Anyone else in for the Southern Enduro at Milland this weekend ?
After a crash on Friday night from my lad, we're heading to A&E on Tues afternoon (as we're isolating today so wife can have surgery) which will likely decide whether we're racing on the weekend or not.
Well, whether HE is racing at the weekend or not ! I'm not sure whether i'll race if he's not... it seems a little unfair to me to leave him at home and go racing when i mostly got into this so he could race... but i guess that's a little debate i need to have with myself closer to the time.
But for now, lets make the assumption we're going 😀
Just me?
How did you get on mate?
I was there, a very enjoyable couple of hours on the bike!
I did a few jumps... this is the least awful of the pics.... i'm not a jump god at all.
I think my lad ended up 17/38 on the day with Olly in 16 and 5s overall
For me, I think I ended up 43/43 in the 40-49 cat as some it seems had no completed when we checked results earlier and thought i'd finished higher 😀
You may think "wtf that's rubbish" but you know what, I had an awesome day out and rode stuff I didn't think I could get down, raced hard and pushed myself outside my comfort zone many many times today. Every stage had 2-3 things i wasn't sure i'd get down without crashing. Add to this, the parent of our other crew who we pit with etc had stacked it in practice and done his ribs along with minor injuries on just about every other component on him too. I'm not putting that as an excuse for riding slower, but it plays a minor factor in your mind at times.
I'll take last place over sitting on my arse doing nothing all day, every day.
The terrain once again was hard hard hard! Steep, sketchy, jumpy, techy, FFS it was daft at times. I was quite shocked I completed 5 stages without lying down looking at the sky in pain. Amazed actually. I could/should have pushed harder, but honestly it was a war of attrition at times, it was "jeeez lets see if this one kills me or not"
The videos we watched don't do justice to how tough it was.
Cracking fun though.
Cost me £30 for a red bull rampage t-shirt and £10 for 2 fabulous beers as well!
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Before yesterday i'd not actually ridden the G170 down a proper trail since purchasing, not ridden it around a proper corner, although i had done a few jumps on it.
So yesterday was a bit of a baptism of fire for it.
But, you know what, it was bloody brilliant. Despite the fact that the race results may not show i love it, i really do.
It went everywhere i asked, every single time, every line, every turn, every jump, drop, twist and root, it did perfectly.
I know as i say, the result may not show that, but yesterday was a bit of a survival thing rather than a race thing. The track was tough and tricky and i was very much aware that my riding mate Dan had binned it and i was looking after both my lad and his 2 kids out on the trails. Along with the fact i was just trying to hang on and make it down. So sections i could arguably have powered on another day, i really wasn't because, well, it was very daunting.
But i honestly can't find a single fault.
Nice one weeksy - sounds great!
As long as you are having fun, thats all that matters mate.
I had a small off on stage 2 (i think it was), which cost me about 30 seconds, which would have placed me a bunch higher, but as i was mid to end pack, i wasnt too worried.
Was just a good day out, great few hours riding and some quality trails. They make good use of what is essentially one small hill side.
Well done, I missed the sign up so you beat me. It's my favourite southern enduro venue to be propping up the midfield/tail end The 40-49 cat is really competitive.
Its all about the fun, glad you enjoyed it.
