Really? Is that common at this sort of event? Sounds like a massive waste to me.

I spoke to so many people that pulled out after practice. More fool them as the race conditions were perfect. There were 200 E2 places and only 171 started. A good chunk of them must have rode the practice days and decided not to bother. Some may have had mechanicals but anyone I spoke to pulled out because they weren’t up for it, rather than being forced out.

I suppose in E1 there’d be some serious folks who were out of contention after a day and just didn’t want to keep racing and taking risks for nothing. And people that limped to the end of the stages, etc. In E2 I think there were quite a few just caught out by the sheer difficulty

(yeah I know we’ve been over this… But at innerleithen, what we tend to get is race stages that are challenging, but most decent riders can at least get down them slowly, and they’re just very hard to ride fast. And no doubt other folks thought Glentress = Mincing. Peaty did!)

It’s a bloody shame there couldn’t be a last minute subs list though. But otoh shrinkage helps race organisers- day 1 ran right to the last minute, if there’d been another 20 people to get through stage 4 some of them would have missed the final cutoff.

Oh… But I think there was another thing, which is that it ended up being a 5 day event and there wasn’t much warning of that, so there were tons of people who couldn’t practice, others who’d basically planned for a sunday race instead of 2 days racing, etc. Life stops play. I took the week off to do other Tweedlove stuff and dig stages and that, so it worked out.

I took a lot of bad photos, here are some of the more gooder ones

[url=https://flic.kr/p/nxY4fE]P1090023_[/url] by bigjimski, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQsBS8]P1090041_[/url] by bigjimski, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/nxY7Uf]P1090196_[/url] by bigjimski, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/nNpYxW]P1090244_[/url] by bigjimski, on Flickr

What a fantastic weekend.

Goals were:
Finish.
Finish alive.
Don’t come last.

Goals all achieved. Result!

I’m not sure if they read this but we met the nicest family when we finished day 1. Their kid was asking us all for signatures when we clocked in and then they gave us the rest of their chips.

Wysiwyg – any photos of 461 at all? Neon Yellow bike

Thanks to you all!

nah 80 out of 300 is very unusual Id say that less than 5% would pull out of a tough UKGE like Ae or Inners

A couple of the guys we saw on thursday practice pulled out,I think they were really struggling with the climbs, even though they were better on the downs than me

and getting to the top of a full on super steep techy descent when your already shagged is quite scary

some people just decided that the risk wasnt worth it, I suppose that if your priority is job, family etc and you reckon theres a high risk of injury then I can kind of see why, even the organisers admitted this was the techiest round theyd run so far

still its a big shame considering that the event was so over-subscribed and the runs had dried out a fair bit by saturday and were actually quite grippy on sunday for teh GT trails

ps, wysiwig any other pics of 164
pps who do i get into burlesque photography 😉

[url=https://flic.kr/p/ny11Z5]20140601-IMG_1453.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/ny1zNZ]20140601-IMG_1379.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQqLCN]20140601-IMG_1365.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nxZZQS]20140601-IMG_1340.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQqLa3]20140601-IMG_1337.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQqKWN]20140601-IMG_1279.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQco2P]20140531-IMG_0882.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQaQvV]20140531-IMG_0941.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nxYcvi]20140531-IMG_0850.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQaQ5V]20140531-IMG_0707.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQsRJM]20140531-IMG_0650.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQpbkm]20140601-IMG_1469.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQru7u]20140601-IMG_1268.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr

Anyone who wants a pic if you could paypal me @ wysiwygphotography@gmail.com add your race number and email address to send the pic to the note please.

Look like a great event.

There was a segment on the new BBC Scotland programme which was shown tonight –

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b045p8bt/on-the-road-2014-episode-1

Brilliant pics wysiwyg. Did you get any of 439, 473 or 563 from day 2?

What a joke that BBC program was, “We’re here at the country’s biggest cycling event, but let’s not talk about that, let’s do a photography feature. Oh there’s a world series race? Who cares.” Bag o shite.

That’s the BBC for you, it’s not like it’s funded by us or anything.

Awesome weekend, the trails were tough & it was hard work but loved most of it, there were a few ‘dark’ moments on the climbs but hey.

Goals were to finish and not come last, achieved both of those so pretty happy…

[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQsNJh]20140531-IMG_0957.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQsPj5]20140531-IMG_0958.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr

justin nothing that high, only saw a few e2 on each stage as had to hit stage 4 from 3 and leg it home after e1 on stage 4

No worries, I guess that’s the price you pay for being lazy and pushing up the climbs.

Double post

To all those that have mailed me, bit late now so give me a day to go through and properly sharpen them up etc. Cheers guys.

wysiwyg

Did you say you had any pictures of 181?

Cheers!

Have a gap from 180 to 186 sorry

hi mate, any pics of 418 and 415?

awesome weekend, with some fantastic otb action from myself

415 check, pos 418, what bike?

[url=https://flic.kr/p/nypwzF]20140531-IMG_0955.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr

Anything of 204 or ladies number 20?
Some great pics in there!

418 is a nukeproof mega. Lime green giro helmet. Cheers fo the other picture.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/nR8gnG]20140601-IMG_1076.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQUaWe]20140601-IMG_1302.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQUbs4]20140601-IMG_1303.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQUjhc]20140531-IMG_0959.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nP9Q33]20140531-IMG_0960.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nRcwgT]20140531-IMG_0462.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr

Phew, anyone ive missed?

463, 455, 269 (usually found together in that sequence!)?? good effort on all the photography!

[url=https://flic.kr/p/nR5kaA]20140531-IMG_0862.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQVErP]20140531-IMG_0860.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr

No 269 anywhere? What bike/kit? Odd

If you lot all enjoyed it so much, how come none of you are smiling? 😀

Some cracking shots there, any of 270?

[url=https://flic.kr/p/nyJVDh]20140531-IMG_0921.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr

This guys having fun, or very frightened.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/nPcf9A]20140601-IMG_1363.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nyKj2W]20140601-IMG_1492.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nR6hc9]20140531-IMG_0741.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr

Wysiwyg – Do you have my two riding buddies 253 and 570? Will be in touch for a hi-res copy of the one of myself. Cheers.

Hi, how about 175? I saw your earlier one, but would be interested in others.

Cheer

[url=https://flic.kr/p/nyL9gv]20140601-IMG_1277.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/nPdwWw]20140531-IMG_0969.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nR7GAN]20140531-IMG_0724.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nyLiTr]20140601-IMG_1351.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nyMb9K]20140601-IMG_1481.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr

Hi, can you confirm you have shots of n#100 before I paypall etc..cheers Martyn.

Martyn nothing from day one for some reason sorry.

[url=https://flic.kr/p/nQYrMe]20140601-IMG_1218.jpg[/url] by wysiwyg_photography, on Flickr

Wysiwyg, how much are you looking for the photos?

Wysiwyg, do you have one of 404 going off the drop on Sundays last stage?

Wysiwyg – riding mates 37 and 540 also please. Thanks very much.