On discovery +1 now with ben fogle

…Ben Fogle’s Year of Adventures … set to record in the middle of the night…

Was quite interested to read his most recent adventures in Stow !! http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/21519129

Very weird course, similar to Mountain Mayhem in difficulty / lap length except for one gully / ravine crossing which everyone has to climb down into and back out of:

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Obviously the weather is much nicer 🙂

95% of the course is like this:

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Watched this tonight. He did it as a pair, so fairly full on. I was pretty impressed when he got to about 2hours to go at the hand over and his team mate wasn’t there. He just rode back out – that’s a MTFU thing to do in that situation. Never great when you get to handle over and no-one is there.

It’s a bit drier than last years Mayhem! Not that big an event either??

It’s much smaller than Mayhem and struggles to get enough sponsorship to run most years. But then the US is so sparse it’s hard to put together a national event like Mayhem. It has a nice friendly vibe though.

Any ideas how I can watch this? Torrents anyone? Online streaming?

Can’t seem to find it. Heeeeelp!