James Pretto and Elizabeth Dorman paddled to victory on the 155km course from the mountain township of Marysville into Melbourne’s Yarra’s Edge at the Docklands in one of the most challenging point-to-point endurance races in Australia.

UPDATE @ 9:30pmAEST. Entries to the premier Augusta Adventure race have just sold out with 850 entries and 1789 competitors entering in 9.5 hrs to fill the main race. Entries to the August Mini and Junior Survivor are still open, as with all races at Lorne.

As a way of supporting and encouraging sports clubs to be involved with the M2M, we will be offering a CASH REBATE back to any club who enters an individual or team in the 2013 event.

A smile leapt onto my face the other day when I was looking down the M2M entry list and saw that the Tuesday Night Parma’s had entered M2M for a third year in a row. With this much race cred, and a team name like that, I just had to get in touch and ask them a few questions for the benefit of all of us. Here is their (funny) story…

He’s one of the new poster boys of international mountain biking and he’s just returned from racing the Super-D Series of gravity XC races in North America and now he’s coming to Bike Buller to have another go at this revolutionary event. We recently caught up with Josh Carlson to ask him about racing overseas and what he thinks of the Bike Buller format now he’s a man of the world.

Riders beware – Australia’s ultimate MTB marathon, the Kona Odyssey, is looking to be set alight by one of the fastest women around come February 16th, 2013.