In a moment of madness a few months ago I agreed to ride in a Team of 4 at the Strathpuffer 24 hour MTB race near Inverness. Unfortunatley for various reasons this is now a team of 2, Alan Hartley and Myself riding as ‘bmbo.org.uk’ (British Mountain Bike Orienteering
Held just outside of Contin about 25 miles north of Inverness the Strathpuffer 24 is known as the most challenging 2.jpg "Strathpuffer Logo")
4 hour enduro race in the UK, as being in January there is often snow and because of the latitude not much daylight so lots of night riding. The big question over the weekend was ‘is it still on’ but the organisers have had teams out clearing the snow from the single-tracks and it is, as long as we can get there.
So Alan and I are currently getting our kit together and talking about the relative merits of spending £80 each on ice tyres (we aren’t and will just wing it but to be honest we cant find any in the UK anyway)
Our current plan is for me to start and do 2 or 3 laps and then settle in to 3 to 4 lap stints depending on the laptimes. As you tuck yourself into bed on Saturday night, please spare a thought for us camping in the snow !
Throughout the event Sportident UK will be displaying live results at
http://lappedenduro.sportident.co.uk/home/event/publicresults.html?&eventid=906b739d-b5c2-4b38-a255-3373ba5f2567
so you can see how we are doing……..