Site update: Rider Gallery, Contact details, Updated rider profiles with racing history and 2012 planned target races
Andy in Privateer Magazine
Nov 10, 2011
Steve Heading and Andy Douglas
Andy Douglas gave an interview to Privateer mountain bike magazine after coming 2nd place overall to Steve Heading in The Polaris Challenge 2011.
Steve won the 2 day, 12 hour enduro MTB-Orienteering by the narrowest of margins- it all came down to only 10 seconds!
To read the full article see Privateer issue #5
Dark and White Trailquest- Grindleford
Nov 06, 2011
Dark and White Trailquests
Start in Grindleford
Riders
Pete Crawforth
Andy Douglas
What a great day to find yourself riding a bike!
Glorious weather hit Grindleford for the second round of the Dark and White winter trailquests.
Andy put in another consistent result finishing 3rd overall with 289 points, well done to him!
My route choice I think may have been a little ambitious considering my skills with a map. Silly mistakes and my GPS deciding to depart from my bike cost me bags of time. Many thanks to the rider who spotted my garmin and gave it back to me, that made my day! I’ve also learned a valuable lesson about finishing on time. There is a 10 minute buffer but anything over that and the penalities start racking up! so my 18minutes quickly tunred into minus 80 points! š ah well at least it was sunny!
Results, splits, route breakdown (java required) and Dark and Whites own race report can be found following the links.
Many Thanks to Dark and White for setting up another great day of racing!
Oktoberfest
Nov 05, 2011
Following a podium finish at the Kona Oktoberfest 8 hour Enduro in Bristol in 2010. The Riders of Pedal Pursuits have since appeared on the Bike-fest.com homepage for the event.
BMBO sheffield
Nov 05, 2011Andy was able to show his improvedĀ short course BMBO skills in todays race and finished seconds off the first place finisher. Everybody who took part in today’s race found the race particularly challenging, with technical route choices having to be made in the wet conditions. Andy was pleased with his performance on the day and the finishing result which could have been easily improved on with a few minor changes to his route choice.
This was Pete’s first taster of a BMBO style race and unsurprisingly found it very tough. Being familiar with the particular style of map allows for a better route to be chosen. The nature of the short course races are also very different, since they require a larger amount of concentration between check points with more desisions needing to be made.
After spending 18 minutes to find an allusive check point and loosing a further 10 minutes retracing his steps trying to find his GPS which had fallen off Pete called it a day missing out the last two check points. Room for improvement
