[Closed] Hit the North - ENTRY OPEN!

I'm in 🙂 can't wait!!

shall have to see if I can get team aldi to reform and whether I can get them to put in a full days work instead of lurking near the finish line 🙄

Woohoooooooooo. I'm spending my birthday traipsing across the Field of Despair like a refugee who's been forced, at gunpoint, to push a bike repeatedly up a hill. Hope it snows again 😀

Done…Now what tyres shall I use? Also will I need lights?

shall have to see if I can get team aldi to reform and whether I can get them to put in a full days work instead of lurking near the finish line

Done! 🙂

I'll see how I'm feeling about bike racing on Monday!

Great race people BTW (A MUST DO)!

I'm in.

Fingers crossed the medics let me race it....

In and bringing a spade this year. Woop woop, lets dig some BMWs out of snow again!

In finally after navigating the website who kept telling me they had my details, then giving me, then telling me the ones they gave me were wrong, then asking me to re-join. they eventually took my money though - i bet the race is easier

in my case I mean race in the loosest possible terms

We're getting live stats as the entries come in and it would appear that some of you are suffering from gender confusion.

Before confirming your entry take a peek down the front of your undies.

A simple guide is as follows... Last chicken drummer at the BBQ = Male.

I'm in but entering on a "smart" phone was stressfull and longer than the race itself.

It's as though British cycling are trying to keep people off their bikes by giving then hundreds of pages to go through.

Please use someone else next year please

Please use someone else next year please

No.

a fat bloke i know is doing it................ 😀

I am in

Want to do it again, hoping to have someone fuel share with me this time though....

Where are you coming from mrlugz?

I've not got my dates through yet Harry, so i don't know if I'll be pre-op or post-op by February. Its all very confusing

You are down as “sausage included”.

[i]Its all very confusing [/i]

Maybe a mixed pairs entry but riding solo?

Harry_the_Spider - Member
Where are you coming from mrlugz?

Newcastle. 🙂

How many riders are needed before you close

Entry is limited to 300. It will sell out. It always does.

[s]Im going to enter[/s]I've entered anyway, I have heard from a couple of mates that they want to do it 🙂

If any Newcastle ish peeps want to share a ride, I can carry 6 bods and 6 bikes in the van no bother.

Entry is limited to 300

+/- 50

😉

Entry is limited to 300

No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no.

There's no limits.

Rumour has it they've reformed and been booked to play on top of MTFU hill

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The limit is defined by the look on the BC race official’s face when 300 bodies line up at the start of the first climb.

Red – Not enough entries
Pink – The right amount
White – Too many

We scored a “white” last year which turned to a “pink” once everybody was moving.

ton - Member
a fat bloke i know is doing it................

I don't actually remember us meeting 😳

ton - Member
a fat bloke i know is doing it................ 😳

Yup..

I'm just about to get my entry sorted..

Hmm apparently I have lady bits. Back in a while...

*wanders off to stare in mirror*

loadsa fat blokes on the back of the starting grid.............i do like a good fatfest..... 8)

I am in.

A FS with semi-slicks wil be suitable, right....?

A FS with semi-slicks wil be suitable, right...

Ride what you like, it won't make the Somme any better. Suffer fest all the way. Utterly excellent, only missed one year of this and I will never miss it again.

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Suffer fest all the way

Marv-view-luss!

The back of the starting grid....

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You got it wrong,

loadsa fat blokes

Entered 😀

'Fat blokes at the back of the starting grid.'
I thought it was the queue for the pie stall, honest. 😥

Have we got any 'slebs' this year?
I think we should invite Lisa Riley - We could do a 'spot the difference' compo.

Lisa Riley, naked and on all-fours, parking for two fat bikes.

Please, please, please edit that last post. 😯

Have we got any 'slebs' this year?

I'm trying to register with BC but I must have done it once before, but not activated my account and now I can't find the activation email, and idea if I can get it resent somehow?
EDIT: never mind, fixed it 🙂

hmmm...you'd have to ask them that. I assume so.

there is a link on the website - f you enter your e-mail or try and register they tell you your username - enter that then ask for your password whihc is then e-mailed to you- confusing eh

Entered 🙂

Aye up, I offered to marshal and didn't even know who the 'sleb' was.
Where are all the ladies (bacon, no sausages).

there are plenty of transgender cyclists signing up, they're kind of ladies.

Entries going at record breaking pace.

Previous best was 100 in 4 days. We're into the 60s in 6 hours!

I'm in...

I've just entered!

Room for a small one at the back…?
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I'm in!

... and cant wait!

I'm in!

Let the sharpening of elbows commence!

Signed up this afternoon. Planning to add a lap each year.....

ooosh.

entered :o)

The two of us are in, no I am not confused the wife's entered again as well 😆

Adding a lap each year would be a good aim for me, going for a full 4 laps for HTN4. Admittedly I could have done another this year, but it had started snowing and I live in the hills in the Peaks so I lurked in the trees at the end.

I'm in. Any practice runs scheduled Mr Spider?

Entered! Perhaps i'll do it on an appropriate bike rather than a 5inch full suss with 2.4 tyres.

Any chance of making the cyclocross mincers step aside while they mince down the first descent? 😉

I'm in - would also like to add another lap this year. Got overtaken by a bloke out for a jog last year (several times...) 😳

Any chance of making the mtb trail warriors step aside while they crawl up every ascent? 😉

I loves sledging....speshly in snow.

Rorschach - Member
Any chance of making the mtb trail warriors step aside while they crawl up every ascent?

He's right you know 😉

Got overtaken by a bloke out for a jog last year (several times...)

I remember him passing me too and he was trying to chat with me, but due to me blowing out my arse I couldn't start a conversation.

I've entered - what age for the youngest race? I know a lad who is about 5 or 6, too young?

Can anyone give a quick synopsis of what the race is like? Is it do as many 3.5 mile laps as you can in 2 hours? And is it as hard and awful as some of you are making out? What's the terrain like, I only have a full susser and don't want to be 'over biked'

Can anyone give a quick synopsis of what the race is like?

Yes.

Is it do as many 3.5 mile laps as you can in 2 hours?

Yes.

And is it as hard and awful as some of you are making out?

It is as hard and awful as you want to make it. It depends on whether you want to turn yourself inside out and try for 6 laps and go round in the bunch and do 3 or 4. With 300 riders on the course you are never going to riding alone for any period of time.

What's the terrain like, I only have a full susser and don't want to be 'over biked'

The lap consists of

Start

Field of Despair - Nasty
MTFU Hill - Nasty
Red grade trail centre berms - Not nasty
The Chin - Short techinical DH
The climb - A climb
Prepataion H - Short techinical DH
Blue grade trail centre stuff with a couple of berms - Easy
The water splash - A water splash
Viaduct Climb - A climb up and over a Victorian railway viaduct
The B@stard - Near vertical muddy carry

Finish

Repeat

A full susser will be fine. Better on some bits, worse on others. The winner will be on a CX because he will have raced all season and will take it seriously.

Then you have to factor in the brass band, the samba band, the excellent catering. the pi55 taking, the enthusiatic marshals and the banter. It will be cold. You will probably get covered in mud, or snow. You will enjoy it.

If it was that bad it wouldn't sell out. If it was too easy it wouldn't sell out either. The plan is to host a race where the competitors feel like they have taken part in something a bit different to their usual Saturday morning ride no matter whether they finish top 10 or bottom 10.

HTH

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Cracking day. Sign up, you'll have a laugh.

British Cycling's website appears to be shagged at the moment, so nobody can enter.
I'm sure it'll be back soon.

pffff

...and now it's back again.
carry on!

Pauline demands chana or she will eat babies and possibly the winner.

Just sent off for my c2w certificate. Subject to it being agreed and my getting a bike. I'm in too!

Well, I'm in. I'll bring my snow chains just in case...

40% of entries gone in first 24 hours!

Better get a wriggle on if you want to come and play.

Bloody hell that didn't take long

Had another 23 since posting that.

So you owe me money for the bump then?