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Gorrick 100
May 4th, 2010
Filed under: Team – by: James Leavesley 8:25 am
After the last few weeks of great weather I was hoping for a dry and fast race at Swinley forest for the Gorrick 100, but this wasn’t to be the case. It rained pretty much all day which turned the course into brake eating mud. Saying that, it could have been a lot worse and the course was still fun and quite fast.
The season ahead
April 26th, 2010
Filed under: Team – by: James Leavesley 8:30 am
After a quiet first few months of the due to my wife giving birth to a baby boy in Feb, I am back ready and raring to go. Although its been quiet in terms of racing, training has been going well. I am down a little in volume but pretty pleased with the amount I have been able to fit in around nappy changing feeding and understanding a crying baby!
Yak Attack – The Final Days
March 29th, 2010
Filed under: News, Team – by: Paul Errington 5:22 pm
With all the substantial climbing over there was only one stage left… 67km in length and mostly descending with a fair bit of ‘Uptulating’ terrain to take us from Muktinath to Tatapani… and the promise of a relaxing hot spring.
The day started not so well as not long into the first jeep track descent i noticed my forks were sitting almost at the bottom of their travel and with no shock pump there was nothing i could do to try and remedy this… maybe an issue with altitude.
So now riding what was essentially a fully rigid bike (i suppose i should be used to this) i made my way down the first descent to the first flatter section of the day… a ride along the dry river bed to Jomson… at this point i past the Swedish guys.. Andreas and Martin.. who had suffered a flat on one of the many cobble we were riding over, Andreas had gone off super fast making the most of his very well trained bike handling skills but had slowed mid downhill so himself and Martin could ride out the last stage together.
Yak Attack… Breathing thin air
March 29th, 2010
Filed under: News, Team – by: Paul Errington 5:20 pm
With limited internet access for the last 3 days its not been possible to blog the race as it happened. Today we are in Manang at 3540m, a rest day to acclimatise before the next climb upto 4450m.
The last 3 days have gone like this -
Yak Attack Stage 2 – Spinning Out..
March 11th, 2010
Filed under: News, Team – by: Paul Errington 7:39 pm
After a transition stage group ride yesterday of 50km with a healthy serving of both up and down we found ourselves in Gorka.. the old capital of Nepal.
Stage 2, Gorka to Besi Sahar, 60km… the days stage was sold as a half and half, jeep track and sealed tarmac rode.. on paper it didn’t sound too tough although with that much tarmac involved it was never going to be a singlspeed friendly day and best I could hope for was to minimise losses.
The day started with a descent of around 6-7km, not too rough but pretty rutted as rain has carved the surface into multiple channels to choose from… the jeep track flowed from reddish clay, to grass then into villages and back onto the familiar dusty brown surface of the last 2 days…
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