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FULL SUS regular contributor, Di Carolin is in Cairns for the UCI MTB World Champs. Here’s her first hand report on the Men’s U23 XCO race Pinch me! Yep! I can’t believe it but I was standing on the side of the XCO course in Cairns at the UCI U23 […]
Words by Diana Carolin | @di_carolin In preparation for Masters Marathon Champs at Cascades next weekend the Arabella Challenge seemed to be a perfect test of my form. Having raced only XCO the last three and a half moths the longer distances promised to be a challenge. Registration was quick […]
Ladies, if you love riding your bike and want to improve your skills then you really should be doing XCO, writes Diana Carolin from the first SA Cup race of the season in Mankele. Cross Country is seen as too hard and scary by most female riders. Honestly, it is […]
Di Carolin and Lolita Van Aardt are racing the 2015 Lesotho Sky stage race for Full Sus and Di will be supplying daily reports from the Mountain Kingdom for www.fullsus.co.za. Follow the race here or on social media on these platforms: Facebook: Full Sus | Lesotho Sky Twitter: @LesothoSky | @FullSussa | @di_carolin
By: Di Carolin | @di_carolin Saturday dawned cloudy and wet and I almost rolled over and went back to sleep. But I managed to drag myself to my car, load my bike and set off for Grabouw, my favourite training ground. I couldn’t wait to see what they had done […]
Sus the Imana Wild Ride Report by: Diana Carolin – @di_carolin Dates: 1 – 6 August 2015 Where: Eastern Cape Wild Coast Race Website: www.imanawildride.co.za Imana Wild Ride is a legendary event that has been going for almost two decades! There is no marked route so it is an event […]
After having ridden my first season of XCO it turned out that SA Champs was to be held in Stellenbosch at the same course that we had had WP Champs. But the track had a few sections added to it namely the rock garden, a super steep rock drop, a […]
“Ooh look its 5 degrees”” said Theresa as we were driving to Van Gaalen Cheese Farm. I looked over at the dash board and did a double take. “T, Its 0.5 degrees!” I said. Never in my life have I been so cold at the start of a race. the […]
What a fantastic day we had on Saturday, writes Diana Carolin. Perfect weather conditions and a great turnout at the Coetzenburg XCO track in Stellies. Thanks so much to Novus Holdings, Paarl Media, Subaru, Giant, Cadence Nutrition and all the other sponsors that made this event possible. It was the […]
What drives us to get on a mountain bike and start pedalling? Di Carolin is sure that each of you has your own reason. But for her first column about what it’s really like to be a lady on the mountain, here we go. I had just turned 35; I […]
