Midwinter Madness race next Feb in Wigan

Anyone know anything about it?

It looks like it could be interesting.

Twitter @MidwinterMadMTB

Post on the midweek mtb madness facebook page says 23rd feb, details to follow.

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Sounds like it mught be related to the midweek madness races series, didn’t they hold one at haigh hall thius year?

I know one of the organisers. 2 hour “race” for all categories shapes and sizes. Its going to use a bit more of the Haigh Hall estate than the midweek race to give a much longer lap down past the canal (if you know it). Bit of singletrack, fair bit of mud, couple of tricky descents and a couple of scrambles up muddy banks theres a couple of stretches of tarmac and footpath for a bit of respite too. Its also coming up to near the cafe/kids playground using some of the course that was used for the midweek madness race so any WAGs, kids, or other interested parties will get to watch the suffering in between fuelling up on coffee and cake. CX and MTB bikes welcome or for that matter anything you could class as a bicycle will be welcome.
Apparently free hot sandwich from the cafe for pre entries too! Mate was telling me he’s just got to jump through some BC related hoops before entries go live on the BC website so give the twitter feed a follow to make sure you don’t miss out on a free butty!
Apparently there will also be kids races as well using the top section of the course.

Sounds like a winner to me and a welcome race/event to look forward to due to HTN unfortunately not being run this year, sounds very similar IMO what with being able to use Cross bikes as well as Mountain bikes.. 😀

That’s the same day as the Cannock Chase Winter race, which I’ve already entered. Bugger.
Not brilliant planning, as there’s definitely some catchment area overlap there.

Shame about Cannock being the same day but hey I know that free food is a winner for me.
Seriously though Wigan council are mad keen for this and they asked for an event to be promoted there. If this is a success then hopefully it can lead to more races there. There’s loads of trails at haigh hall to potter round. I’m definitely going to be helping out marshalling and working on the course with them. Hopefully we can add a CX there next winter too, it would be a great venue for a rapha supercross style event

It’s good to see Wigan council wanting to help out with letting you have events/races there and a cross race next year would be great!! It all can only be good for the area and hopefully other council’s in other area’s will feel the same and either start or continue to support biking events/races in the North West for years to come.

This is brilliant news. Fingers crossed I can get up for it (originally an Ashton lad)

Well done Wigan council for a bit of positive and forward thinking and good luck to the organisers for stepping up and giving it a go.

Oh yeah, I couldn’t agree more with all that posted above, just disappointed I can’t do both!.

Might have a bash at this. Cheers for the nod

What kind of distance is it?

Bit of a hike to Wigan but might be up for it.

Apparently this will go live on Monday for entries and is limited to 150…Going to need to be very lucky!!

As far as you want it to be! If you want to stop for a coffee and a butty after a lap nobody will think any less of you

Any idea on the price and the length of the course?

Heard it’s £18 per entry and a lap is around the 20 minute mark…

Price is one of BC’s hoops the organiser is jumping through. Mechanical issues today prevented us riding a full lap in one go so watch this space will know more next weekend on that. We are aiming for a 20 min lap give or take

OK everyone entries have gone live on BC’s website

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/103723/Midwinter-Madness-presents-#summary

First come first served.

I’ll be busy stepping off a flight from Tenerife on the 23rd so I’m out, unfortunately. well, kind of unfortunately. I’ll have been in Tenerife for a week 🙂
Hope it all goes well.

Racing at Cannock that day or I’d done it

Shame its the same day as Cannock but thats the day we were offered the venue. Hopefully theres more than enough riders to go round to make both events a success

Just to point out BC Membership is not required to enter online via the BC website, you simply have to register on their website to allow you to use their entry system it doesnt cost anything to register.

Sounds great, I’ll have to give it a go since Haigh Hall is my usual destination for a quick blast anyway.

Entered and posted details on the Here Come the Belgians Facebook page and my Leeds road club, you fill it no problem nixxl 😀

Sorted i’m entered and looking forward to it!!! 😀

Entered.

Will hopefully get a Go Pro sneak preview up soon……watch this space…..

We are now 1/3 full after just 2 days so if you are thinking about entering do it sooner rather than later. Again you dont have to be a BC member to ride you just need to register on the BC website which only takes a couple of minutes.

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/103723/Midwinter-Madness-presents-#about

Down to only 33 places left in this I notice. Should be a good cobweb duster after winter.

I know this didnt get a big response on here but I just thought I’d say the event seemed to be a massive success, I think we surprised ourselves in what we achieved in just over 10 weeks from concept to race day.
We had over 150 entries and all the starters got to enjoy a 4 mile technical mudfest lap around Haigh Hall.
Lezyne Sponsored the event and gave us some great prizes, the results should be up on BC’s website soon.
Mens event was won by Nick Craig with Giles Drake battling him nearly all the way to the end. Dan Wells was an excellent 3rd Place.
The Womens race was won by Becky Preece who put in probably the most impressive ride of all on the day finishing in the top 15 overall. Second was Annie Simpson who wasnt far behing Becky until a heavy crash forced her to fall back. Emma Osenton was 3rd.
Massive respect to the people riding cross bikes on a course that probably suited MTB’s more and the guy on the fixed cross bike was just mental!
Thanks to the Marshals, Judges, all the helpers, Wigan Leisure for facilitating the use of Haigh Hall and organising the catering.
Thanks for all the riders for making it a great day.

We will be back, maybe sooner than you would expect with another event there so watch this space!

Oh and a massive thanks to Harry the Sider for the advice it proved invaluable