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You picked a good spot, looking forward to the pics.

Loved it this year, new jumpy bit was ace. Had a really crap start but still managed 6 laps.

Nice to put a name to a face Ben Houldsworth. I was with Paul Errington when you came over for a bit craic.

Thanks to everyone who made it possible, will be back again next year!

Ace on every level*

*Not including the Field of Despair 🙂

Thanks to all involved!

Massive thanks to all the organisers, marshals and (especially for me) the St. John Ambulance. The course was epic, brilliant down bits and crunching ups!

Unfortunately for me I decided to show off on the jumps and just got back from A&E. Dislocated shoulder and a few cuts and bruises. MASSIVE thanks to everyone who looked after me (especially the chap who pushed my broken bike back to the car park and the lady who first helped me). Although rubbish for me, it really showed the spirit of the event!

Was on my 3rd lap and like to fool myself that I would done 4. Thanks again, great morning.

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Few pics up there taken by my gf – there’s a good one of you at the end Helen 😀

Great event, thanks to Terrahawk and Harry the Spider and all the other organisers. It was fun but gone in a blur!

Well apart from Jane and the ‘you can ride it’ (not on a cx today Jane, sorry), I remember that bit…. Oh, and the new bermy bit is great fun. Even on a cx.

Great event with the ironically promised ‘Nice Weather’ making a show. Many thanks to everyone who purchased the letterpress prints and go get yourself one before they all disappear…
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Warren, save one of them for me. I’ll email you in the week.

Fantastic event today as usual. Good to see everyone having fun on what looked like a blast of a course. Pics are here: HERE (currently updating – if no pics show give it a few minutes)

The talk about laps has got me and me mate wondering how the results are ‘judged’, if there are results? we never really checked. We just thought you rode for 2 hours or so. We both did 4 laps, me finishing lap 4 in 2hrs and a minute or so, and him going through lap 3 on about 1:55 so finishing lap 4 when i was shivering by the car. Are we both 4 lappers or would i have been better being a bit less polite and squeezing lap 4 in just under 2hrs and cruising lap 5? This does matter, we have know each other for 37 years and need to know who won, to establish who gets the single or double bed in our hotel 🙂
* if we draw, we will have to top and tail the double 😉

I think of it like this…..Nicky Craig wins and everybody else came joint 2nd.
Except the bloke on a fixed cx.He comes like 1st.1 just for being teh awesome.

What a great event and can’t wait for next year!!! Brilliant course and fab weather for a change!! Managed to clear everything that was rideable on most laps though like most faded a little on last lap!!

Top marks to the organisers… 😀

Is that the Nick Craig that was killing xc many moons ago when i used to race? fair play to him 🙂

If you’d done lap 5 you’d have done better than him, however slow you rode it. I finished my 3rd lap with about 25 mins to go, so I did another lap, albeit very slowly. I was absolutely SHATTERED.

Brilliant fun. Thanks to all the organisers and Team JMC. Thanks also to everyone who cheered me (in the bright orange Garage Bikes kit)

You get placed on laps and finishing time iirc so you will have beaten your mate which is he important thing – (apart from having fun of course)

Another superb htn event well done guys, I wasn’t feeling up for it this morning but as soon as we started the adrenaline kicked in and I gave all I had – til I hit the field of despair one too many times, yuck, nearly folded then

Cracking event! 2nd one for me.Thanks to all the organisers and volunteers!
Wished i’d done it on my cross bike,bit claggy with 2.35 Hans dampfs on.
Sorry i didn’t speak to jules,bunnyhop,donk and Ian,my mate was driving and had to get home.
Big shout to the dude on the crosser with the full face lid on 😯

For the first time I actually thought the mtb’erists had an advantage on the course over the cx’s.By the looks ,a lot of the fast kids were on mtb’s (29ers mostly so its sort of flat bar cx’ish).
I split the difference 😕

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Absolutely bloody brilliant !!!!!

Massive thanks to everyone who organised, marshalled, supported and cheered

Now changed and clean, would’ve loved to go for a curry but had to get home

Course was fantastic.

Big thanks for everyone that helped with the balloon release, Lewis will be very proud of George’s life being celebrated in such a way.

Looked a great race,very muddy in places, some great decents, and steep up hills.

Well done to the riders, organisers, and us the spectators.

Pictures and video up soon.Probabaly tomorrow now.

absolutley great day first htn iv done thanks to all the organisers and marshalls 😀

My second post but I’m still buzzing from today; not since the NEMBA series has racing been such fun, we should have HTN every month 😀

I hope everyone that I hassled and shouted at and heckled and told ‘you’re rubbish on a bike go faster’ took it in the good humour that it was intended, as there were a teeny weeny minority that seemed to take it too seriously.

Marshal @ point number 6

Well done to clover coming in 2nd 🙂

Great race today, weather was perfect!

I think I did 4 laps – the Field of Despair was living up to its name.

was nice to see some Peaks Pootlers

@bunnyhop – thanks for the vocal support on every lap!

Yep, smashing event, loved all of it (apart from the Field of Despair and one nobber on a CX bike who seemed to think it was some sort of race? Weirdo). Big thanks to the organisers and everyone else who helped out, good work!

Dawson,you took a photo of me and my mate after the finish.It was only later on that i remembered i’d been on a pootle with you! (grey genesis?)

Lee.

@h4muf – yep, that was me.

+1 nobby tosser on a cx – all black lycra & on the lanky side

Looks like the was a lot of the Marple riders group out too

Well, they’re up. All 726 of them.

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Well done to all who rode and those who put a lot of effort into making things happen smoothly.

Can’t remember the crosser, a BMC rider got in a bit of a mood when I fell off on the rutted bit though.

It was on the river crossing bit on the 4th lap, he came up behind (fnnarr) & started bitching about not being fast enough/strong enough or whatever & to get out the way, tbh I couldn’t care less. Seeing some of the fast boys help out the clumsy is always good to see

Where were all the fat bikes?

Well, they’re up. All 726 of them.

Today I rode on my fixed CX bike. I got no air.

That, though is my boy.

You sir have children to be very proud of today!

Big shout to the dude on the crosser with the full face lid on

That was me 😀

Great event, and good course, just a shame I didn’t have the fitness..

Was it just one idiot on a CX bike? Just out of the water crossing I heard some arse shouting to a fellow competitor “Get out of the fu#king way!”

I thought it was only nice people that entered HTN….

It was on the river crossing bit on the 4th lap, he came up behind (fnnarr) & started bitching about not being fast enough/strong enough or whatever & to get out the way, tbh I couldn’t care less. Seeing some of the fast boys help out the clumsy is always good to

I’m pretty sure I was right behind you when that happened. Really wish I had taken his number to report! Hopefully his Conscience will take over now and not let that happen again in such a fantastic race!

Was that the guy in the BMC kit shouting Rider! repeatedly? nice :o(

I thought it was only nice people that entered HTN….

me too.

Great event as always!

richpips – I was watching your son do that while talking to NBT. Good bike skills that lad!! Respect to the young chap.

Sounds like it was a couple of people that gained a reputation! On the whole everyone was very friendly, cheers all.