Brass Monkeys Rd2 - Windmill Hill, Deepcut, Surrey

Olive's first race looking as if she's enjoying it?

Windmill Hill is in the same area as Porridgepot Hill and we know how tough that is, this was no different with short steep hills, testing singletrack and hardly anywhere to recover. As usual it had rained all week and whilst everywhere on our trip up was flooded the course at Deepcut was in pretty good condition and despite the previous week’s soggy outlook the weather was dry and sunny.

Andy J

In an effort to space out the mass of riders, a grassy start loop took competitors away briefly from the comfort of the arena, before the plunged into the final sections of singletrack that took them through the start/finish line. This seems to be working well as by the time we were dropping into the early singletrack the usual jostling for position and traffic jam was more or less over.

James H

Onto the race, it was brutal, there were only a couple of short areas to quickly feed and drink before you were straight into another climb or descent. The singletrack was great fun, unfortunately the two bomb holes were a little difficult to get out of with the surface breaking up and one was diverted after the first lap(quick thinking by the Gorrick crew) and the other had a chicken run just in case(which I took my last 3 laps).

We had a good turn-out with Olive coming 9th in Ladies 2hrs, Ollie Fenton 4th and James Hansford 9th in 2hr Juniors, Damian Redmond 25th in 2hrs vets, Ian P 7th, John D 24th, Andy J 48th and Kevin M 59th in 4hr Vets.

Jan - May 2013 - Off-Road Events

Jan 27th - Spring Series Rd1     -  Surrey Hill, Bagshot, Surrey - Cancelled

Feb 17th -  Spring Series Rd2    -  Tunnel Hill, Mychett, Surrey

Mar 3rd -   Spring Series Rd3    -  Crowthorne Wood, Crowthorne, Berks
Mar 3rd  -  Southern Rough Ride - Storrington, West Sussex

Mar 24th -  Spring Series Rd4    -  Porridgepot Hill, Deepcut, Surrey

Apr 7th  -   Spring Series Rd5     -  Frith Hill, Deepcut, Surrey
Apr 27th -  Ups and Downs          -  Dorking, Surrey

May 5th  -  Gorrick 100 Enduro    - Swinley Forest, Bagshot, Surrey
May 12th -  24hrs of Exposure     - Wasing Estate, Reading, Berks 
May 25th -  Erlestoke 12             -  Erlestoke, Devizes, Wiltshire

Brass Monkeys Rd1 - Caesar's Camp, Aldershot

What goes up must come down and with 750'+ of climbing each 7 mile lap we certainly deserved the awesome descending especially the last mile into the start/finish line. The club Sunday morning riders decided this would be their jump from nice sedate Wiggle Super Series to the take no prisoners Gorrick Enduro's. They all performed admirably finishing with broad smiles on their faces knowing they had just finished a particularly tough opening round and looking forward to the next.

Conditions were amazing, considering the amount of water dumped on the area in the preceding days, with only two sections that hampered the fast flowing trails. In the senior men's 4hr race Ben Connor came in 20th including a puncture break and Peter Wilsdon (above) 67th even with a snapped chain.

Moving up the cats we had a great turn out in the men's 4hr Vet's race with 5 riders. The consistent Ian Petherbridge came in an impressive 5th in a strong field which gets bigger every year, John Davies 22nd, Kevin Moore 44th, John Reay 49th and Andy Jarman (above) who had stopped to help Peter fix his chain 58th.

In the men's 2hr Vet's race Damian Redmond had an impressive 21st in a very hard category.

And last but not least the 2hr Junior male where Will Taylor(above) finished 2nd riding a singlespeed and Ollie Fenton 5th.

Great results, well done to all.