What’s the weather like now up there? it’s raining and 5 degrees down near your home(ish) #Slushy

Andrew H in 8th is doing well considering he’s been studying and not really ridden a bike in ages.

I’m thinking of you all, but I’m off out on the lash now.

Keep up the good work fellas.

The weather is very civilised just now. Temp around zero, calm and no precipitation…

I’m thinking of you all, but I’m off out on the lash now.

Me too, but I’m staying in with a few beers, The Funk Show on 6Music and a rather good mushroom tagliatelli with a chilled chardonnay.

Just had two pot noodles and a big handful of pills

Turn the sound system up and share some of that with Steve MacDonald,race organizer.It’s his birthday today.

Oops!

Dave from Jason by about 20 minutes in 1st and 2nd.

Guy Martin in 4th in his first solo 24 hour!

Brant still hanging on in 7th place in the pairs despite his team mate being out for a few hours now.

Don’t know what was in his pills.

Warm here infront of our jet incinerator 🙂

Tracks chewing up nasty on the fireroads being a slog

Spent most of the day on 700c x 35 wintermarathon spikes

Raining an ablut 4 degrees

Well done all!

Guy Martin certainly doing very well ! Good luck to all through the night

Night battles…..guy up to 3rd.

jase in 1st place………..hard little bastid 8)

Shaggy just tore past me onna flier there on the fatty

Ive just finished a doubler and am off for 3 hours kip while the night shift take over . Its raining alot now ! Only oneset of brake pads in 6 laps so far and one set of kit thanks to the incinerator jet !

Well done all, i’m thinking of you’s up there as i sit here wi a whisky in front of a roaring fire 😀 , done it once before on rigid ss and it almost reduced me to tears, in fact it would have but my tear ducts froze solid for the entire race.

Guy up to second now, one lap down though on Jason in first place riding a rigid SS – fantastic effort!.

I hope it isn’t as windy there as it is in Edinburgh. Wishing I’d done this now… next year…

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I hope it isn’t as windy there as it is in Edinburgh. Wishing I’d done this now… next year…

Not much wind. Been raining on and off for the last 8hrs or so. Best weather at a puffer in a long time, if not ever.

Aye if we discount the original puffer and 2008 ( post friday night storm)

Can also report that at 6am the track was slippier than a teflon coated icy fire road even with ice spikes i had to tripod down the hill fire road descent

2 hours to go.

1st Jason – 2 laps clear
2nd Tim Mackley – 20 minutes clear
3rd Dave Powell
4th Guy Martin in his first solo

Pairs

3rd Budge & Phil
4th Team Chris Bell Racing
7th Brant & Shaggy
9th Chris Bell Racing 2

Its looking like a tight race between on one and profile racing
Brant and Shaggy have dragged back a 25 minute deficit to a couple of mins

Yep, just looking at it now. After my nice warm sleep in a comfy bed. 😉

Big respect to everyone doing it, looks marginally less insane than normal weatherwise but still proper hardcore. Great to see the two Chris Bell teams going so well too.

Jason is late in for this lap. Hopefully a calculated slow down and not some 11th hour issues. 😕

[edit]He’s through![/edit]

Don’t think he can be beaten now!

I see On One have sneaked into 6 th

what about the young lady in 6th, she must be a tough hombre….
just reading her blog, which is pretty good.

http://rickshawlady.wordpress.com/

Dave is gaining on Tim in 2nd.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b351/xcracer/Puffersolojpg-large_zpsc87a5220.jpg%5B/img%5D

Now that’s what soloing is all about!

Taken from Budges twitter feed (who along with Phil finished 3rd in the pairs!)

That a north Manchester IT company has such an amazing bunch of talent is wonderful.
Mega props to Team JMC and all it’s many riders that utterly dominated puffer.

I’ve been following Dave and Jase’s amazing training programme, fitted in around full time jobs. Early morning and late night rides, and Dave could barely walk earlier this week.

And thanks from me to Shaggy (and his wife and Dad) for putting up with me.

ace well done to them all! glad to see Jase managed “ok” on the SS! i wonder if he lasted on the huge gear he blogged about

http://chris-noble-mtb.blogspot.com

Shaggy?

Strathpuffer 2013_109 by GavinBelton, on Flickr

I have a “live update” for you-

OOOOOWWWW!

My bike is probably saying something similar.

Shaggy

I have absolutely no idea where that Shaggy pic is taken. Inspite of being able to visualise almost every rock and root on the course.

On the last descent somewhere 😉

Ah yes! That makes sense. There was a *brilliant* corner at the top.

Was that the left hander whenyou realised there was no more uphill for a long time 🙂

Yip, just after that.

I rode the first few laps in daylight and it was all totally alien. In my head the course is always dark!

Just back home after my 4th Puffer. Have to say that apart from all the ice (nothing can be done about that, all part of the Puffer fun) that was the best condition I’ve ever seen the course in. Big congrats to all those involved in setting up and running it. Mega friendly event as ever.

Warm batch, cold beer and comfy bed await.

wish id taken monday off now…….