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Mountain Biking in Cool Kirirom

Posted in Running around the World, tagged , , , , , on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Kirirom is a 700 metre high hill in Kampong Speu Province, 2 hours’ drive from Phnom Penh. Geoff was in town, and we wanted to show him a good time, so we headed straight for the hill. Kirirom is synonymous with mountain bikers for its wicked forest single track. It’s also the venue for annual [...]

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Biking in and around Cambodia

Posted in Running around the World, tagged , , , , , , on December 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Despite this blog being called “Running over Mountains and Around the World”, I’ve been a bit lax lately in fulfilling its mandate. I’ve been doing hardly any running. And I’ve been up very few mountains recently. Instead, I’ve been spending my time doing loads of biking in different forms. In October I cycled down to [...]

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Declan – Making the world a small place

Posted in Running around the World, tagged , , , , on July 9, 2011 | 5 Comments »

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 [...]

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Kep keeps mountain bikers on their toes

Posted in Races, Running around the World, tagged , , , , , 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 [...]

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Multi-day Mountain Biking in the Cardamom Mountains

Posted in Running around the World, tagged , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Mountain Biking on Mekong Island

Posted in Running around the World, tagged , , , , , 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 [...]

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Mountain Biking around Phnom Penh

Posted in Running around the World, tagged , , , , 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. [...]

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Mountain Bike Racing in Kirirom, Cambodia

Posted in Running around the World, tagged , , , 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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Bumps and Bites from my weekend Jungle Adventure

Posted in Races, Running around the World, tagged , , , , , on March 2, 2010 | 6 Comments »

There’s that itch again. I look down. There’s a ring of red raw lumpy mounds on both of my shins. And they seem to be pulsating. I must have got them from that 3 hour “jungle run” in the middle of the night, the starting leg of the Magadui Trophy adventure race. Last weekend I [...]

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