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27 March 2011
McAvoy and Hall hold on to win 2011 Terra Australis view..
Friday 25th March 2011
Yeti Gu win sixth stage of Terra Australis
Wall almost the first female stage winner view...
24 March 2011
The queen had her say
The Queen stage of the 2011 Terra Australis was a truly epic day in the saddle view...
23 March 2011
Time Trial, like the eye of a storm view...
March 22nd
Stage 3: Brutal day at Terra Australis
Age was no barrier for the stage 3 victors at Terra Australis
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Monday, 21 March 2011
McAvoy and Hall consolidate their terra lead with convincing stage 2 victory. view...
20th March
Canberra pairing of McAvoy and Hall claim stage one of 2011 Terra view...
30th November 2010
Check out T3, the new three day race as part of the 2011 Terra Australis view...
12th October 2010
World Champion Jess Douglas to ride the 2011 Terra
23rd September 2010
You can now check out who is going to be on the start line for the 2011 Terra. view...
16th Sept 2010
A comprehensive list of all riders for the 2011 event will be up on the website soon..
3rd September 2010
Stephen Brady from Alice Springs was the lucky winner of the Apple ipad competition.
1st June 2010
Registrations are open for the 2011 Terra Australia. Get in early to take advantage of the early bird price and the all inclusive package.
10th May 2010
Dates have been set for the 2011 Terra Australis. Lock in Sunday 20th March to Saturday 26th March 2011
9th April 2010
Dates for the 2011 Terra Australis will be announced at the end of April 2010. Stay tuned to this website for more information.
5th January 2010
Mark Fenner’s 12 week training program will get you in shape for Terra 2010
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15th December 2009
Terra Video now online
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14th April, 2009
Terra Australis event photo CD's (with 460 pics on the CD) are available for $50 from Bicycle Photosview...
5th April, 2009
For a complete package of the 2009 Terra Australis results of all 7 stages, plus the overall series placings by Category and General Classificationview...
2 April, 2009
Race Photos updated in Photo Gallery
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1 April, 2009
Race results posted on Terra Australis website
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1 April, 2009
Terra Australis photos from Russ Bakerr
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“It is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves” - Sir Edmund Hillary
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McAvoy and Hall hold on to win 2011 Terra Australis
27 March 2011
Check Out Stage 3 TA 2011 Images
Canberra pair Jason McAvoy and Andrew Hall have held on in a highly competitive final stage of the 2011 Terra Australis to record a fantastic victory in their first attempt at the event.
The stage was won by the Adam Kelly and Simon Easy (BSS Rangas) who dominated on the singletrack around Beechworth to record their first stage victory of the event. The red heads from Red Hill have been very consistent all week and their stage victory was a popular victory amongst the rest of the competitors. The village of Beechworth has a rich cultural history and the bearded Adam Kelly could quite easily pass as a blood relative of his more famous namesake, Ned.
The final stage shaped as a crucial stage with three sections of singletrack and fast fire roads in between. Kelly and Easy rode the singletrack to perfection and were able to create and sustain such a significant breakaway that they moved into third in the overall general classification. Their main rivals, Team Brave (Brad Hawthorn and David Evenden) struggled on the singletrack and finished 13:56 behind the BSS Rangas, thus relegating them to 6th in the general classification. Rollin Thunder (Adrian Scott and Gavin Rumbles) moved ahead of Team Brave into 4th place and Team Torq (Mark Fenner and Jo Wall) moved into 5th.
The overall general classification winners, McAvoy and Hall rode strongly to hold their well deserved lead to finish 12:23 in front of Yeti Gu and BSS Rangas in third. The focus for McAvoy and Hall now moves to the National 24 Hour Championships.
The 2011 Terra Australis was a highly competitive event with four separate stage winners. The racing was on all week and the competitors battled through the first ever wet stage of the Terra as they circumnavigated Mount Buffalo. At the start of the week it was decided that each night a ‘harden up’ award would be presented. By the end of stage one the award had been renamed to ‘soften up’ such was the lengths that people were going to in order to get through.
Terra Australis is a tough race and for that reason not everyone can do it. Those that completed the event found it pushed them to and beyond their limits. The team format means that for some competitors they needed to push through when they would normally back off in order to maintain contact with their teammate. The camaraderie amongst the competitors once again defined the event with many tales of people lending assistance and equipment to other competitors.