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I have been thinking about championships this year. It’s been 10 years since I stumbled into my first messenger championships in Copenhagen and Paris, feeling perhaps the most shy I’ve ever felt.

I helped organise the European Messenger Championship @ecmc2026 this year in Berlin along with a team of around 15 people. And in the run-up, somewhere between schlepping boxes, thinking about everything that’s changed in the last 10 years, riding around feeling magic thinking about everyone soon to descend onto Berlin, there was also time for a happy cry in the kitchen. The championship itself is a blur of busyness to the point I can barely remember half the faces I saw, but going to other championships since it has had a certain extra sweetness.

I find myself looking at old championship photos and realising that I now know more faces in the photos than when I took them. How all these little trips have helped pad out and colour in all the details of these old photos.

The way I experience community and feel friendship has changed, my understanding of the effort that we put into things, the value of building things, my understanding of love, and how I hold people a little tighter in my heart when we say see you soon. It cannot all come from championships but it has definitely been changed by them. What an honour.

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#ECMC2026

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bicycles in the swiss alps

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These are the days of our lives!
Simplon Pass -> Milano

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Beautiful places with beautiful people!
Berlin -> Switzneyland

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εїз milano εїз

#cmwc #messfam

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Switzerland @suicmc26 this last week. What a treat to go from the back room organisational side of @ecmc2026 straight into the school trip kid end of things within a couple of days, as the Swiss championship rolled and bumbled its way through Switzerland. Thank you @domniumm.

Downloading all these photos from the last week off my camera made me smile a lot. What a blur.

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How many bottle bosses are on @lycra_adjacent new bombtracker?

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strongly recommended cranking audio for a longer form recap of a mega two days of hard mode bikepacking with @existential_adam @vapesandtofu @dirtdroprobbie @heaux.say and birthday boy @lycra_adjacent ❤️‍🔥

after getting absolutely thumped by this route across 3 days last year on one of my first bike trips, I was keen for revenge and to try it in 2 (with a little rerouting to avoid the heinous Maroora Boss Firetrail) 😈

a very late day zero arrival to a very full, very noisy, free campsite on a long weekend just out of Blackheath was maybe not the start we were hoping for, but after catching a few solid hours of sleep we were up and rearing to go at 8am for day 1 with 96kms and 2600m of climbing ahead of us 🌄

the day began with the six foot track, classically made for people walking without heavily laden bikes, evidenced in the multiple sets of stairs across fences. the cox’s river gnome @vapesandtofu was kind enough to let us pass, demonstrating optimal river crossing bike carrying technique to minimise drive train submersion risk. questionable logging forest management resulted in some apocalyptic scenes and mandatory buff (re)application 🔥. after many many hours of steep climbs, hike-a-bike and night riding, we were all delighted to cross a frigid river (some with appropriate footwear more delighted than others, +1 for crocs) before a final 33% gradient pinch up to infamously cursed dingo dell campground at 11pm and a birthday brownie for @lycra_adjacent 🎂

after collectively experiencing some of the deepest sleep we’ve had on a bike trip, we pushed on for another 127km across some more rough and rocky fire trails, 2100m climbing and my favourite road descent down to the saving grace of the steak and cheese pies of Wombeyan caves kiosk. 🥧🦘 keeping white line fever at bay, we rolled down a final gentle paved 30km to our well deserved McDonalds in Mittagong, with a last minute dash to the train station just to keep us on our toes

another epic trip for the books with some epic humans! satisfied, grateful, and always hungry for more! 🙇🏻‍♀️

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Time for some Hard Bikepacking™️ thanks to the organisational skills of @danajordan_ in time for @lycra_adjacent’s birthday. 15hrs total time on the first day, with lots of hike a bike, revenge on night time river crossings, ridiculous 25% grade sandy climbs and descents, and worst of all at some point I lost my stock cubes. My flavourless dinner was rescued with half of cam’s noodle seasoning packet. I still remember how devastating it was to lose my cheese on the Hunt 1000 in 2023.

A sleepless night at a busy long weekend campsite near Blackheath gave way to all of us being knocked out at Dingo Dell after a 10:41pm arrival and late dinner.

After 2 visits to Dingo Dell’s spicy descent and hike a bike this year I feel pretty done with this cursed campsite for a while!

But also feeling more healed after doing a day of Cloudride level difficulty with my bike for the first time since I fell in the snowy river ✨ ✨

📍 Dharug, Eora and Gundungurra Country

#bikepacking

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summer film pics are in and surprise surprise, I’ve been riding my bike 🌞

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CMWC 2025 main race was epic!! ✨ Take me back to Sydney pls 🖤 @cmwc2025sydney #GetADogUpYa

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