Words by John Speed The 1st Round of the Spring Gorrick series was at Crowthorne Woods, located next to Swinley Forest. I have been training over winter and using these events as a training guide until the main events start in March, as it’s important to get race experience! I was racing in the ‘Open’ […]
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Bristol Oktoberfest is an 8 hour race event that’s held at Ashton Court near Bristol. This event and the Bristol Bikefest are very popular with the club. This time we had 28 riders present plus 2 riding for Wiltshire fire service. We also had a renegade rider with Dorset Rough Riders who was wearing an
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Also available in slightly different form on Tom’s blog site. This was a twelve hour relay race organised by Gorrick and based at Minley Manor in Hampshire near Bracknell and Swinley Forest.The race ran from midday to midnight on Sunday 25th August. We were on site from Saturday lunch time to try and claim a
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Over the last two years we’ve entered teams in the 12 hour races at Erlestoke, Bristol Bikefest and Bristol Oktoberfest. We’ve also entered teams into the 24 hour races at Twentyfour12 and Sleepless in the saddle. We’d never got round to riding Mountain Mayhem, billed as “the biggest 24-hour mountain bike endurance event worldwide” (Wikipedia article). This
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We had 23 riders taking part in the 2013 Ritchey Bristol Bikefest. Things got off to a good start when we arrived at 2:30pm on the Friday and were able to bag a spot for our two gazebos right next to the transition area and the podium. Not so good was the rain that fell for
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The Spambiking Erlestoke12 event takes place on MOD land near the Erlestoke prison. It’s one of our favourite locations. It provides a lot of interesting singletrack. The 2012 route followed a similar layout to previous years albeit with some minor modifications. The bomb holes at the top of the hill were still probably the best
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Sunday 19 May 2013 saw the 2nd Round of the Southern XC Series at Crow Hill. The majority of the course was in the woods with lots of tight single track, and several boggy sections that caught out a number of racers. Anna raced first in the Elite Female Category. All the women started
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Anna Cipullo – 5th (Elite Female) Lee Morgan – 5th (Sport Male) Stuart Selwood – 20th (Open Male) John Speed – 50th (Open Male) Malcolm Toop-Rose – 22nd (Veteran)
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Malcolm Toop-Rose – 2nd (Veteran) Lee Morgan – 12th (Sport Male) Stuart Selwood – 17th (Open Male)
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Malcolm Toop-Rose – 2nd (Veteran) John Speed – 21st (Open Male)
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