Fitness

9 tips to help you power through an extreme mountain bike race

SA is famous for having some of the world's best endurance races. Mountain biker Sandy Maytham-Bailey reveals how to train for, and enjoy, this type of taxing event

21 July 2019 - 00:00 By Claire Keeton

Art framer and photographer Sandy Maytham-Bailey was the only woman brave enough to enter and finish a 2,300km mountain-bike race this month known as the Race Across SA (RASA): The Freedom Challenge. ..

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