In usual fashion the 69er crew rocked up to the Mountain Mayhem site near Ledbury, in glorious weather – after getting our base set up (we chucked our bags into the race pit kindly set up for us by Wayne at Trek), we headed out for a relaxed lap of what was a beautiful, hardpacked course – with some totally new bits of specially constructed trail that have never been used for the event before – it was all shaping up to be a great weekend of racing!
Rich’s poor little car really struggled back up the hill to the camp site after we rammed the boot full of beer and cider, but we knew it would be worth it! So the evening progressed in a very civilized manner – BBQ fired up, and ..