Event Overview
When: 25th to 29th May 2009
Where: Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
Format: 7 stage MTB race over 5 days
The Anaconda MTB Enduro - Red Centre gives you five days of some of the most awesome mountain biking in Australia along the sweet single tracks and dusty trails of the mighty MacDonnell Ranges around Alice Springs in the red centre of Australia.
The Anaconda MTB Enduro - Red Centre is all about racing some good miles on your bike and then kicking back around the pool with new and old friends afterwards. Its about riding in a truly awesome location, where the tectonic lines of the grand old MacDonnell’s disappear into a distant horizon, with big blue skies, rolling single track and the majesty of the desert. It’s a place that has to be seen to be believed.
- Seven stages of racing over five days, ranging from a 45sec hill sprint in the middle of town to a 90km epic through the majestic Eastern MacDonnell Ranges
- Multi day stage race without multi day logistics – all race days start and finish within rolling distance of Alice Springs, no rental car or support crew necessary (we’ll even pick you up at the airport!)
- Race in the morning then kick back and party on by the pool in the afternoon – yeah baby.
- Choose to stay in the appointed event hotel with negotiated rates and full event centre including bike servicing & cleaning, massage, daily photo slide shows, food, entertainment and nightly presentations
If you thought the outback was full of sand and corrugations you’re wrong, this is single track heaven with endless blue skies and dusty smiles. Check out the 2008 PROMO VIDEO for a taste of sweetness - click here
[The Anaconda MTB Enduro was formally called The Bullrider until Anaconda kindly took naming rights sponsorship of the event - none of the features of the event have changed. It is also the reincarnation of the Central Australian Bike Challenge that was last held 2 years ago but with many new aspects brought to this old favourite]
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Anaconda MTB Enduro – Red Centre. Enter now at last year’s prices(Posted 7/10/2008)
As some of you may have noticed, entries for the 2009 Anaconda MTB Enduro (Red Centre) have just opened. Based in and around Alice Springs, Northern Territory, and traversing 300-odd kilometres of largely custom built mountain bike trails, this event should be the first week blocked out of your 2009 calendars. The event runs from May 25th-29th next year and a strict field limit of 250 (which was nearly reached in its rebirth earlier this year !) applies. Click here for full story ...Anaconda MTB Enduro – Red Centre. 2009 Dates Announced(Posted 16/08/2008)
The 5 day, 7-stage Anaconda MTB Enduro held in Alice Springs each year will be back better than ever in 2009, with the dates being announced as 25th-29th May. For those who raced this year or who have spoken to those who have, the 7 stages are likely to be similar to the fantastic course of the 2008 event. The only changes are likely to be the inclusion of some new single track to avoid any repetition, and a shortening of the longest stage of the race by about 10km. Save yourself money by ... Click here for full story ...Team Flight Centre podium at BC Bike Race(Posted 10/07/2008)
Hot on the heels of a winning performance at Anaconda’s MTB Enduro in Alice Springs Australians Tim Bennett and Adrian Jackson (Team Flight Centre) powered through 7 days of stage racing to snag third place overall in Canada’s BC Bike Race .The pairing were at their absolute blazing best on day two’s fast and undulating 124km stage where they fully opened the taps to take line honors. Click here for full story ...Racing for charity and HIV awareness(Posted 29/05/2008)
Deanna Blegg and Jarad Kohlar from Peak Adventure are at the forefront of adventure racing in Australia. An important and personally significant cause has brought this team together to race for charity to bring the attention of the world community to the realities of the HIV/ AIDS epidemic. Through adventure racing in Australia and internationally they hope to achieve the exposure, support and contributions necessary to educate and prevent HIV/AIDS. Click here for full story ... Jackson and Smith victorious as the Anaconda MTB Enduro wraps up(Posted 23/05/2008)
Exhausted after completing 6 stages in 5 days, competitors used every last ounce of energy to finish the final Ultimate Ride Stage 7 today. Racing from scenic Telegraph Station with a unique start across the dry and sandy Ross River bed, most riders choose the safe option and ran their bikes across. 50km later they finished with a steep 150m hill climb to a lookout near the Power & Water water tank. Click here for full story ...Ay-up lights Stage 6 brings the field closer together(Posted 23/05/2008)
The Anaconda MTB Enduro is set for a thrilling finale in both the men's and women's races, with the Ay-up Stage 6 night race serving to compress the field. In the men's race, 2nd place General Classification rider Perren Delacour took out a thrilling bunch sprint by leading into the final corner, still some 300m out. Perren was the strongest rider of the evening though and none of the others could get around the seasoned ex-pro. Click here for full story ...The rugged terrain takes its toll in Stage 5 of the Anaconda MTB Enduro (Posted 22/05/2008)
Stage 5 started on another beautiful sunny morning at Alice Springs Golf Club at the base of the majestic MacDonnell Ranges at 9am. Most of the riders were fortunate enough to get a well deserved sleep in a after the marathon stage yesterday but it was the poor slowest riders that posted the longest times (up to 9 hours) yesterday that commenced the Stage 5 Individual Time Trial first. Starting with the person who has the slowest accrued time from the three days of racing and finishing with ... Click here for full story ...Marathon through the desert sorts the tough from the tourists in Stage 4(Posted 21/05/2008)
Stage 4 of the Anaconda MTB Enduro was an epic 95km marathon ride from Ross River Station back into the Heavy Tree Gap Outback Lodge in Alice Springs. Blood, sweat and tears were definitely all on the agenda for today’s stage that took winners nearly 4 hours and the back markers twice that. Arriving at the finish line muddy, dusty, thirsty and exhausted many competitors collapsed to the ground and quickly retreated to the pool for refreshment. Click here for full story ...Bloody Stage 3(Posted 20/05/2008)
Even before the starting siren this morning, riders were already bloody and bruised. Nicole Burton from WA was nursing three stitches in her forearm after stacking at speed yesterday in Stage 1. Nevertheless, with the front fork of her bike still blood stained, she joined bikers on the start line for Verofit Stage 3 with a smile on her face and ready to rumble! Click here for full story ...Stage 2: Let's Get Lactic(Posted 20/05/2008)
This afternoon’s stage involved a high intensity, anaerobic climb up Anzac Hill located right in the heart of town! Riders set off at 30 second intervals, at designated times determined by the results of this mornings first stage of the Anaconda MTB Enduro. The slowest finishers from this morning hammered up the incline first in what was described as a “balls to the wall hill climb" finishing at a gorgeous scenic look out at the peak. Click here for full story ...
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