?e=[UNIQID] REMINDER: Early Bird Pricing for Odyssey and Great Otway Gravel Grind ends December 1st (less than 2 weeks!). If youโ€™re planning on racing, go here and enter now: https://bit.ly/3CaIe8S The Rapid Ascent Team P.S. If you've been following our series about climb/descent/bump/root of the course, stay tuned. There's more to come.

Noonday Track Climb - Virtual Reccy
Noonday Track Climb - Virtual Reccy

[OTWAY ODYSSEY 100KM COURSE NOTES | PART 2 | : NOONDAY TRACK] ๐ŸŽถ ๐ฝ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘Ž๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆโ€ฆ๐ŸŽถ Wow โ€“ even in writing you can hear weโ€™re tone deaf! Good news is, what we lack in musical talent, we make up for in designing leg-tickling MTB courses. And, in the 100km Odyssey course, Noonday Track certainly adds a bit of "tickle". With a 2.33km length and an average gradient of 10.5%, itโ€™s shorter than Kaanglang, but it has teethโ€ฆ After a 6-10 minute descent from the high point, your pins will be stiff and full of lactic by the time Noonday strikes. And, if youโ€™re in the hurt box at this point in the race, youโ€™ll be looking for excuses to bail entirely by kilometer 50! (PROPER PACING IS YOUR FRIEND). Two riders who paced it to perfection last year were Samara Sheppard and Tali Lane-Welsh. Both took out the Strava KOMs โ€“ Tali with a time of 10 min 21 seconds at an average of 406W, and Samara Sheppard with 13 mins 20 seconds at 254Wโ€ฆ Both also held on to have impressive overall performances (Tali with the win and Samara with a 4th place). If youโ€™ve got tips or stories about Noonday โ€“ we want to hear โ€˜em. ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ. Strava segment here: ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://www.strava.com/segments/666345 More info about Odyssey here: ๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/3CaIe8S Stay tuned for more course notes to come.

"๐ท๐‘œ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’?!" Watching this "stinger" from the Search4hurt got us excited all over again for XTERRA racing in Dunsborough. The team did a whole episode (Ep 5) during the 2024 event and it's well worth a gander (www.7plus.com.au/search4hurt). Remember: This year, the Dunsborough stop on the XTERRA circuit is going to be bigger and more grand than ever before. That's because โ€“ for the first time ever โ€“ it's been named as the XTERRA Asia Pacific Championships! So... If you're an adventurous soul, triathlete or trail runner, make sure you get yourself an entry: โžก๏ธ https://www.xterraplanet.com/event/xterra-australia

Can someone PLEASE teleport us to the 15th November already?! Here's what's happening: 1) ๐‘๐ฎ๐ง ๐๐ข๐›๐›๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง ๐“๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ค ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐‘๐š๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ on ๐ง๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก (15th-17th November). 2) ๐ˆ๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข-๐๐š๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ž (so you can really get immersed in the adventure). 3) ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž'๐ฌ ๐š ๐‹๐จ๐ง๐  ๐€๐๐ƒ ๐’๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง (Long = ~35km per day, Short = ~20km per day). 4) ๐ˆ๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐š ๐›๐ž๐š๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  (along one of Australia's famous, multi-day, walking tracks โ€“ The Bubbulmun Track โ€“ traversing the ruggedly pristine coastline of Great Southern WA). 5) ๐ˆ๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ“% ๐’๐Ž๐‹๐ƒ ๐Ž๐”๐“. (there are a handful of spaces left after some recent withdrawals due to injury) 6) ๐–๐ž'๐ซ๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‘๐€ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ž. Can't wait to spend the weekend with these awesome runners. If you're a "last minute" kinda adventurer looking for a running experience/holiday like no other, there's still time to join us. Get all the details and enter here: https://bit.ly/3NANUeV

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Rapid Ascent Adventure Sports Event Management

Regarded as Australiaโ€™s leading adventure sports event management company, Rapid Ascent organises off-road, adventure and niche sports events across Australia ranging from mass participation adventure races (the worldโ€™s largest!) to boutique mountain bike festivals and unique trail running events. We conceive and host our own events and also offer other organisations and brands custom event management services (see further down for more details).

Rapid Ascent currently hosts a number of major events across adventure racing, multisport, mountain biking and trail running disciplines. In addition, we are also contracted to manage the logistics for several other events including the Mother's Day Classic Geelong and the Coastrek Series. And we always have more adventure event ideas bubbling away in the background.

Importantly, our races and events are about much more that the sports we happen to love, theyโ€™re about appreciating the great outdoors, promoting environmental awareness, healthy lifestyles, community participation and creating a friendly festival atmosphere for everyone.