Vlad Sabau

Yesterday, October 27th, took place the last stage of our “regional” championship – Clujul Pedaleaza. I had to get the best place possible to get overall from 3rd to 2nd place. I had a good warm up and a pretty decent start. I was first after the first lap and I was feeling pretty well. […]

Even if after the National Champs I had another few races I was pretty busy so I totally neglect the blog updates. So today I will tell you a few things about XCO Race from Oradea, the Geiger Marathon in Sibiu and the 3rd stage of our local championship “Clujul Pedaleaza”. First the XCO from […]

The National XCO Championship is a special race for me. From 2003 I didn’t miss it not only once, as a rider of course. So this was my 11th edition. I’ve prepared pretty well and I was confident but nervous. The course was still at Paltinis but was slightly modified since last years. Got there […]

I guess that this isn’t my best racing period of all time. Last year at Baia Mare Marathon I had a broken chain and finished 3rd (at my category and 4th overall) but yesterday’s race was simply ridiculous. I had a pretty good start and after some minor problems with the rear derailleur, which I’ve […]

After last year experience I’ve decided to race here again because it can be a good training: long climbs, technical descends. Even though I prefer xco races, because the lack of them I have to improvise, so this race but for the short course was a good choice. I had a rough week and this […]