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We were hoping for a Terrahawk win too! But it said over on FB that he had early mechanicals. When we went to bed last night he was at 16th. Then this morning he was 6th. He must have ridden like a machine all night.
Congrats all. I am still marvelling at how many mountainous miles (some) people can ride in 24 hours. 🙂
[url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/epicyclo/sets/72157648288349447/ ]I was so far in front I had time to take pics :)[/url]
I have tried to put rider numbers in where possible.
I have also left some blurred pics in just in case the person in the pic wants it.
Feel free to help yourself to any pic for non commercial purposes.
Hi Epicyclo. Did I talk to you? I talked to almost everyone but can't recognize anyone!
What a great time I had! Everyone so friendly and cheerful.
Race for me went very well. I started very relaxed, trying to save energy for the toughest bits of the course, eating and drinking plenty. At night never felt really fatigued or sleepy but lost tons of time trying to reach stuff in my back pockets under 3 layers of clothes. 3 times within 5 minutes the handlebar light attachment came loose and needed to reach multitool in one of those pockets, wearing gloves,etc...Also in that same lap I crashed 3 times in a row in the technical rocky bit after first big climb. Later in the morning felt so good and I was again fast. But I can't cope with the speed Rickie Cotter rode the technical bits. We were swapping positions for the last 3 laps.
This was my first 24h finished race. I had no support but everyone cheered me up when going through pits. Tired and happy now, still in Scotland until Thursday or Friday.
Thanks to everyone involved in the event. It's been superb!
Some things I didn't like:
Course full of bars and gel wraps. I had to stop twice to pick up what I had accidentally dropped.
First time I had to pay for showers in an event, £1 for 3 minutes.
Bike wash free only during race time
Prize giving after race almost empty. Many medals left behind.
What bike did Guy Martin ride on?
That was eventful. 12 hours of mechanicals and a gastric rebellion (causing me to ride with a bog roll in my pocket, 2 trips to the bushes) followed by 12 hours of chasing tired riders in front. I've never ridden 240 miles and only finished 6th before. Well done to all who completed the race on the savage course and to Spook and Fraser for pulling it all together.
Guy was on an Orange Giro.
(Gyro?)
sarpullido - Member
Hi Epicyclo. Did I talk to you? I talked to almost everyone but can't recognize anyone!...
No idea.
Talked to just about everyone. I'm easy to spot though - white beard, wearing a Scotland gillet, and I was on a black 29er single speed with dropbars. 🙂
terrahawk - Member
That was eventful...
Thanks for the encouragement during the race.
One of the nice things about 24 hour racing is the lack of prima donnas barging past or yelling abuse at slower riders, and if anyone is entitled to be a prima donna in 24 hour races, it's you.
Savage is a good description for the course. 🙂
3rd in the 30-34 category. Utterly ruined my knee and had to work like a dog to stay ahead of Captain for the race.
Sitting in work feeling like crud and consuming my own body weight in coffee and ibuprophen. Cycling in was NOT a good idea.
As ever! And he had a fantastic, well deserved result.tazzymtb - Member
Jules rider is storming along
Having seen him speed training down fire Cannock Chase trails on his Fatbike - sounds like a Chinook approaching - it's no surprise.
Some mighty impressive racing.
Curious to know what the course route was. Looks similar to this year's 10 Under from the photos.
It was awesome, really friendly riders giving each other lots of encouragement and so funny hearing all the different accents as the leaders passed you - they really were incredibly polite. Yesterday I never wanted to ride a bike again. Today I want to do another one. (I was the lady with the very squeaky brakes - sorry for the noise!)
Great event once again by nofuss team. Great crack on course with everyone. Some seriously nasty stuff happened to many people on the brutal course. It's a world champs though so it's good that the level is raised all round.
17th overall and won my age cat (limited numbers in that one mind), felt pretty solid through with no major dramas and actually for once got the eating right which makes all the difference.
Massive congrats to Ant White, what a legend and top top bloke, his last 24?! Might give the rest of us a chance now 🙂
Well that was a tough but fun (I think?!) race. Happy to come away with 9th Elite in such a competitive field. Happy for Ant to get second. I still need to sleep it off but I'll try do a report on it soon. Good to see everyone again.
Congrats to all who made it round. What an awesome course..had a bit of everything. I was totally gutted to have to pull out after 8 hours with a recurrence of this bloody ankle injury. Shame as I was within 90 seconds of Brett Bellchambers & feeling ok. Would have been a good tussle I suspect. Oh well, stuff happens. Time to recoup over the winter & focus on Weaverville 2015 for another try at toppling the Aussies 😀
My just about gathered together thoughts are here: https://mattjonesmtb.wordpress.com/
Blimey, that was a trip and a half 😀
Brilliant event, toughest 24 course I've seen yet too.
Mark got 3rd in singlespeed which I just amazing, he wasn't too happy when we told him he had to do another 2 laps toward the end as he though he was in 5th, but then went and knocked 15 mins off his previous lap and then lapped 4th place on his last lap.
Gareth had a touch of the Fort bill belly early stages and then got going picking riders off through out the night but had to stop at 6am due to a badly pulled tendon having ridden for several hours with it until it finally let go, still finished 18th overall and would have finished inside top 10 elite if could have continued.
Thanks to No Fuss for a great event, Peter and Paul Mark's supporters, Alex Gareth's supporter and Stu who helped out after calling it a day after not felling it from previous the weekends race (I'm sorry I convinced you to try another lap)
And Ant White's support from Saddle skedaddle (sorry terrible with names) for the use of the electricity to help run our heater/jet engine which kept the marquee boiling all night 😀
Roll on California next year 😉
michaelmcc - Member
My blog from the weekend!
"the guy with the beard and the strange handlebars" - that was me 🙂
awesome event.
I have raced 10s and 12s solo and 24s in teams of three and four but never solo.
flipping tough climbing course. at 6am I had completely broken after 15 laps. my support team fed me and forced me to sleep for 30mins and bullied me back out on my bike. I did not think I could make the 19laps that was the height of everest climbed at that point.
4 laps later I finished - 19 laps complete 5th in 35-39cat and 55th in the world! I need to race more 24 Solos!
Some great write ups guys. Had a brilliant, brilliant time. Obviously had some big lows, and a bit of digging deep was required on a few occasions. Well worth it though.
Here's my write-up.
"the guy with the beard and the strange handlebars" - that was me
Nice one haha! I hope you managed to battle on a bit longer with the deteriorating eyesight? You were struggling to see at one stage when I saw you!
michaelmcc - Member
Nice one haha! I hope you managed to battle on a bit longer with the deteriorating eyesight? You were struggling to see at one stage when I saw you!
It got even better. 🙂
I think that must have been early symptoms when you passed me because it turned into hallucinations and a fever later.
Finally some words on paper (??). Similar race to Captain, but it dropped me just one place ahead of hi,: [url= http://wp.me/p27he3-EQ ]WEMBO 24hour Worlds[/url]
Worth noting that Kim Hurst while now living in NZ was brought up racing the Welsh, then British XC series. The report on the front page almost makes her out as some kind of novice yet she's been racing mtbs to a high standard for years.
Fun event! I managed 5th in singlespeed.
The course was good at beating the body up - especially on a rigid bike.
I felt pretty bad after 3 hours and had to back off the pace a bit - especially on the descents as my wrists were very sore. By the end I'd recovered a bit and felt like I could have kept going for a while.
Kim has also placed 2nd in the BC bike race, won the karapoti and been a general machine in NZ for quite a while now.
Newcomer to 24hr solo racing though I think? I think that is either her second or third race, 2 of which have been WEMBO champs.
Quite a few successful 12hr races under her belt though and has raced World Cup XC (including at Fort Bill!)
I've been looking without much success for photos of the race.
Anything other than what has been published here.
Searching on flickr only produce a few pics.
Try Anthony Pease Photography - [url=
to FB[/url] & image set.
I was snapped a few times in the dark but can't find any night time photos of me 🙁 . Same for anyone else?
Hello.
I was up at the race taking lots of photos, and promised to put a load of them online just after I got back. Unfortunately, I then came down with a horrific cold, which pretty much knocked me out until today. Back on my feet again, and playing catch up, so I'm going to (finally) sort out the photos, put them online, and come back here later on and post a link.
They'll all be free to download, but I've no idea if I got you. I'm not a pro like Anthony though, so don't complain about quality 😉
Thanks Toby.
[url= http://www.xcracer.com/wembo-world-24-hour-champs.html ]Ant Whites Blog[/url] has just appeared on XC racer, there's also another blog on there from sonme guy that goes my the handle of XCwanabe if you really have too much spare time.
Thank you all for a spectacular race. It was wonderful to support you through all race and take your photos full of enthusiasm, determination and a good mood, even in difficult moments.
Photo reportage is here: https://plus.google.com/photos/+MariusKaitulis/albums/6071888707832394081
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Thanks toby, great pics