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VIKING CHALLENGE 2005
50KM CROSS COUNTRY EVENT
REDMILE,
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE |
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 The info:
 The Viking Challenge 50km
Off/road course features some of the most
beautiful countryside in the East Midlands, O.K. so it was a bit
sloppy & sludgy but it kept you on your toes, or arse. This year the
Viking Challenge catered for 1,183 on/off/road
cyclists & raised monies for the Mencap & Redmile Village
primary school. |
IT'S
SUNDAY, SO ITS ANOTHER EVENTS DAY
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~ Bicyclemania Ride ~
Well would you believe it, warm
& sunny Octobers day.
'But
A Mud Bath'
Registration was very well organized, simple affair
just sign in & say what time you are going to start,
tie on your number to the bike & at the finish hand it
into the time-keepers.
The route this year had a different section in it, but
on the hole the same course as last year so you new
what was coming, or we though we did, the ground was
all slippery & muddy in the off/road sections so it
made for delicate biking skills. As last year the
route took in canal tow paths, byways, woodland
tracks, short sharp up-hills, small down-hills, edge
of fields & country lanes. And according to Kidder &
Chiefy it looked like everyone who had a mountain bike
of some sort had turned up to do this event.
"A total of 1.138 rides had a bash"
........ one hell of a turn out ....again.
Everyone seemed to be in good spirits for the event
the route was well signed and marshalled too, the feed
stations were well stocked with juices, Mars bars &
bananas not like some major events Kidder & Chiefy
have competed in. A big thanks must go out to all
involved in the making this event even bigger and
better than last years.
'Are you up for it next year ........... see you
there!'. |
THE VIKING
CHALLENGE
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