Not sure how many people care but I thought I'd share my weekend with you. Its probably something most people don't know about and it was one of the best weekends of the year so far!
Basically its a mountain bike race: I was in a team of four blokes, we take it in turn doing a lap of a course specially made for this event. It starts at 2pm Saturday and runs till 2pm Sunday (someone on the course the whole time).
I turned up on Friday night and set up camp with the rest of my mates, mostly old friends from my uni days. There were 3 all male teams and a couple doing the thing SOLO! Crazy people, they are both incredibly dedicated and have an amazing fitness/health regime.
The race started with some fine weather, I was up third and managed the 7.8 mile course in about 45 minutes. I was frustrated when no one turned up to take over so I went out for a second lap - apparently I only just missed him!
I kept my lap 'in lieu' until the sun went down and the rest of the team went onto doubles so we could get at least some sleep, I might have managed two hours in the bigger gaps I had.
It was an amazing event with lots of freebies and a fantastic atmosphere, you can see the results here (we were the Nubike slackers - doesn't like Firefox much) and the mountain mayhem site. Can't wait for the next one!
Here's me finishing our team's last lap, that beer tasted sooooo good!
Basically its a mountain bike race: I was in a team of four blokes, we take it in turn doing a lap of a course specially made for this event. It starts at 2pm Saturday and runs till 2pm Sunday (someone on the course the whole time).
I turned up on Friday night and set up camp with the rest of my mates, mostly old friends from my uni days. There were 3 all male teams and a couple doing the thing SOLO! Crazy people, they are both incredibly dedicated and have an amazing fitness/health regime.
The race started with some fine weather, I was up third and managed the 7.8 mile course in about 45 minutes. I was frustrated when no one turned up to take over so I went out for a second lap - apparently I only just missed him!
I kept my lap 'in lieu' until the sun went down and the rest of the team went onto doubles so we could get at least some sleep, I might have managed two hours in the bigger gaps I had.
It was an amazing event with lots of freebies and a fantastic atmosphere, you can see the results here (we were the Nubike slackers - doesn't like Firefox much) and the mountain mayhem site. Can't wait for the next one!
Here's me finishing our team's last lap, that beer tasted sooooo good!
something I'd like to do when I'm older I reckon 
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