The 22-year-old will use the time to focus on her new business, which offers strength and conditioning programs to aspiring mountain bikers.

She steps away at the peak of her powers after prevailing at a sodden Maydena Bike Park in southern Tasmania on March 14, despite crashing into the mud during qualifying.

The new track faced was inundated with heavy rain in the days leading up to the competition, before clearing in time for the main race on Sunday.

Wild conditions didn't affect A'Hern's composure after she finished 12 and 14 seconds ahead of junior riders Elise Empey and Lia Ladbrook, with the closest elite rider, Cassie Voysey, 25 seconds behind the champion.

"I actually felt really confident that I would have a really good run and yeah I felt really ready at the start and then it pretty much was a very fluid, very smooth run and everything went to plan," A'Hern said.

"Come Saturday when a whole bunch of rain fell we were all a little unsure on how the track would actually be with a bit of rain whether it would be good or bad for it,"

"It ended up being good come Sunday but Saturday was very hard to ride, just super sloppy and slippery and just any root any rock you'd just slip on."

A'Hern's new online business will allow the star mountain biker to work from anywhere in the world where she can provide custom-designed training tips as well as nutritional advice.

"Training programs and online gym programs that can be done at home or in the gym of their choice, it's all online so people can access it through that, I'm doing that to kinda help grow people in mountain biking, old, young anything really like mountain biking or any kind of cycling discipline," A'Hern said.

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While taking time to build her business in Australia, A'Hern will also survey the local biking competitions and compete in as many nearby competitions as she can.

"Usually I race the World Cups, world champs and stuff overseas, the downhill world champs and the series, but this year I decided to stay home again after last year kinda everything being funny with COVID," she said.

"Just doing a whole bunch of racing in Australia so enduro, downhill and cross country so I'll be kinda doing a little bit of all three disciplines, and just having fun doing a whole bunch of that."

Despite the break from elite competition, A'Hern won't be taking it easy.

"I plan on dominating Australia for sure then I'll reassess next year and see what I can do but I think at the meantime, I'd like to get a Euro national championship title that would be really cool to have the both, I think that would be my next main goal."

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