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4 days ago

If you are a "Last-minute-Larry" waiting for the 11th hour to enter the Odyssey or GOGG..

NOW IS THE TIME!

๐‹๐š๐ญ๐ž-๐…๐ž๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐Ÿ“๐๐Œ, ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐“๐‡ ๐Ž๐… ๐…๐„๐ (๐ง๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ ๐Œ๐จ๐ง๐๐š๐ฒ).

(Entering now also really helps us with event preparations to know who / how many are racing ๐Ÿ˜€).

Momentum is building with dozens of entries rolling in each day (including big names like Melisa Rollins, Bec Henderson, Peta Mullens, Brendan Johnston, Samara Sheppard, Courtney Sherwell, Sam Fox... the list goes on).

It's going to be a cracker!

So....

Share this with your training partners, consult your significant other, and get your kids fired up for the 10km or Groms...

If you like bikes, dirt and cheer...

This is a weekend not to be missed.

ENTER HERE:
๐Ÿ‘‰ bit.ly/ENTER_ODYSSEY_GOGG
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If you are a Last-minute-Larry waiting for the 11th hour to enter the Odyssey or GOGG..

NOW IS THE TIME!

๐‹๐š๐ญ๐ž-๐…๐ž๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐Ÿ“๐๐Œ, ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐“๐‡ ๐Ž๐… ๐…๐„๐ (๐ง๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ ๐Œ๐จ๐ง๐๐š๐ฒ). 

(Entering now also really helps us with event preparations to know who / how many are racing ๐Ÿ˜€). 

Momentum is building with dozens of entries rolling in each day (including big names like Melisa Rollins, Bec Henderson, Peta Mullens, Brendan Johnston, Samara Sheppard, Courtney Sherwell, Sam Fox... the list goes on). 

Its going to be a cracker!

So.... 

Share this with your training partners, consult your significant other, and get your kids fired up for the 10km or Groms... 

If you like bikes, dirt and cheer... 

This is a weekend not to be missed. 

ENTER HERE: 
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/ENTER_ODYSSEY_GOGG
5 days ago

Act casualโ€ฆ thereโ€™s cycling royalty in our midst! ๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿšดโ€โ™€๏ธ

Weโ€™re stoked to announce that 2024 Leadville 100 winner, MELISA ROLLINS, is a confirmed starter for the 2025 Otway Odyssey!

She finished 2nd in the Life Time Grand Prix last year, so sheโ€™ll no doubt be in the mix for the win. Plus, @petamullens calls her a โ€œgirl crushโ€ โ€“ so you know sheโ€™s a top notch human!

๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ž๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง?
"๐ผ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘‚๐‘ก๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘“๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž๐‘› "๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘›" ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’. ๐ต๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ˆ๐‘† ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘‘๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐ด๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐‘–๐‘ก'๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘”๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘ ๐‘€๐‘‡๐ต ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’. ๐ด๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ข๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐ด๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘๐‘’!"

๐“๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž?
"๐ผ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘ก'๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘˜ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘”๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘œ ๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘™๐‘š๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’. ๐ผ๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ โ„Ž ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘›๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘”๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘”๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘ ."

๐…๐ฎ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฒ?
"๐ผ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘‘๐‘œ 100 ๐‘” ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘/โ„Ž๐‘Ÿ. ๐ผ'๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž. ๐‘๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘“๐‘’๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’, ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘“๐‘“๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”! ๐‘€๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘›๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘’๐‘‘! ๐ธ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘“๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›. ๐ท๐‘œ๐‘›'๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ."

๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐š ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ž?
" ๐‘‚๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐ผ ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ ! ๐ผ'๐‘š ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’. ๐ผ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘”๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž, ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘“."

๐๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฉ?
"๐‘€๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘‹๐ถ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐ผ ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ . ๐ผ'๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘› ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐พ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ž ๐‘…๐‘ข๐‘ โ„Ž ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ --๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘‹๐ถ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘ . ๐ผ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘ฃ ๐‘ƒ๐‘–๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘’, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ."

๐€๐๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ?
"๐ผ'๐‘š ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘“ ๐ผ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’, โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ :)"

So good to have you Melisa.

Canโ€™t wait to see you take on the Odyssey! ๐Ÿ”ฅ

To join Melisa on the start line, get your entry in here before prices go up next Monday:
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Act casualโ€ฆ thereโ€™s cycling royalty in our midst! ๐Ÿ‘‘๐Ÿšดโ€โ™€๏ธ

Weโ€™re stoked to announce that 2024 Leadville 100 winner, MELISA ROLLINS, is a confirmed starter for the 2025 Otway Odyssey!

She finished 2nd in the Life Time Grand Prix last year, so sheโ€™ll no doubt be in the mix for the win. Plus, @petamullens calls her a โ€œgirl crushโ€ โ€“ so you know sheโ€™s a top notch human!

๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ž๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง?
๐ผ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘‚๐‘ก๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘“๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’. ๐ต๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ˆ๐‘† ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘๐‘’๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘‘๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐ด๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘”๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘ ๐‘€๐‘‡๐ต ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’. ๐ด๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ข๐‘  ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐ด๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘๐‘’!

๐“๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž?
๐ผ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘˜ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘”๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘œ ๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘™๐‘š๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’. ๐ผ๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘™๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ โ„Ž ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘›๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘”๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘”๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘ .

๐…๐ฎ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฒ?
๐ผ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘‘๐‘œ 100 ๐‘” ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘/โ„Ž๐‘Ÿ. ๐ผ๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘โ„Ž. ๐‘๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘“๐‘’๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’, ๐‘—๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘“๐‘“๐‘’๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘›๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”! ๐‘€๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ก๐‘œ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘›๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘’๐‘‘! ๐ธ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘“๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘›. ๐ท๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ.

๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐š ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ž?
 ๐‘‚๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐ผ ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ ! ๐ผ๐‘š ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’. ๐ผ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘”๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž, ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’, ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘›๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘“.

๐๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฉ? 
๐‘€๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘‹๐ถ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐ผ ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘ . ๐ผ๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ข๐‘› ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐พ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘Ž ๐‘…๐‘ข๐‘ โ„Ž ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ --๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘‹๐ถ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘ . ๐ผ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ฟ๐‘–๐‘ฃ ๐‘ƒ๐‘–๐‘ž๐‘ข๐‘’, ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ.

๐€๐๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ? 
๐ผ๐‘š ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘“ ๐ผ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’, โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘’๐‘Ÿ :)

So good to have you Melisa. 

Canโ€™t wait to see you take on the Odyssey! ๐Ÿ”ฅ 

To join Melisa on the start line, get your entry in here before prices go up next Monday: 
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/ENTER_ODYSSEY_GOGG

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6 days ago

You donโ€™t have to dig very deep to find overlap between Otway Odyssey and the Life Time Grand Prix (the most elite, off-road cycling series in the world).

Examplesโ€ฆ

๐‘๐ฒ๐š๐ง ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ง๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ก won the 2018 Otway Odyssey (ahead of Tour Down Under Winner Jay Vine). He then went on to race the 2023 Life Time Grand Prix, finishing in 25th position.

๐“๐š๐ฌ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐๐š๐ง๐ค๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ is a mainstay at the Otway Odyssey โ€“ winning the 100km in 2017. Heโ€™s arguably even stronger at the GOGG โ€“ winning the event 6 times in itโ€™s 9 year history!
Tasman also raced the Life Time Grand Prix in 2023, placing an impressive 17th.

Then thereโ€™s ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐๐š๐ง ๐‰๐จ๐ก๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐งโ€ฆ He races Odyssey virtually every year (and has won the 100km twice in 2019, 2022). Trekky placed 7th in the 2023 Life Time Grand Prix and 4th in 2024. (He also came 2nd by the narrowest of margins in the prestigious Big Sugar Gravel Race in 2023).

In the womenโ€™s field, thereโ€™s ๐๐ž๐ญ๐š ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ โ€“ 6 time Odyssey champion and 3 time winner of the GOGG. Peta raced the Life Time Grand Prix last year and placed a very respectable 21st.

Thereโ€™s also ๐’๐š๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐š ๐’๐ก๐ž๐ฉ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐โ€ฆ Sheโ€™s a force to be reckoned with in the Odyssey and GOGG each year (2025 to be no exception). Sheโ€™s won the GOGG twice (2019 & 2024) and has been a fixture at the pointy end of the 100km MTB in recent years. Samara raced the 2024 Life Time Grand Prix, placing an awesome 16th against the best in the business. Now sheโ€™s lining up for the 2025 series too!

Then thereโ€™s ๐„๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ซโ€ฆ Ella placed 5th in last yearโ€™s Odyssey (and won the Shimano Gravel Muster!) off the back of her 2023 Life Time Grand Prix circuit where she finished 22nd.

And, letโ€™s not forget, ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ญ๐ง๐ž๐ฒ ๐’๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ โ€“ previous winner of the GOGG (2022) and second place getter in the 100km Odyssey. Coming off the back of some world-class results, Courtney is a confirmed starter in the 2025 Life Time Grand Prix.

But thatโ€™s not allโ€ฆ

๐Ÿ‘€ ๐‘๐ฎ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ ๐Ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ž๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š ๐๐„๐– ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐“๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฑ ๐Ÿ‘€

๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฑโ€ฆ

๐‡๐š๐ฌ ๐–๐Ž๐ ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐”๐’๐€ ๐Œ๐“๐ ๐ฌ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐žโ€ฆ

๐€๐ง๐ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐“๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฑ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ.

๐€๐ง๐ฒ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐›๐ž?

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You donโ€™t have to dig very deep to find overlap between Otway Odyssey and the Life Time Grand Prix (the most elite, off-road cycling series in the world). 

Examplesโ€ฆ 

๐‘๐ฒ๐š๐ง ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ง๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ก won the 2018 Otway Odyssey (ahead of Tour Down Under Winner Jay Vine). He then went on to race the 2023 Life Time Grand Prix, finishing in 25th position. 

๐“๐š๐ฌ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐๐š๐ง๐ค๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ is a mainstay at the Otway Odyssey โ€“ winning the 100km in 2017. Heโ€™s arguably even stronger at the GOGG โ€“ winning the event 6 times in itโ€™s 9 year history!
Tasman also raced the Life Time Grand Prix in 2023, placing an impressive 17th.   

Then thereโ€™s ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐๐š๐ง ๐‰๐จ๐ก๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐งโ€ฆ He races Odyssey virtually every year (and has won the 100km twice in 2019, 2022). Trekky placed 7th in the 2023 Life Time Grand Prix and 4th in 2024. (He also came 2nd by the narrowest of margins in the prestigious Big Sugar Gravel Race in 2023). 

In the womenโ€™s field, thereโ€™s ๐๐ž๐ญ๐š ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ โ€“ 6 time Odyssey champion and 3 time winner of the GOGG. Peta raced the Life Time Grand Prix last year and placed a very respectable 21st. 

Thereโ€™s also ๐’๐š๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐š ๐’๐ก๐ž๐ฉ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐โ€ฆ Sheโ€™s a force to be reckoned with in the Odyssey and GOGG each year (2025 to be no exception). Sheโ€™s won the GOGG twice (2019 & 2024) and has been a fixture at the pointy end of the 100km MTB in recent years. Samara raced the 2024 Life Time Grand Prix, placing an awesome 16th against the best in the business. Now sheโ€™s lining up for the 2025 series too!

Then thereโ€™s ๐„๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ซโ€ฆ Ella placed 5th in last yearโ€™s Odyssey (and won the Shimano Gravel Muster!) off the back of her 2023 Life Time Grand Prix circuit where she finished 22nd. 

And, letโ€™s not forget, ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ญ๐ง๐ž๐ฒ ๐’๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ โ€“ previous winner of the GOGG (2022) and second place getter in the 100km Odyssey. Coming off the back of some world-class results, Courtney is a confirmed starter in the 2025 Life Time Grand Prix. 

But thatโ€™s not allโ€ฆ 

๐Ÿ‘€ ๐‘๐ฎ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“ ๐Ž๐ญ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ž๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š ๐๐„๐– ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐“๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฑ ๐Ÿ‘€

๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฑโ€ฆ

๐‡๐š๐ฌ ๐–๐Ž๐ ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐”๐’๐€ ๐Œ๐“๐ ๐ฌ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐žโ€ฆ 

๐€๐ง๐ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐“๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฑ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ. 

๐€๐ง๐ฒ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐›๐ž?  

Join these legends on the start line here: 
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You'd actually make a good MC at Odyssey ๐Ÿ˜‚

Melisa Rollins?

1 week ago

[๐Ž๐“๐–๐€๐˜ ๐Ž๐ƒ๐˜๐’๐’๐„๐˜ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Š๐Œ | ๐‚๐Ž๐”๐‘๐’๐„ ๐๐Ž๐“๐„๐’ | ๐๐€๐‘๐“ ๐Ÿ• | โ€œ๐€ ๐‹๐ˆ๐“๐“๐‹๐„ ๐’๐„๐๐ƒ๐˜โ€]

What goes up must come downโ€ฆ

And after a brute of a climb up Thompsons Track (the 90km point of the race), you take a left hand turn on Hayden Track and begin the mostly downhill approach to the finish.

After 3km of relatively smooth sailing, you take a left onto Newcombe Spur Track, and things get a little rugged.

This undulating, stunning and sometimes rutty section of fire-road is surrounded towering Mountain Ash and covered with the associated debris. (If you Google โ€œNewcombe Spur Trackโ€ youโ€™ll see dozens of images of Land Cruisers up to their axles in ruts!).

Pick your line carefully, let gravity do the talking and when you hit the steep climbs, use momentum to your advantage.

The fastest known time down this ~8km section was set by Adrian Jackson during last yearโ€™s Odyssey. He completed the โ€œdescentโ€ in a time of ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ” ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ” ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฌ โ€“ ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ– ๐ค๐ฆ๐ก.

In the womenโ€™s, Samara Sheppard took the QOM in 2023โ€™s race. She completed this Segment in ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘ ๐ค๐ฆ/๐ก.

Let those average speeds be a clueโ€ฆ

This โ€œdescentโ€ is not to be underestimated!

For Strava stalking, go here:
๐Ÿ‘‰ www.strava.com/segments/31063567?filter=overall

And to enter the Odyssey nd/or GOGG, go here:
๐Ÿ‘‰ bit.ly/ENTER_ODYSSEY_GOGG

Getting close nowโ€ฆ

The (very excited) Rapid Ascent Team
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[๐Ž๐“๐–๐€๐˜ ๐Ž๐ƒ๐˜๐’๐’๐„๐˜ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Š๐Œ | ๐‚๐Ž๐”๐‘๐’๐„ ๐๐Ž๐“๐„๐’ | ๐๐€๐‘๐“ ๐Ÿ• | โ€œ๐€ ๐‹๐ˆ๐“๐“๐‹๐„ ๐’๐„๐๐ƒ๐˜โ€]

What goes up must come downโ€ฆ 

And after a brute of a climb up Thompsons Track (the 90km point of the race), you take a left hand turn on Hayden Track and begin the mostly downhill approach to the finish. 

After 3km of relatively smooth sailing, you take a left onto Newcombe Spur Track, and things get a little rugged. 

This undulating, stunning and sometimes rutty section of fire-road is surrounded towering Mountain Ash and covered with the associated debris. (If you Google โ€œNewcombe Spur Trackโ€ youโ€™ll see dozens of images of Land Cruisers up to their axles in ruts!). 

Pick your line carefully, let gravity do the talking and when you hit the steep climbs, use momentum to your advantage.  

The fastest known time down this ~8km section was set by Adrian Jackson during last yearโ€™s Odyssey. He completed the โ€œdescentโ€ in a time of ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ” ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ” ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฌ โ€“ ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ– ๐ค๐ฆ๐ก. 

In the womenโ€™s, Samara Sheppard took the QOM in 2023โ€™s race. She completed this Segment in ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‘ ๐ค๐ฆ/๐ก. 

Let those average speeds be a clueโ€ฆ

This โ€œdescentโ€ is not to be underestimated! 

For Strava stalking, go here: 
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://www.strava.com/segments/31063567?filter=overall

And to enter the Odyssey nd/or GOGG, go here: 
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://bit.ly/ENTER_ODYSSEY_GOGG

Getting close nowโ€ฆ

The (very excited) Rapid Ascent Team

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Customized medals

2 weeks ago

First times at the Odyssey are always scaryโ€ฆ

๐–๐ก๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐œ๐ค ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž:

โ€œ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐ผ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘–๐‘ก. ๐‘€๐‘ฆ ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘€๐‘‡๐ต ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž ๐‘ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘™ ๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐ผ'๐‘š ๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘“ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐ผ ๐‘”๐‘œ. ๐ด๐‘  ๐‘Ž 41 ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘‘, ๐ผ'๐‘š โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘“ ๐ผ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘Ž ๐ท๐‘๐น.โ€
โ€“ Mark, 50km MTB

๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐š ๐ฆ๐š๐ฃ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ๐›๐š๐œ๐คโ€ฆ

โ€œ๐น๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ. ๐บ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜.โ€
โ€“ Ian, 50km MTB

๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐‚๐€๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก ๐š๐ง โ€œ๐จ๐ฅ๐โ€ ๐๐จ๐  ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ค๐ฌ...

โ€œ๐ผ'๐‘š 60 ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘, ๐ผ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’, ๐ผ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’, ๐ผ'๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘ , ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ผ ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข'๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘œ ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค.โ€
โ€“ Jeffery, 30km MTB

๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ซโ€ฆ

โ€œ๐ผ'๐‘š ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ 50๐‘˜๐‘š ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐ท๐‘Ž๐‘‘. ๐ผ'๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ!โ€
โ€“ Elliot, 50km MTB (12 year old!)

๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐š ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐žโ€ฆ

โ€œ๐ผ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž ๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘™ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’!โ€
โ€“ Sholto 97km GRAVEL
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๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐งโ€ฆ

โ€œ๐ด๐‘๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘š๐‘ฆ 3 ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘–๐‘Ÿ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘€๐‘‡๐ต ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’.โ€
โ€“ David 10km MTB

๐Ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌโ€ฆ

โ€œ๐ผโ€™๐‘š ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘Ž ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘. ๐ผโ€™๐‘š ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐ผโ€™๐‘™๐‘™ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐ผโ€™๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘š, ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐ผโ€™๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘š ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆโ€
โ€“ Scotty, 49km GRAVEL

No matter what the situation, first times take courage.

So, please put your virtual hands together for the brave souls breaking personal frontiers at the 2025 Odyssey.

Weโ€™ll certainly be cheering extra hard when they cross the line.

The Rapid Ascent Team

ENTRIES HERE:
๐Ÿ‘‰ raceroster.com/events/2025/93506/great-otway-gravel-grind-and-otway-odyssey-2025
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First times at the Odyssey are always scaryโ€ฆ 

๐–๐ก๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐œ๐ค ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ ๐ž: 

โ€œ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ž ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐ผ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘–๐‘ก. ๐‘€๐‘ฆ ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘€๐‘‡๐ต ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž ๐‘ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘™ ๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐ผ๐‘š ๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘ฆ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘™๐‘“ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐ผ ๐‘”๐‘œ. ๐ด๐‘  ๐‘Ž 41 ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘‘๐‘Ž๐‘‘, ๐ผ๐‘š โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘–๐‘“ ๐ผ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘Ž ๐ท๐‘๐น.โ€
โ€“ Mark, 50km MTB

๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐š ๐ฆ๐š๐ฃ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ๐›๐š๐œ๐คโ€ฆ

โ€œ๐น๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘”๐‘–๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ. ๐บ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘˜.โ€
โ€“ Ian, 50km MTB

๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐‚๐€๐ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก ๐š๐ง โ€œ๐จ๐ฅ๐โ€ ๐๐จ๐  ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ค๐ฌ...

โ€œ๐ผ๐‘š 60 ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘  ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘, ๐ผ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘–๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’, ๐ผ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’, ๐ผ๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘œ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก๐‘ , ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ผ ๐‘”๐‘ข๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘œ ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ค.โ€
โ€“ Jeffery, 30km MTB

๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ซโ€ฆ

โ€œ๐ผ๐‘š ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ 50๐‘˜๐‘š ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘š๐‘ฆ ๐ท๐‘Ž๐‘‘. ๐ผ๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘‘๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ!โ€
โ€“ Elliot, 50km MTB (12 year old!) 

๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐š ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐žโ€ฆ 

โ€œ๐ผ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘Ž ๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘™ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘š๐‘’!โ€
โ€“ Sholto 97km GRAVEL 
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๐…๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐งโ€ฆ

โ€œ๐ด๐‘๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘š๐‘ฆ 3 ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘–๐‘Ÿ ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘€๐‘‡๐ต ๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’.โ€
โ€“ David 10km MTB

๐Ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌโ€ฆ 

โ€œ๐ผโ€™๐‘š ๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘‘๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘Ž ๐‘”๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘‘. ๐ผโ€™๐‘š ๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐ผโ€™๐‘™๐‘™ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘™๐‘™๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘˜๐‘›๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐ผโ€™๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘’ โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘š, ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐ผโ€™๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ โ„Ž๐‘–๐‘š ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆโ€
โ€“ Scotty, 49km GRAVEL

No matter what the situation, first times take courage. 

So, please put your virtual hands together for the brave souls breaking personal frontiers at the 2025 Odyssey. 

Weโ€™ll certainly be cheering extra hard when they cross the line. 

The Rapid Ascent Team 

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