August 27, 2009 – 9:13 pm
So, a couple of months ago I entered the Montane Kielder 100 billed as the UKs first ever 100 mile mountain bike race.
2 months have passed quickly and I’ll be traveling up to Kielder a week tomorrow. Although feeling fit I’m not sure I’ve done enough training and never done anything close to 100 miles [...]
Off (early tomorrow morning) to the Singletrack Classic Weekender at Rossendale Quarry for the err… weekend. One bike, one set of tyres (Halo Choir Masters of course) and three disciplines; Trails, Downhill and XC - sounds ace!
I’ve also just signed up to the Montane Kieder 100 a one day, hundred mountain bike mile race on [...]
Just 2 days to go until Mountain Mayhem (and the weather forecast is dry(!?) mmm… we’ll see…). Took the ‘race’ bike (geared Voodoo) out last night, as its not been used since Enduro 6 and had vague memories of it sounding quite unhealthy during the race. Confirmed at the top of the first climb to [...]
After a very cold (frosty!) night (wrapped in two sleeping bags)
The weather continued to blatantly flaunt Metcheck’s mid-week predictions and looked set for another glorious day (yep, dry & dusty at Catton Park!).
We’d arrived mid-afternoon on Saturday and after erecting tents and gazebo, scuttled off excitedly to do a practice lap - the course really [...]
So, around a year after booking the Fundamentals course (postponements due to my fractured elbow and the Atherton’s having a awesome season - how dare they! )…..
Late Saturday afternoon, (in true to form - last minute-ness) I decided to give the bike I was going to use for the following days Athertons training [...]
Lots of entry forms been filled in at the moment…
“Thank you for entering the 2009 Original Source Mountain Mayhem.
This is to confirm registration of your team in the SPORT MEN Category.
Further event information will be sent to team captains nearer the event date.
See you there!!
Patrick, Jill and the Mayhem Team”
Received confirmation for our team entry [...]
February 8, 2009 – 7:55 pm
Go!
In short Hit the North was a lot of fun the course was excellent (much improved over the original HTN course in my opinion). I was really glad I chose to ride the singlespeed (and scwhable mud shark 1.5 tyres), the 32:18 ratio proving to suit the climbs and the flat bits weren’t as [...]
February 6, 2009 – 9:29 pm
First race if the year tomorrow - Hit the North 1.5
I say race it, I imagine it will be more of a pottle in my case.
Excuses I have so far are:-
Had a virus thing last week and not been on a bike for two weeks.
Doing it on a singlespeed with a 32:18 ratio [...]
January 24, 2009 – 10:34 pm
Total opposite of my last ride - out on the SS again for just over 2.5hours and felt really good.
I did a loop from Whalley Bridge to Buxton via Derbyshire Bridge, which I’ve not done singlespeed before. I thought there would be a few pushes as there are a couple of steep sections - [...]