Nice report crispo, cheers!
TBH scheduling events is always going to be a bollocks, because people start planning ages in advance, getting permissions etc, by the time you’ve got a serious date to talk about you’re probably already fairly committed. But this last weekend did seem mad, BES and Tweedlove and an EWS to boot.
Just had a look at the BES results and their Middle Aged Weekend Warriors classes were gutted. But the field looks pretty strong other’n that. Probably not the turnout they wanted but being realistic tweedlove was always going to be a bigger draw for that demographic so hopefully it’s not a wider issue. Whereas Tweedlove’s top end was hit just as hard, but they’re probably not that bothered because it’s the elites that make headlines but the santa-cruzes-on-audis demographic that pay the bills.
(I think vallelujah considered itself to be targeting the casual racer rather than the top end but tbf it’s hard to tell. That’s the spirit of enduro- no earthly idea what sort of race you’ve entered til you’re either pedalling a blue route or falling off a cliff.)