Just the thread I was looking for, and will follow with interest … Got my Singletrack 2018 calendar to fill up! 🙂
I turn 50 this year, so was wanting to do some new ‘challenges’ … and have a new bike on the way to put through its paces.
Balancing what I want to do, with what time I will have available, will be the trick / challenge, and it may well be that it will have to become a decade of challenges! And the money – available cash has bought the new bike, but I still need bike-packing gear / entry fees etc!
So far, musing on:
1. Dirty Reiver – done it the last 2 years, so not sure I will enter again;
2. Turin-Nice in September – would be a great trip, trouble is I think I’ve probably spent my air-fare on the new bike,. so funding this might be the problem …
3. 3PCX – first time last year, definitely got unfinished business! Only takes a day out so would fit in well with other commitments
4. The ‘This is not a tour’ Welsh Audax bike rides in the spirit of Mike Hall – possibly the 400km event.
5. One or some of the ‘Racing Collective’ Cross-duro events
6. Possibly a 24 hour or a marathon MTB event?
7. One or two weekends away with the lads, playing on MTB’s in the mountains (North Wales, Lakes), enjoying beers and having laugh’s.