Cait Elliott
Irish Elite Enduro Mountain Bike racer. Cycling and other adventures. Based in Zurich, Switzerland. I am also an architect. Follow @CaitElliott_mtbPersonal Sponsors
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WXC World Racing video – episode 1
WXC World Racing episode 1 – behind the scenes at the Dalby World Cup from Cait Elliott on Vimeo.
World Cup – Offenburg
After Dalby, team-mate Carla and I spent a few days sightseeing and training on beautiful flat, cold, windy roads around York before a major overnight roadtrip down to sunny Strasbourg (France) where the team would be based for the next … Continue reading
World Cup – Dalby Forest
Lungs, legs and head – 3 key elements to a good mountain bike race, if one of them is slightly below its par then the whole experience can change from being one of the best feelings ever to feeling like … Continue reading
Irish NPS – Tollymore
The fun began with a Thinkbike team pre-ride laughing and sliding our way around a brilliant course in Tollymore forest park. Tons of singletrack, lots of mud and roots, this was going to be good! I led into the first … Continue reading
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Biking Blitz Dublin
This weekend’s Biking Blitz race on Three Rock marked the opening of a new trail centre 20 minutes ride from my house in Dublin. It was a perfect, pressure free way to get back into racing after Spain and build … Continue reading
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British MBS – Dalby Forest
I seem to have hit a period of bad luck the last few weeks, beginning with extremely sore calve muscles as a result (or cause?) of a bad race in Sherwood that limited me to nothing harder than steady riding … Continue reading
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BMBS – Sherwood Pines
British MBS in Sherwood, the first international xc of the year, UCI c1 classified, lots of world class competition, bad day at the office. I had a bad start, didn’t get off fast enough and couldn’t pass enough people before … Continue reading
Leinster League 1 – Bunclody, Wexford
The first round of the Irish Leinster League xc races was a chance to shock my system into intensity having done nothing since Spain. Changes to race categories in Ireland this year has made bigger ability based fields to help … Continue reading
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Andalucía Bike Race – stage 6
Today I was on a mission to be the first female over the line and there was very little that was going to stop me. My legs felt tired but no worse than previous days, maybe even a bit better, … Continue reading
Andalucía Bike Race – stage 5
I have never felt less like going out on my bike as this morning, so much so that I saw someone out running on our way to the race and I could only wish that I had to run today … Continue reading