BikeRadar Podcast: What's the hardest MTB discipline?

Between the team at BikeRadar and MBUK Magazine we've raced every MTB discipline going, so we wanted to work out which is the most demanding one around…

Marathon racing is tough

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Tom Marvin

Published: March 10, 2020 at 3:01 pm

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From fat-bike races in the Arctic to World-Cup-level downhill racing, with Enduro World Series, cross-country and multi-day marathons in-between, Tom and Seb from BikeRadar, and Luke Marshall from MBUK Magazine have done them all.

With such a broad spectrum of racing under the mountain-bike umbrella, we wanted to work out which is the toughest to compete in. Trying to compare a three-minute downhill race to a 200km marathon is pretty tricky, that's for sure!

Have we got it right, though? Let us know in the comments below.

mountain bike marathon racing
Tom recently did a three-day pairs marathon in South Africa – but is that harder than a three-minute DH race? - Jetline Action Photo

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Tom Marvin

Senior technical editor

Tom Marvin is a technical editor at BikeRadar.com and MBUK magazine. He has a particular focus on mountain bikes, but spends plenty of time on gravel bikes, too. Tom has written for BikeRadar, MBUK and Cycling Plus, and was previously technical editor of What Mountain Bike magazine. He is also a regular presenter on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel and the BikeRadar podcast. With more than twenty years of mountain biking experience, and nearly a decade of testing mountain and gravel bikes, Tom has ridden and tested thousands of bikes and products, from super-light XC race bikes through to the most powerful brakes on the market. Outside of testing bikes, Tom competes in a wide range of mountain bike races, from multi-day enduros through to 24-hour races in the depths of the Scottish winter – pushing bikes, components and his legs to their limits. He’s also worked out that shaving your legs saves 8 watts, while testing aerodynamics in a wind tunnel. When not riding he can be found at the climbing wall, in his garden or cooking up culinary delights.
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