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rossendalelemming - You're ideally qualified. You'll still be having to wait at the top of every climb 😀
As I couldn't ride, I've just been looking at pictures, (love that one of the orange clad CXer going OTB) and the Strava route of the new course, and inadvertently I've stumbled on what appears to be a 1/2 lap shortcut on a riders Strava.
Shop or not?
Dob or don't?
I know it's a relaxed race and it's not a podium botherer, but it's definitely not cricket. #whatwouldbinnersdo
Stop and have a chat with absolutely everyone, wait for me to catch up, wait another five minutes 'to let the fast lads and lasses to go through' and then wobble down the fun bits.
That's what Binners would do.
I adopted his approach of 'not really bothering' this year with great success.
It hurts much less and you get to meet the nicest people.
🙂
Heh, good point.
Did Sue marshall again? Did she have Vimto? Perhaps these are the important questions of the day.
She did.
🙂
She's moaning because she wasn't at the bottom of Mt Doom.
Missed all the carnage.
😐
Recognised loads of the marshalls from previous years, very, very funny and a top job as always.
I guess etiquette depends on your perspective. For me riding slowly at the back then I was pleased to find that the 'elite' were pretty polite this year as they piled past me. Not a great deal of arrogance from the 'riders'!
For them I guess they would be more concerned about how quickly the elderly lard asses got out of the way and if I can speak on belhalf of the MNPR collective then I hope they found us very accommodating!
With regards to the 'cheating' I guess you pretty much only cheat yourself, but if your prepared to cheat then you take the risk of being caught... name and shame I say (or at least post a link to a strava activity for independent verification!).
Finally, anyone dumb enough to go through the start / finish had to bypass the ever increasing hoard of lurkers and deserves a 'no placing' for their schoolboy error! 😀
inadvertently I've stumbled on what appears to be a 1/2 lap shortcut on a riders Strava.
Get the pitch forks, there be cheats in the woods
Yes, the marshalls are just one of the brilliant things about HtN.
I managed to drag myself recovering body round into 44th place, so considering the amount of antibiotics and other pills ive consumed in the last 4 weeks I'll take that.
Big thanks to Jason for all the work as it was ace and to the nice Karen lady for looking after my jacket / phone / keys.
Oof, just noticed Louis faceplanting on John's video.
Hope you're ok fella.
The half lapper may be me... But if it is it's actually an EXTRA half lap - somehow managed to miss a turn not far before the end of the first lap (just after the twisty drop through the trees) and ended up doing half of it again!
I'm no threat to the pointy end though so it wouldn't make much difference either way. 😆
52nd place. Pretty pleased with that. Never done a 'short' race before and I start slowly and didn't get much faster or slower.!! Great course. Managed to ride the big uphill every time and only stopped on the downhill as a couple of guys pressed eject in front of me!. Massive thanks to Jase and all everyone involved including all the other riders.
It's not you Dingleberry, (unless you use a very different name on your Strava account to your user profile on here) but following the route round it seems mystery rider did the same as you. Which leaves two points.
1. Hard luck mystery rider, (and you Dingleberry) you'd have come higher up the placings but for your mistake.
2. Discretion really is the better part of valour, I'm bloody glad didn't go charging in feet first and make myself look like a right arse. 😳 Sorry.
I was one of the people who went wrong. It certainly wasn't cheating!
In the cut and thrust and tunnel vision of the first lap I (and some behind me) followed a chap I was chasing the wrong way after the ride down the boggy stream descent (failing to turn left onto the "trail centre" singletrack) and ended up doing an extra loop before arriving back on the course where we had left it.
Annoying as I must have lost a fair few places, as others around me were going at a similar pace.
I ended up in 26th.
I passed Binners twice, at exactly the same place each time.
Make that 27th, not 26th! D'oh.
Grrr.
In the cut and thrust and tunnel vision of the first lap I (and some behind me) followed a chap I was chasing the wrong way after the ride down the boggy stream descent (failing to turn left onto the "trail centre" singletrack) and ended up doing an extra loop before arriving back on the course where we had left it
😳
Haha.
Before the start I had been hoping for a top 20 finish, but I didn't help myself doing that.
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October you say? Get your diaries out folks.
As long as it's not Halloween weekend (Relentless) I'm in.
HTN 6 - I'm well up for another go. 🙂
Maybe I'll put some less bald tires on this time, and learn to deal with mud better!
I'm sure I could have done much better if I wasn't spending most of the lap going slow just trying to stay upright. 😳
I've always struggled with mud, on the MTB and motocross/enduro bikes (in the past) - need help with it to be honest!
^^ just keep pedalling hard
Got to love the HtN mud.
Sewage with a hint of landfill, bleach and typhoid.
Just a whiff makes me come over all unnecessary about it....
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Embrace the mud.
Bring it on......
🙂
HTN 6. Yeh why not. I'll have saved enough by then to replace my drivetrain again!!!.