Nothing too exciting but BPW and Snowdon are on the list and, hopefully, 417 will get the go ahead and open up too. And I’d like to get some more uplift days in this year

Jan 1st – tell the hangover to do one, and ride up to Frankenstein’s Castle
July – must be mad to go back to Morzine… with a hardtail 😈

nothing else specific planned yet

Strathpuffer

Fred Whitton (if i get in)

Full PMBA Enduro Series

And possibly maybe a Morzine weekend

New bike, with them new fangled gear thingies. Ride some natural stuff further afield in the Shires.

My list of things to do is more or less the same as last year’s- did some great riding but didn’t actually do much ticking of boxes. So alrady got a couple of enduros and the glentress seven in, hoping to do the scottish and irish EWS rounds and the trans-wales thing if I can get in… Other than that, just more quality riding, get down to south wales, up to sligachan and torridon, maybe finally do the west highland way which I’ve said I’ll do next year, every year since I got on a bike…

Ah, you know what, who cares, I had a great 2014 on the bike despite doing almost nothing I’d planned so it’s just not important

Tweedlove Enduro
MT Teide, Tenerife
Hopefully the Alps (again! <fingers crossed smiley>)
Western Isles or Orkney

Snowdon early morning for sunrise
Tour of the national forest sportive
Hopefully get back to the lakes
MTB Marathon
Cotswolds
More roadie stuff

Got a couple of events lined up already.

Dyfi Winter Warmup
Coed Y Brenin Antifreeze
Dyfi Enduro
Snowdon, done it a couple of times but need to go back as it was brilliant
Couple of Mini Enduros along with UKGE possibly
10 Under the Ben too hopefully.

Should be a good year. Heres to hoping

Lots of long rides that aren’t in forests. Some bikepacking. A foreign trip or two.

Long distance CX’er “sportives” (or whatever you’d call them) things like Lakeland Monster CX and that other one in Grizedale. I’ll seek out all the others, may even do a Wiggle offroader thingumybob (get me) and then I’ll ride my Roadie over there >> in that France and will be hacking all over the Vosges and then bit further south to ride the Mistral and do the MontyVonty et all down that way.

I have some rides to tick off next year..

Should be great, looking forward to it.

Got a few of plans and lots of i wants.

Got a week in Scotland to ride the 7stanes,
#mtbmeetup on April 18th (check twitter if you fancy it),
Riding twentyfour12 in July,

Want to finally visit BPW,
Ride snowdon,
Do an overnight ride somewhere,

Plus many many other things that no doubt work and family life will intervene with.

july i’ll be doing the tour du mont blanc (three countries ) with my mates for a 50th celebration 🙂

My plans so far…
-Some Local XC and CX races (FNSS, Midlands XC…)
-A couple of weeks of alpine bikepacking over the summer
-A few peaks/lakes 2-4 day bikepacking trips
-HONC if I feel like it

Just to add.. I’ve just read CXSportive have joined up with Wiggle and are doing a 100mile SDW hack on the 4th of July..

I’ll be well up for this..

They’re doing a few more events that take my fancy too..

Looking busy already int’it.. 8)

I had a sniff at this for the big 30 next year but decided I’d never get fit enough to do it. Doing it at 50.. wow! Respect.

Grand raid (swiss) in the diary for August along with a weeks road biking in Sardinia in March, a couple of weeks in the alps in July and as much as possible everywhere else!

Quite fancy the epic Cymru event if I can get out of work. Dyfi enduro if I can get an entry.

Dutch 24hr racing on a fatty, Bristol bike vfest, 24/12 & as many other people’s trails as possible. Any invite considered

Hopefully the big one next year will be the world champs in Andorra, I just have to get selected by BC. If I don’t get into the team, I’ll probably head down that way anyway, give the British riders a cheer and have an explore of the area.

Other than that, I’d like to do some of the UCI junior series rounds in Europe, some of the French, Dutch and Belgian nationals alongside the British ones, and all the standard local XC races.

Towards the end of the year I’d quite like to give an enduro a go, although it might be a bit tricky unless I get hold of a bike that isn’t a 100mm XC hardtail 😕

And most of all I just want to ride in the sun, this rain and cold is reet grim.

India with MTB Kerala Dec Jan
Weekend MTB Wales Afan BPW Cwm Carn etc
Majoric road training camp April
Peak District MTB weekend
Poland Beskidy enduro
Trans Rockies Jul
Sacred rides ultimate British Columbia Aug
Enjoy late summer autumn on UK trails

Normal amount of MTB in between Quanttocks, Wales, Exmoor, FOD

Possibly a week road riding in Cyprus in February
Paris-Roubaix challenge – last year for us as it’s gotten too big now and it’s getting fuller of Brit Mamils with no manners
Maratona dles Dolomites again, but with a week getting there via the French Alps and then getting back via the Schwarzwald and the Ardennes.
Thinking about doing either one or two of the following Dirty 40/ Three Peaks USA/ Iron Cross depending upon timing.
Intending to ride Battle on the Beach with a bit of time before riding some of the South Wales trails
Also Bontrager 24/12, Bristol Oktoberfest and maybe Bikefest…

So far.

Usual local club rides.
Usual monthly club trips a bit further afield
Week in the Lakes in February (Whinlatter and some natural depending on conditions).
North Wales weekend in mid-May (Antur and something natural)
Week in North Wales in July.
Ard Rock in August.
Possible Glentress/Inners weekend in September.