What has Uganda, Vietnam, East Germany, Cambodia, and Ireland have in common? It was a Sunday morning like any other. I had arranged to go out for bike ride out with Andreas, a guy living and working here in Cambodia. We had met a month before hand, when he joined us on our epic three [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cambodia’
Declan – Making the world a small place
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Cambodia, Declan O'Toole MHM, Kotido, Mountain biking, Uganda on July 9, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Kep keeps mountain bikers on their toes
Posted in Races, Running around the World, tagged Cambodia, Cambodia Mountain Bike Series 2011, Kep, Kep National Park, Mountain biking, Round 2 on May 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Round 2 of the Cambodia Mountain Biking Series brought us to the coastal town of Kep. What with the course being a 3 hour drive from Phnom Penh, it provided the ideal chance for a fun weekend away by the sea. I knew the course would be fast and furious. There are precious few technical [...]
Multi-day Mountain Biking in the Cardamom Mountains
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Adventure, Cambodia, Cardamom Mountains, Forest camping, Koh Kong, Mountain biking, Multi-day on May 17, 2011 | 86 Comments »
When Dirk suggested a 4 day mountain biking trip to Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, I couldn’t say no. Being in a constant state of mountain deprivation in flat Cambodia, it was finally a chance to go do some proper hills. In the end, five of us agreed to join: Belgian man Dirk, Geoff from UK, Andreas [...]
Half Marathon Fundraiser in Kep, Cambodia
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Bridges across Borders, Cambodia, Kep Half Marathon, Kep Trio on March 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I only found out about the half marathon a week before it happened. I was planning to head down to Cambodia’s coastline anyhow for a long weekend of relaxation. “Ah, so you’ll be down there for the Kep Half Marathon”, a running friend said. Now there are not that many races in Cambodia that you [...]
Barred from Bokor Mountain
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Bokor Mountain, Cambodia, Kampot, Kayaking, Mountain Running on February 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I’m always desperately trying to find mountains to run up and down here in Cambodia. So, after asking a few regular runners in Phnom Penh (albeit it road runners), I discovered that Bokor Mountain was a potential option. Bokor Mountain, at 1079 metres, is around 3 hours’ drive south of Phnom Penh. The Ultimate Cambodia [...]
Mountain Biking on Mekong Island
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Cambodia, Mekong Island, Mountain biking, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh Wheelers, Sabay Cycling Group on February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So far, I know two mountain biking routes out of Phnom Penh. One goes North. The other goes South. So when I got the Sabay Cycling group email suggesting mountain biking to the East of Phnom Penh, I had to take them up on the offer. The Sabay Cycling Group has just been formed in [...]
Mountain Biking around Phnom Penh
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Cambodia, Cambodian Red Cross, Killing Fields, Mountain biking, Phnom Penh on February 5, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been taking some time off from running lately, so have been out and about mountain biking instead. Not that Cambodia has many mountains to go biking on. But there’s a few guys that head out on their mountain bikes on the weekends to ride the flat dirt roads in and out of Phnom Penh. [...]
Finding hills in Cambodia – Kep National Park
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Cambodia, Kep, Kep National Park, Rabbit Island, Trail Running on January 11, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Living on the flood plains on the banks of the Mekong River can severely limit hill running options – it’s as flat as a pancake in Cambodia’s capital city. So I was pretty excited when we planned a weekend away, to the town of Kep on the coast near Viet Nam. Friends who I had [...]
Mountain Bike Racing in Kirirom, Cambodia
Posted in Running around the World, tagged Cambodia, Kirirom, Mountain biking, Race on December 17, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I was no sooner back from New Zealand than I was off mountain bike racing last weekend in Kirirom, in South West Cambodia. I had always been under the impression that Cambodia is flat. But apparently it has a few hills around the place, some of which are a 2 hour drive from the capital, [...]
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