Does anyone fancy getting a few peeps together for the next TrailBreak ride?..

 Its on the 20th October at Gatwick (Evans HQ)

I go to these events alot as I love riding new places on marked trails without having to tit about with a map! I went to a few on my own and sat at the start at 9.45 waiting for other eager SheCycles ladies...(OK the last one was tipping it down with rain!)...and there is rarely anyone there

I ended up riding with a group of blokes but sometimes i end up riding on my own. Last weekends ride was around the south downs and Buttser Hill starting from the QE Country Park and appart from a damp first hour it was a fantastic ride (unlike when i did it in June this year!)

There are a couple more TrailBreak rides this year and for anyone who hasnt done one before check out the events calendar here;

http://www.trailbreak.co.uk/evans/index.php?go=info

There are no real "placings" but you get ranked Gold, Silver, Bronze or Pub depending on your time to complete and there are 3 different distances to chose from.

They do a bloody marvellous veggie chilli at the end and by 30k my mind has turned to its steamy haze, I can almost smell it and I'm head down on a mission.

SheCycles usually "lead" a standard route out at 9.45 but Bex isnt able to make the next few so I will be there waiting for you all at the start line on the 20th. You can enter online or on the day ( i enter online as then if I wake up and its raining I have to go as I have paid £11...!... tight... me......)

Gatwick isnt the most challenging of their routes as there is a bit more country lanes than most of them but its still a good combo and there is retail therapy at the end as the start/finish is at the Evans superstore and last ride there I got a pair of Pearl Uzumi shoes for £20 in their sale!!!

If you cant make the 20th then check out the other dates as they run one a month and I plan on being at all of them.. ( also going to do the Navigator on the 31st at Arborfield if anyone fancies titting about with a map in the dark??????)

Hope to see lots of you on the 20th... if I have survived D2D by then that is.

Elaine

I think I must be the only person who hasn't been on one of these!  I must say that Gatwick isn't appealing but the retail therapy sounds good.

 I shall check out the others anyway.  Hope there are some others who will join you but I guess it may depend on the weather!

I'm relatively new to mountain biking but as I have an easy cycle to the start line there no excuse for me not to give it a go!  So see you on the 20th. 

Rana 

It was a spankingly bright chilly morning for a ride. I thought maybe the weather may have brought a few of you out.  A lady called Beccy,who had caught the train all the way from Dartford, and I had a very leisurely pootle round a flatish 45ks.

Next event is 17th November at Bramley in Surrey and I will be there again so I hope a few of you can join us.