Mountain Mayhem
Well Mayhem it certainly was. There is a lesson here in how to cope with the wheels totally falling off a team event. Mixed team of ten soon depleted down to 5 with motivation to grind it out for a podium position rapidly diminished. The answer is to have fun, drink a little beer and even have a little sleep through the night. It makes it much more fun.
I think it may have started with my nightmare of crashing on the 1st lap and dislocating my finger and not registering a lap time. Although not a major injury I was thinking Marmotte in 2 weeks, can’t really f*ck that up so bowed out, leaving Oli, Lea, Frazer, Matt and Julie to it. Luckily Scottish Phil turned up at night time to plumb in a few laps, the beer bottles had been popped by that time though. I won’t look at the results or comment on how we did.
The new ‘Lezyne Bridge’ feature through the campsite was a cool addition to the course.
It wasn’t all bad though, the remaining team members had some blinding laps and Oli won the Kenda climb with a blisteringly quick 47 seconds. In a way it was one of the best Mayhems as the stress of chasing results had gone and incredibly it remained quite dry!
Well done to South Downs Bikes teams, 2 podiums, nice one!
