www.transenduromtb.com
trans-madeira.com
Stone King Rally is Trans Provence people afaik.
Everyone knows I've had a break from biking so I assume it's you. My fitness level is I will pull my back just from standing too fast. Only did running for 2 years.
The BC Bike Race is a multi-day marathon XC event, not enduro stages. Still looks like awesome riding though
Report back please. I'm super interested in that one. I'm actually a bit nervous about security and crime situation there. The only guy I know that has done it so far said it wasn't a place you'd want to travel if you didn't have to.
Riding trails blind adds a huge amount of spice in a lot of regards, but its also amazing what you can get away with when you've realised too late what you're about to do.
I forgot to mention, the great thing about the Trans events is untimed liasons/no stage start times. As long as you don't fuck about, you can walk the pinchy/hard climbs if you really want and you'd still get through the days ok provided you don't dilly-dally.
I didn't do any gym stuff, just a mix of XC and Enduro riding mixed up with jogging and gravel bike spins for light intensity.
I have had some gym experience from the good old days of training for DH Racing only to spend whole seasons crashing in every race. So I'm good here. My main need to train is to offset the idiocy that was 2 years of home office and working from the couch. My back muscles are done. I run 3-7 days a week so the cardio is ok.
I only do it because I didn't have enough time and it's the fastest way to do some cardio. Plus usually before I remember I hate running I am already moving.
I started running/jogging back when I broke my hand the first time. Lost shit loads of weight and when I got back onto the bike the change was amazing. Broke the hand/finger again and started jogging again to offset the beers and same result. Ended up doing a few half marathons (slowly) while I was getting the hand surgeries sorted. Trying to keep short jogs going to some extent now just for the health benefits, plus its a good way to clear the grey matter.
It's an expensive addiction, but worth it. I've seen so much more stuff doing these races than I would ever have found doing holidays exploring on my own. Racing blind is a whole new of challenges as well.
I use runs to catch up on industry podcasts I follow. Keeps me up to date while training. Want to try some half marathons soon too. As long as I'm not a triathlon bro I'm fine
Wife and I did it in 2016, wouldn't do it again.
Why not? Not your cup of tea? Bad vibe or something? The video coverage I've seen makes me not wanna do it, but the pictures of the trails show some really nice stuff even if they are cherry-picking a bit.
Logistically you spend a lot of time waiting around, e.g. for transfers to actually happen.
Fair point. I'm a crappy climber and my "XC bike" is basically a mini-enduro so I spend most XC events getting passed on the climbs and then annoyed on the descents.
Back in the early 90s when I last raced (mid pack) XC I used to refer to those guys as "skittles". As re-passing them and knocking a few over or riding their wheel until they crashed was inevitable on pretty much every descent. Most of the worst offenders tended to weigh 6st so they weren't exactly going to protest when re-pasing you on the next fireroad climb.
I got mega frustrated when one race organiser told us all that anyone walking the A line on the climb would be sent back to do the B line, but when asked about the A/B split on the descent said he didn't mind people walking down the A line...
That's because you're irresistable Gary. You're like our Scottish Ginuwine
that looks like a good time...
This is so true. My riding buddy rode soooooo much stuff that I know in other circumstances he definitely would have walked.
Cool, looks like you had a good time.
I forgot to mention; because of the low snow level the race spent an extra day riding in Castlegar and one less day in Nelson. The Nelson day that got cancelled was listed as "The Day of the Steeps." I was bummed to miss that day since everything we DID ride was steep, I can only imagine how steep the trails were that we missed if the organized felt that labeling them extra steep was necessary.
By the rails
Me too. I'm not sure how much power the organizer has to enforce such a request but it would have been nice.
Thats ridiculous. What a dickhead.
That Jurgenmeister trail was pretty skitz steep. Every trail that day was but that one was long also. Drops 1000m in 2600m of trail.
This times gazillion
