{"id":71909,"date":"2014-04-25T22:41:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T12:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flowmountainbike.com\/?p=71909"},"modified":"2014-04-25T22:41:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T12:41:10","slug":"racing-english-and-fay-claim-tablelands-classic-xcm-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flowmountainbike.com\/post-all\/racing-english-and-fay-claim-tablelands-classic-xcm-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing: English and Fay Claim Tablelands Classic XCM Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">24-hour world champion Jason English (NSW) and Irish national champion Jenny Fay\u00a0claimed the Tablelands Classic, the fourth round of the Real Insurance Cross Country Marathon (XCM) Series, on a wet and muddy day in the forested Atherton Tablelands.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">English overcame Canadian National Marathon Champion Cory Wallace for the top spot on the elite male podium, while\u00a0Jeff Rubach (QLD) finished third.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8220;The conditions out there were unbelievable. I have never run out of brake pads before in a race and halfway through this race I was slipping and sliding all over the place. It was a balance between trying to push the limit, push the boundary, push the tyres and see what you can do to keep this gap whilst trying to stay upright.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flowmountainbike.com\/?attachment_id=71906\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71906\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71906\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/media.flowmountainbike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/05171250\/AnZ8b9DUCq5FUrZwKHrw2DaINw3QlNGRJIBnRVjOMrA.jpeg\" alt=\"AnZ8b9DUCq5FUrZwKHrw2DaINw3QlNGRJIBnRVjOMrA\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">In the elite women&#8217;s race, Fay\u00a0built on a dominant lead after Australian Marathon Champion Melissa Anset (VIC) suffered a flat tyre on the first lap. Sarah Riley (VIC) claimed second place with Anset recovering to round out the podium.\u00a0The result leaves\u00a0the Irish and Australian XCM champions with two wins each as the final round in the series approaches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m doing the European marathon champs in Ireland in June so this was a good test to see how I rolled over mud. I just need to change my tyres but other than that there is nothing much you can do. It&#8217;s just about being smooth and relaxed and capitalising on the drier sections when you can and keeping it conservative in the muddy sections.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flowmountainbike.com\/post-all\/racing-english-and-fay-claim-tablelands-classic-xcm-marathon\/attachment\/xtdknywb-prlzkau2qanvdddwffj428zwmwy657ish4tcqgujba2hkkjl8onubvasf8nmlfwncjlcvzbf7mjl4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71912\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71912\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/media.flowmountainbike.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/05170004\/XtdkNywB-PRlzkAU2QANvDddWfFj428ZwmWy657iSh4TCQGuJBa2HKkjl8oNubvasf8nMlfWNCJLcVzbf7MJL4.jpeg\" alt=\"XtdkNywB-PRlzkAU2QANvDddWfFj428ZwmWy657iSh4,TCQGuJBa2HKkjl8oNubvasf8nMlfWNCJLcVzbf7MJL4\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The Tablelands Classic is just the start of an action packed long weekend of mountain biking in Far North Queensland, with the downhill qualifying and cross country eliminator finals kicking off the racing at the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup at the Smithfield Regional Park near Cairns today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The World Cup event thinned the elite male field at Atherton, with Australian XCM Champion\u00a0Andrew Blair and teammate Shaun Lewis, who came second in the National XCM Championships, skipping the Tablelands Classic to focus\u00a0on the World Cup Cross Country Olympic (XCO) event\u00a0instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Not all riders have been as selective\u00a0this weekend,\u00a0with\u00a0today&#8217;s\u00a0podium finishers Riley and Wallace\u00a0electing\u00a0to back up today&#8217;s race and\u00a0take on the World Cup Cross Country course in the Smithfield Rainforest this\u00a0Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">A minute of silence was observed before the Atherton race where over 140 riders took to the course, all wearing commemorative ribbons for ANZAC day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Some took on the full marathon, racing three laps of the course (66 kilometres), while those completing the half marathon covered 44 kilometres (two laps).<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The course delivered plenty of single-track, traverses, bushland, rainforest and grasslands and in better weather conditions picturesque climbs and flowing descents, with the challenging conditions forcing many riders to abandon before the finish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The Real Insurance series concludes on May 3 with the Convict 100 in St Albans, NSW.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24-hour world champion Jason English (NSW) and Irish national champion Jenny Fay\u00a0claimed the Tablelands Classic, the fourth round of the Real Insurance Cross Country Marathon (XCM) Series, on a wet and muddy day in the forested Atherton Tablelands. 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