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[Closed] Nobody doing the Ritchey Trail Masters?

 tlr
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Anybody else going down to deepest, wettest Wales for this event tomorrow?

I'm heading down this afternoon, and at least the forecast has improved a tiny bit; looking merely wet now rather than biblical.


 
Posted : 16/08/2012 8:59 am
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it looks ace.

but...

200km and 6500m of climbing?

😯

i'll leave it for the non-weaklings.

(and it's £175)


 
Posted : 16/08/2012 9:10 am
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but...

200km and 6500m of climbing?

i'll leave it for the non-weaklings.

(and it's £175)

Better value than the average enduro?

No repettative laps a-la SITS/MM/24-12.
More downhill than you'd get in 3 days uplifting (or probably 3 weekednds at a race).

It does look absolutely brutal though, but isn't it usualy the STW moan that the Gravity Enduro has become too DH biased, then again at Innerleithern on Sunday I was overtaken by an 'Elite' DHer (I know this as I google stalked him after finding out who he was on Strava, he did the entire XC loop in under the hour, and the climb in 30min! In perspective I took a leisurely aproach of riding the easy bits and pushing the steep bits and it took me almost 2 hours from the car park to the top! Thankfully I wans't so far behind him on the down which was a plesant surprise.


 
Posted : 16/08/2012 9:25 am
 tlr
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It's not the 220km that worries me, or the 6500m. It's the rain, midges and camping!

I get the impression that there may not be many doing it as entries are still open.


 
Posted : 16/08/2012 11:08 am