Rapid Ascent - The Redback Mountain Bike Stage Race

Rapid Ascent - The Redback Mountain Bike Stage Race

A few St Philip's staff and students competed in the recent 4-day, 6-stage mountain bike event in Alice Springs.

There were two event categories, competitors could race in this year; the A-Line (riding 178km over 6 days), or the B-Line (110km).

Past student Tom Stockwell (2022) took on the A-Line once again, coming 1st in his category and 2nd overall in gender position. He completed the 6 stages in a fast time of 8.5 hours.

Current student Elise Harvey (Yr 9) competed in the B-Line, taking out 1st in her category and 4th overall in gender position. Elise completed the 4 stages in just over 7.5 hours. Elise also had some of her family out there (Father - Mark / Brother - Braddon) which was awesome to see.

Dave Atkins was racing with his son Mac in the B-Line and both got podium finishes for their categories - Dave Atkins 1st place and Mac Atkins 2nd place. Mac is only 11 years old and was racing Under 18s! It was a family occasion with Dave Atkins' partner, Georgina Landy, also coming 1st in her category in the A-Line event and 3rd overall in the females for A-Line.

Emma Shearer came in 1st place in her B-Line category as well as 2nd overall in the B-Line event - completing the 6 stages in just under 6.5 hours.

It was also great to see James Tudor (Forktail Films) out on course photographing some of the event - thanks!

Full results can be found here.

We are so lucky to have such an amazing network of trails here in Alice Springs, and grateful for Rapid Ascent to put on such a great event for our enthusiastic community to take part in.