There’s a first time for everything and for me it was
Bristol Bikefest. I entered the 3 hour solo. During the week the weather had been
amazing and was the same for the whole weekend!
Rocking up Saturday early evening with my mum and sister, we
set the tent up and watched the final hour of the 12hour event. The atmosphere
was great, music pumping and everyone seemed so chilled. The music played on
until early hours but I still managed to get my beauty sleep!
Sunday morning was a little cloudy but the sun did decide to
make an appearance for the rest of the day. A mass start at 10am was not your
usual mountain bike start; it was about a 200m sprint to your bike, grab it
jump on and pedal off. It was hectic to say the least and I must say a lot of
people nearly got tangled up in bikes but no one seemed that bothered!
The course was good fun; a lot of fast flowing single track
with a couple of climbs. The first lap involved a bit of queuing behind riders
as there were few places to overtake but you could make a few sneaky passes
every now and again. Once everyone spread out it made it easier; I picked each
rider off one by one for the whole race which really kept me going hard.
I came in just over 15mins before the 3hour cut off time; if
I went out again the lap wouldn’t have counted so I finished there. I managed
to complete 5 laps and was 1 lap ahead of 2nd place so I was pretty
happy with that.
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