SSMM Results

The results are up on Singletrackworld here: mixed


Marky's last extra lap took Skidmarks up to 23rd! Well done Marky!!!

Glorious Sunshine!

Back to the days of yore at the SSMM this year.The long hot days of the SSMM in Birmingham returned for the weekend in Ledbury. Lots of fast and furious racing on a shorter course,rideable by all.

Riders:

Demonico:Put in a blistering fastest lap,but paid for it later.ooHe also suffered two punctures and mugged a fellow rider in the woods for a spare tube!

The Mighty Dinsdale: Now charging an appearance fee since taking 5th overall in the Trans Portugal,rode strongly throughout.And provided excellent chocolate cake.

Paulo Facero:Forked about on his last two laps as his forked gradually disintegrated.

Marky marco:Decided not to lurk and shook the Fatman's hand,and will hopefully write something from a rooky's point of view for here.Pictured above after a hard last lap..

Ramon:Best outfit of the weekend.

Pit babes,videography,photography......etc
Lil'cute one,Janey and Laney

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It's that time again.

The weather forecast looks a little bit drier this year.

Ramon y the lil'cute one are going on Friday night to bag a place to set up Skidmark Towers.

Skidmarks team 06 is looking strong this year:

Dom : absolutely flying in the national contre le montre this year.

Julie: aka the Mighty Dinsdale recently taken 5th overall in the Trans Portugal.

Marky: aka AKM just back from bagging le geant de Provence,Mont Ventoux,from every direction.

Ramon: on a roll from 7th vets and 52nd overall in the last Merida.

Paul: just back from a friend's wedding.

Juanita and LCO will be pit babing this year.

Trans Portugal stage 8

The Mighty Dinsdale takes 5th overall! Hurrah!

We await her write up of the race.

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Trans Portugal stage 7

The Mighty Dinsdale rides on water. As the rider in fronts sinks, the Mighty Dinsdale glides over the surface



The weather improves.



Julie enters into correspondence with the other riders!! She gets a mention for leaving a little note on a gate that she was unable to close.....aaahhh..bless her little cotton socks :-) The Mighty Dinsdale is fair to all and noble in life

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Trans Portugal stage 6

The flat day: Once again the easy day bites,with thunder storms and mud, the Mighty Dinsdale pushes on.

Even the scary giant sunflowers are no match for the Mighty Dinsdale


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Trans Portugal stage 5

The long day:

KB crashes out of the stage! Apparently he forgot to open a gate and went through it closed! There is no mention of injury.

Way to go dude...esta el hombre muy duro.(y posible poco miope tambien,no? ;-))

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Trans Portugal stage 4

The 'easy' day before the big day. As so often happens, the easy on paper day becomes the hard day before the very hard day. It rained.....hard.

Julie takes this in her stride:-)


When we last spoke, Julie was very motivated for this race,today SM/SR managed a quick interview with the Mighty Dinsdale live via a satellite hook-up.

SM - Hi Julie,how's it going.

JD - Good, I am crushing the opposition.

SM - er..right, good. How is the course?

JD - I am smashing the mountains to dust beneath my mighty northern thighs.

SM - mm...ok. So, how are you feeling?

JD - My northern blood boils with the desire to win!

SM - very well..What will you do after the race?

JD - Make chocolate cake for everyone!!!

:-)

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meanwhile......

meanwhile in France at the foot of 'Le Geant de Provence' Marky is celebrating his assualt on the said Maiden. All three ascents of Mont Ventoux in four days!! He wears the pois rouge.

Trans Portugal stage 3

Julie is storming!!!

'.....For a large part of the race Julie was in the lead. She really liked the stage and said it was “her type of riding”, but by the end she was tired, especially as she had mis-memorised the stage distance, and thought it ended at 97 km........'.

apart from the last bit....doh!

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KB and Cal had to pull out with illness, hopefully they will still continue the race. Get well soon!

Trans Portugal stage 2

Julie moves up to 4th overall!!

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A close look at the picture shows some road rash, has she stacked it somewhere??

Trans Portugal stage 1

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Julie 6th.

KB 8th.

Cal had some problems with a puncture.

Julie apparently dropped the other female competitor towards the end of the first stage.

Go Dinsdale go!!! Venga, venga.

Trans Portugal

Sunday riders Julie and KB set out to tackle the Trans Portugal this Saturday.

Supertravessia

The race runs from the 11-18th June and is a 1000km! All done by following a virtual map on a gps.

Julie will have no problem with the distance, but I can see her stamping the gps into the ground at some point:-)

Julie is going to try to text details about the stages as she finishes, which I'll post here whenever I get them.

I've just spotted that Cal is also signed up.

West Drayton 100k Randonee.

A fabulous 100k's riding around the Chiltern's gently rolling hills in the sunshine. No fire road climbs!! ..........recommended!!

West Drayton

Ramon, Juanita and Roger rode a steady, semi-fast, training tempo, coming in at 6.16 for the 104km.

Kay hurt her back at around 4km and had to retire.

update - Merida 100 Rhayader

Ramon took 7th in the vets category

Paul took 44th in his.

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