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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: [url= http://edrollasonphotographygalleries.instaproofs.com/store/?page=multipleCategories&event=770797 ]HERE[/url] (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.
+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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As usual, if you really like the picture, I'll be able to send out full resolution images (3000*4000, should print fine at A3 size) but will ask you to make a donation to the charity of your choice. A couple that I've chosen to support recently are these: you may wish to choose one of them, perhaps.
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I'm not going to ask for receipts or anything, just going to leave it to your conscience to donate what you feel the pics (and the participation in the event) are worth. Pleas tag yourselves in photos, and if you use them on facebook or something please add a comment to flickr just so I get an idea opf how far the pics are spreading 🙂
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.
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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 toI'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.
I had pink shorts on, shouldn't forget me too easy...
I took a lot of effort not to 'slip' & whip them all out, regret it now
some nobber on a cx bike yelled at me and junkyard around by the pond too ("i thought it was a race, not a ****ing sunday afternoon joyride").
i'd have forgotten it but it's sad to see that more than just us got some grief off "fast lads" today, kind of puts a bit of a downer on what was an amazing morning for me (set myself a target of hopefully doing 2 laps, ended up doing 3, yay!)
if you're reading this, fast lad, sorry i can't keep up with race pace; i'll try to go back 9 years and not have heart failure and then maybe you won't have to be a dick to me today, eh?
banks - MemberI had pink shorts on, shouldn't forget me too easy...
After I'd taken the cow onesie, you were next.
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....
Yeah, that's where I saw a wannabe hard-man acting like a prize turd too. He'd shouldered his CXer to cross, and some poor lass who was halfway down into the stream got walloped round the head by this git's back wheel after she didn't immediately leap out of his way when he bellowed "MOVE!" at her. ****.
I may have got this wrong, but I was under the impression that HTN is a mixed-ability, mixed-sex race that's meant to be a bit of fun, and not the World CX champs. If you want to get all elbows-out get fast enough to enter a proper men's Elite level thing. If you're not fast enough to do that, STFU and learn some manners.
[Edit: this looks a bit negative, sorry. It was one tiny little blip in an otherwise excellent morning with loads of really nice friendly people. I had a really good time, honest!]
Shame about the obnoxious minority- surely if you don't want to be 'held up' by other riders being too slow, don't enter a race that welcomes everyone!
Makes me giggle when people shout 'rider', as though the people they're overtaking aren't riders themselves!
mintimperial- my thoughts exactly, but you worded it better!
Haha when we were leaving the event and heading back up to the rugby club i shouted "on your right" to a couple of people pushing their bikes. I was just so thrilled to finally overtake someone... 😳
rider 31 on CX bike, if you are on here, I draw your attention to the following rule:
"Any part of the cycle course may be covered on foot but on these occasions the competitors must carry or push their own bike, walking to one side of the path"
So thanks for the push off into the rocks on the water feature, I now have a nice dent in my frame.
for a bit of balance though, the CXer who followed me through the water splash bit on my last lap was very encouraging and his "well done mate" made me actually want to ride faster.
it was probably 99% of the riders who were ace today, maybe 3 or 4 mouthy bellends. sod em, i'm over it!
I totally understand that HTN has a reputation for a friendly event/race and most people are easy going, but come on guys please get real, when you have the likes of Nick Craig there and other top riders who are there to win/do there best for what ever reason is it any wonder that people get frustrated when less able riders happen to get in the way, i.e around the water crossing for example, some people knew as they were approaching that certain section they were unable to ride it, so why not dismount somewhere safe for everyone and then the guys that can ride it can get on so that everyone gets out of the event what they want, we all get frustrated at times and people put a lot of effort in and sometimes get caught up in the heat of the moment, i.e strong words etc, but all in all most bikers i come across are fairly decent people...