[Closed] 3 Peaks CX

Oooh nothing yet. Braced for disappointment after the e mail outlining the vast over subscription and selection process. I meet the criteria fine, did it last year. French address and French club might help as well as the usual mutterings about size of your MRT donation! Good luck everyone.

I got a place.. Better get some fitness and get a cross bike built!

I'm in first time , but I have done loads of fell racing still papping it though

nothing for me yet. not looking too promising 🙁

I wouldn't panic just yet, I've a guaranteed entry due to being top10 last year and I've not heard anything yet either.

I was a marshal last year, which took the pressure off, but even so with +1000 entries I was still fretting till the mail came in just after 8 this morning.

Good luck to anyone still waiting to here. If you're unlucky to not get a place volunteer to marshal. Apart from the guaranteed entry next time, you'll have a great time being close to the race. I know I did.

I'm in. 🙂

Feel free to show your race steeds and build up's 🙂

To folks who have marshalled previous years how does one go about volunteering?

I'm in. This year is the year I go under 4 hours. Gonna put the cx bike in the garage and get out training 😉

[hijack] Where does this rate on the toughness factor, anyone able to compare it to the Fred Whitton/Tour de Ben Nevis?

still not heard anything. Has anyone had an e mail saying they are not in?

To volunteer as marshal I just mailed the organisers. Email address on their website.

To volunteer as marshal I just mailed the organisers. Email address on their website.

Thanks

Haven't heard anything yet,
I guess I mite be unlucky!
Email to say I am not in would be usefull though!

Where does this rate on the toughness factor, anyone able to compare it to the Fred Whitton/Tour de Ben Nevis?

I did TdBN the week before 3 peaks last year and did very similar times. In retrospect it was probably an error in terms of prep and I wont be doing it this year.

As for 'toughness' the TdBN is all over and done with by the time you reach the bothy but 3 Peaks keeps coming almost to the end as the last descent is pretty physical on a crosser when you're busted and its only a few K from there to the finish. The climbs are tougher and bigger on the 3 Peaks but mainly carrying. The descents on 3P are mostly technically straightforward. Unless you're a roady 😉

Gutted. Assuming not got in. An e mail saying so would indeed have been nice on the scale of politeness and not too difficult time consuming in this day and age. Sour grapes? You bet. 100% gutted. After my first attempt last year as a look see, I was all psyched to hit it hard and have a real crack at a time. Reckon they need to impose more qualifying criteria. For my 2p that should include being licenced and an active member of a BC registered or other similar organisation from another country club.

I'm not in, but didn't apply in the first instance as I fell off my bike breaking my wrist and knackering my knee a few days before entry opened.

I marshalled last year and will do so again this year. Was a good day out.

What relevant experience do people have?

I'm fairly fit, could ride a 100 mile sportive tomorrow, class myself as a competent mountain biker but the only time I've raced was the mega avalanche about 7 years ago so had nothing to put on the entry form and according to the update email was discarded immediately.

The only guy I know who got in did sub 4 previously ( a few years ago, mind) but has recent results at local races too which show he's not lost lots of speed since then (even though he'd say he has...)

I'm in. Done it 6 times before though.
Missed last year deliberately - after the incredible* weather of the 50th anniversary race I decided that it was time to finds something else to do on my birthday!

*incredibly bad

What relevant experience do people have?

Last year was my first and I put on CX race experience from a few seasons ago and a brief summary of non-race MTB experience that showed I knew about riding in the big hills.

For my 2p that should include being licenced and an active member of a BC registered or other similar organisation from another country club

I love the fact that it's not an elitist, expensive, rules and regs based event. Just my 2p 😉

I think the experience thing is fine, they want to keep it off the 'have a go at...' list. Done a sportive, tick, tri, tick, 3 Peaks walk, tick, blah. It is a race after all. It's not hard to have something to talk about. Do some cx races, do some fell races - typically £4 in pub/layby/village hall, enter on the day, so not the height of commitment. Not me this year ...happy/sad 😉

This will be my third. Did the wet one a few years ago. Got 4h1min last year so need to go back to do it properly.

First time round I had a bunch mountain bike races (mostly endurance, one podium, one Kielder 100) some cross races and a handful of TLI road races. I also put down a list of training rides that a friend and I had been doing for the Kielder 100 and rough idea of how many miles and of what type I did (basically a cycling CV)

Most of the field finish - even when the weather is shite. I imagine they don't want a bunch of no hopers being pulled off the mountain when they can pick a field where 90% finish.

Ha ha finally got a place via. the waiting list.

Just a shame I have a 4 week work trip to Turkey getting home 2 weeks before the race limiting my training, yet again. Nevermind see you all there!

Dan