The 2023 Enduro National Championships at Red Hill, Victoria ran on the weekend of October 14-15. The weekend of racing started with juniors, e-bikers and adaptive riders on Saturday on a cool, blustery, damp and typical Mornington Peninsula day - but thanks to the hard work of the Red Hill Riders crew the trails were running pretty mint.
As is typical of high-end Enduro events the riders all left the pits in waves so the day was spread out massively, this worked really well this year with next to no log-jams of riders waiting out in the cold before each stage.
The conditions out on the trails were super varied, from windblown almost dusty corners out in the open to axle deep ruts of icky mud in the dark forests. It seemed almost no rider had a clean ride of all stages (except Kirrily Gates from U13 Girls, she’s one to keep an eye on in the future).
The U17 Men category had a super close battle between Cooper Northey and Connor Wright, Northey would take the win by just 2 seconds while Oliver Colthup would
