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National Park Bike Marathon: mountain bike event in the Engadin

09/09/2025
Franz Thomas Balmer
Mud and sweat in black and white: this is as close as you can get to the heartbeat of the National Park Bike Marathon. It's not perfection that counts here, but determination. My camera was right in the middle of it all.

One look at the sugared peaks early in the morning immediately revealed that this was not going to be a Sunday outing. On the contrary. In the pouring rain, the mountain bikers rolled up to the start in Scuol for the royal stage of the National Park Bike Marathon. And in cold, wet and muddy conditions. In short: conditions that demand everything

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The mud itself became the filter. It shows who keeps going when everything is against you. Pain burns into pride in every pedal stroke, in every cramped face, in every meter fought for. You can literally smell the lactate.

The intensity of this sport is revealed here. Faces break open in the rain. Tires dig through the mud. Eyes reflect determination. And the realization: sometimes the real victory is not the finish line, but the moment when you don't give up. Unadorned. Intense. Unrockable.

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