XC racing is no longer a few laps of a field. Those are real rocks!
Nino Schurter is known as one of the most technically adept cross country racers these days. Cross country has become more and more technical over the years, where shorter loops are raced at high intensity with no chance of recovery.
It might look silly, but you’ve got to do some of this…and this……to achieve some of this
As well as working on his cycling skills and his fitness, Nino has a punishing program of gym work to keep him in top shape through the winter. It’s not just weights – it’s all sorts of bonkers multi-stressing exercises designed to work the core, mind, co-ordination and recovery. Try it sometime, eh?
With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)
Yikes
I’ve just done TWO circuits exactly like this – Then I woke up and had my Weetabix.
Who’s this Noneno? Was he not the wee robot in Ulysses 2086?
Good grief!
Respect. Mines a pint.