Lashing it down.
It seemed apt for the forth & final (or not!) installment of the Hit the North race saga.
Although a bit apprehensive about how my body would react to 8 straight hours of CX bike action, the preceding weeks’ deluge and gloopy looking course made me feel a bit better about the decision.
Viewing [...]
Woken by my 5am alarm, not an ideal start to a day when starting a 24 hour race at midday.
Up. By 5.30 two bikes have been squeezed into the car & I’m off to get my pit helper for the race. Seb had offered to drive so I could get some sleep.
Zzzzzzzzz…. The change in [...]
October 22, 2009 – 11:14 pm
I had missed the previous two races in the 2nd Brownbacks Race Series as they all clashed with other events/races. So was looking forward to the final race of the Hope sponsored series.
As the only bike that wasn’t in bits the decision was made for me to ride it on the singlespeed. I’d ridden [...]
September 30, 2009 – 9:09 pm
A first timers view on Yorkshires ’special’ cross race.
September 24, 2009 – 9:43 pm
New Bike! It arrived just in time for the The Three Peaks (my first ever CX race) which happens this Sunday.
The Crossbow was purchased from Sam at the very helpful Sett Valley Cycles who specialize in Ridley bikes - highly recommended.
Only ridden about 3 times so far, a 55 mile hilly, sportive ride around the [...]
September 7, 2009 – 3:10 pm
Eventually decided on riding the Genesis singlespeed for the Kielder 100 race as the weather was still looking extremely wet and there would be less chance of mechanical ‘issues’.
I took Rich up on his offer of a lift to Kielder and we arrived around an hour before dusk, enough time to register and pitch my [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]