THE hot streak Bendigo cycling star Peta Mullens is on continued at the weekend's round of the national mountain bike series in Pemberton, Western Australia.
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A fortnight after capturing the women's elite crown at the Cycling Australia road championships at Buninyong, Mullens reigned supreme in the MTB action.
What was round three in the national MTB series became a closely-fought duel between Mullens and ACT's Bec Henderson.
The team-mates in the mountain bike cross-country at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games set a fast pace from the opening lap.
By the end of the first lap they held a 36-second lead on the chasing pack.
At the end of the third lap Mullens was four seconds clear of Henderson, a bronze medallist in Glasgow.
By race end the Bendigo ace was almost five minutes ahead of runner-up Jodie Willett from Queensland as Jenni King from Victoria rode strongly to be third.
The aggressive style Mullens brought to success on the road flowed into her latest trek on the mountains.
“I think yesterday I left it all out there and today I wanted to do the same and I think I can be content with that,” Mullens said of the two rounds raced in Pemberton.
“On the third lap she (Henderson) gave it a bit of stick and then didn’t really get the gap she wanted and started to suffer a bit.
"I thought that on the fourth lap it was my time to go when she was probably at her weakest and feeling yesterday’s race in her legs.”
Bendigo's Chris Hamilton raced in the men's elite class in WA and was sixth in Sunday's duel.
Next round in the national MTB series is on February 6-7 at Mt Stromlo in Canberra.