Team: Helen, Sinead, Rachel, James and Nick
Here’s the blog the lovely Rachel wrote after competing with Original Source at Mountain Mayhem this year...
Up until 2 weeks ago, I considered the words “bike” and “race” to be a very unlikely combination, and definitely a foreign concept in terms of my own riding experience. Some basic off-road, long-distance touring or just pottering around on the bike were well within my comfort zone, but in terms of narrow single track and night riding, I was a mere beginner.
I’ll be honest, up until the moment the competition email ended up in my inbox, I had never even heard of the event. I’d always known that 24hr races existed, but in my naivety has assumed these took place on flat floodlit courses. How wrong was I!! But as with any competition, you have to be in it to win it, and so just sent off the email thinking nothing more of it. That was however until just 11 days before the event I received an...
