Was thinkin of doing some XC races in the UK next year, what are the equivalent catagories for masters over there? what's the standard like? and what are the best courses? or more importantly which ones are definately not worth the trip?
last time I raced over ther was the mid 90's, But from what I remember the coarses were not very technical compared to here, I would stay away from races in scotland simply because it rains even more that here up there, So unless you like racing in slomp, Go south.
Wales is not far from the car ferry and they have some great mountains with good trails.
here's some good websites over there.
Doing 60km in 28 degree's heat on rough old jeep tracks, and singletracks with 4500 riders in wave of 500 up the hills surrounding Frejus in the south of france was deffinetly not a load of nonsence, Maybe about 8km of fireroad, But the jeep tracks were good fun, they even had the coarse going along a beach passed restaurants, where everybody was cheering you on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Zpbr9-H9Q
This is typical of what the coarse is, Took me 3:18 last year even with blowing up, Next year I want to get under 3 hours.
Lads its about time we took the whole XC racing thing seriously, I have big XC plans for us next year, all wil be revealed before the end of the year and hopefully at the Club AGM in October.
you should get a few teams into the trans alp or trans rockies. Us downhillers have represented the club at the mega its about time you xc boys stopped being a bunch of lay abouts and pulled your fingers out
[QUOTE=al Us downhillers have represented the club at the mega its about time you xc boys stopped being a bunch of lay abouts and pulled your fingers out.[/QUOTE]
Who are you calling Lay about, Right thats it, Im quiting the job, selling the house and going pro MTBer.
both of those events sound like a load of fire road nonsense from what i've heard and from the people i know that have signed up. Bleedin sports riders have done them. So maybe theres something a little more savage that could be done.
Was thinkin of doing some XC races in the UK next year, what are the equivalent catagories for masters over there? what's the standard like? and what are the best courses? or more importantly which ones are definately not worth the trip?
last time I raced over ther was the mid 90's, But from what I remember the coarses were not very technical compared to here, I would stay away from races in scotland simply because it rains even more that here up there, So unless you like racing in slomp, Go south.
Wales is not far from the car ferry and they have some great mountains with good trails.
here's some good websites over there.
Doing 60km in 28 degree's heat on rough old jeep tracks, and singletracks with 4500 riders in wave of 500 up the hills surrounding Frejus in the south of france was deffinetly not a load of nonsence, Maybe about 8km of fireroad, But the jeep tracks were good fun, they even had the coarse going along a beach passed restaurants, where everybody was cheering you on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Zpbr9-H9Q
This is typical of what the coarse is, Took me 3:18 last year even with blowing up, Next year I want to get under 3 hours.
Lads its about time we took the whole XC racing thing seriously, I have big XC plans for us next year, all wil be revealed before the end of the year and hopefully at the Club AGM in October.
you should get a few teams into the trans alp or trans rockies. Us downhillers have represented the club at the mega its about time you xc boys stopped being a bunch of lay abouts and pulled your fingers out
[QUOTE=al Us downhillers have represented the club at the mega its about time you xc boys stopped being a bunch of lay abouts and pulled your fingers out.[/QUOTE]
Who are you calling Lay about, Right thats it, Im quiting the job, selling the house and going pro MTBer.
both of those events sound like a load of fire road nonsense from what i've heard and from the people i know that have signed up. Bleedin sports riders have done them. So maybe theres something a little more savage that could be done.
