Tarragona - The home of Roger and with this a lot of pressure to find exceptional bike trails, the secret why he swims so fast and reason why cooking with him is so fun. I had the chance to find a lot of answers in the past week with the highlight of racing the Xterra...

Golden Bay - This is my third attempt in this crazy race. In the previous years I had only bad luck here. 2 years ago I had a very bad crash at the end of the first lap of the bike that forced me to abandon. Last year I had no crash, but such a brocken valve that was i...

Scanno - One of the best races in the year and again a highlight. The weather was just fabulous this year and the course got a much needed update by switching the long and the short loop on the bike around. This change prevented that the pros would catch in the second...

Vallé de Joux - Back in the Valley of rain and mud and this year was no different. The weather forecast was promising, but the race turned out to be a mud fest. This year special was that in the XTERRA race it was also the ETU European Championships integrated. Not an...

The Xterra Greece race was moved from the already beautiful setting from Lake Plastina to the beaches south of Athens. This stunning location at Vouliagmeni, this beach was in the year 2000 the setting for the Olympic Triathlon race and since then never used again for...

It seams like there is something against me and keeping me off to ever reach the run course during the Xterra Malta. The days previous the race were great. The island has lot to offer and the outdoors are stunning beautiful. Many historic sites are close by the race co...

This year I am back for the second time to race the Xterra in the Wester Cape and Elgin Valley. I also use the perfect condition in February and March as a 1 month training camp in Stellenbosch. Not only are all the top athletes here, but the facilities and the mind s...

The final race of the year for me took place on Maui and at the XTERRA World Championships. This edition of XTERRA Maui was also very special as being the 20th anniversary of the sport as is started 1996 as the Aquaterra on the shores of Makena beach. 

Last year I had...

A long tour across Europe comes to an end in England with the final race and it counts also as the XTERRA European Championships. The tour this year has again brought me to places I would have never seen without the opportunity to race there, met many new people and m...

Picture: Philip Becker - In the rock garden of Zittau

In the week after Xterra Czech and my success there, Bradley and I traveled north and visited Prag on the way. Prag is nice, but we were both eager to get back in the forest and on the trails around Zittau In For th...