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With a three-second victory at Stromlo Forest Park, Canberra’s Rosemary Barnes secured herself the Elite Women’s series title on the weekend’s fifth round of the Australian Gravity Enduro Mountain Bike Series. Local favourite Ben Cory took out the Elite Men’s win ahead of Dan MacMunn from Victoria, who defended his series lead and will have to go up against his closest contender for the overall win, Simon Buzacott from South Australia, in the final series event at in Cairns this October.

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Big news came in today. Course maps and details for the Big Mountain Enduro Crested Butte, Colorado Ultra Enduro have been released into the wild. The race, the first of it’s kind in the US, starts Wednesday morning and continues through Sunday. This race will also mark the return of international enduro star Jerome Clementz to racing. Curtis Keene will also be in attendance, as well as a huge cast of characters with international and Enduro World Series race experience. Expect to see Marco Osborne, Nate Hills, Chris Johnston of Nomads fame, Ben Cruz, Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski and Heather Irmiger. Enduro Mountainbike Magazine will be on site for the whole shebang, posting daily updates with lots of killer photos. Check back every day to see who is flying, and who is crashing. This is going to be one brutal race, with over 100 miles of total pedaling, and altitudes over 12,000 feet.

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The last day or stage of any race always requires a big push, one last effort to get you through, today was no different. Ali had planned two massive stages with two equally as massive liaisons! Word on the street is that stage one is going to be the toughest yet. He said it was going to be a great day just out riding your bike with mates, it turned out to be more pushing and carrying than riding...

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In summary today, I struggled with fatigue and rode like a lemon. In actual fact I may be being a little bit harsh, I managed the day without hitting the deck, I only did one running leap off of my bike and I tripped over less today than on other days! The sun was beating down, hotter than yesterday as we moved from Bozel to Beaufort, base camp was relocating so our stages today took us from one...

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