BUSA MTB 2003
Last years BUSA mountain bike event was great, and it was at the wettest, most miserable location I have ever been to for a bike race. From watching six people attempt to put up a tent on the first afternoon in the pouring rain, to laughing my head off as Monarch tried to ride across Hamsterly river, it was wholesome entertainment start to finish. With this in mind and a perfect weather forcast I really had my hopes up for this years event.
As should be very apparent from the photos and news section, I wasn't disappointed... The sun shone, tracks were fast and dry and we won loads of things. I almost wrote that this is what racing is all about, and it is, but it's also about all those moments that made Hamsterly such a laugh: Dicking about when you should be practising; taking the piss and winding people up before their race; taking the piss and winding people up before their race, and then crossing the line utterly exhausted but with that warm and now familiar feeling that it's all been worth it.
Perhaps for this reason I think it's most appropriate that people lucky enough to have editing privileges leave their own snippets from the weekend, rather than trying to write a 'report' to sum it all up...
cheers to everyone who came for a quality weekend!
- I bought Sam a comb from Jacksons on Friday morning, just to make sure he stayed presentable all weekend stuck in a field. Sure enough, Sam kept his fleece tangle free, combing before and after every run claiming it took seconds of his time.
- I kicked a football into my face and fell over.
- If you ever get the chance to burn 20kg of coal in a night, do it you'll never know how fun it is until you try
- Don't try and jump a random kicker in the middle of field with lots of video cameras watching, your never gonna come out alive, or on slow mo looking silly.
- I now have a shiny silver BUSA medal and got to go to the AU ball, but no one needs to know about the AU ball