06 May 09 Why Mountain Biking

While I’m changing everything about this website, I thought a bit of context to the montain biking obsession I currently have.

In June 2009 Mountain Mayhem will be held at Eastnor Park in Worcestershire. Mountain Mayhem is a 24 hour endurance mountain bike race which involves teams of four people (you do get soloists as well) riding a 8 to 10 mile course non-stop for 24 hours. The team who does the most laps, wins.

Last year, some friends did the race and so I went along to put up tents, clean bikes, make tea and get in the way. I became very interested in getting involved this year and so four of us with a combined age of neolithic artifacts are entering the race.

We are called Hanley WYLD – we live in a village called Hanley Swan and our surnames (Adrian White, Dave Yates, Bob Lewin and Andy Darwent) give us the WYLD suffix.

In a few short months it has to be said that I have become very hooked on mountain biking and cannot help but ramble on about it here. I do intend to put a little more substance to these rambles as time goes on. Bear with me.