MAD Dixie Dash 2007 Round 2
- Not too keen on big durty fireroad climbs?
- Do you enjoy the assistance of gravity in your biking?
- Ever feel like going just a little bit MADder?
Round 2 of the MAD Dixie Dash continues Tues evening, 28th Aug
Planned start time is for everyone to assemble at Fairycastle at 7:15pm, race starts 7:30pm.
You might need lights for one of the forest sections depending on how cloudy it is
Remember, you need to be an mtb club member in order to participate.
PS: I want to see more MAD riders out for this one - some people were saying they were looking forward to doing it but never turned-up, so this is your chance to redeem yourself!
Looking forward to seeing you having a huge amount of fun on your bike...
Labels: events
posted by Fergal @ 1:16 p.m.
25 Comments:
At 4:46 p.m.,
Fergal said…
It was the usual die-hard MAD group racing for the first one,
thanks to Conor, Judith and Rachel for the marshalling and times,in total not too many of us, well outnumbered by EPIC!!
I expect to see a lot more out at the next one, people have put a lot of work into the course, planning and marshalling etc... so you need to be showing up so these efforts aren't in vain.
I'll be coming after you with a big stick if you don't make the next one!!!
At 6:19 p.m.,
Anonymous said…
a combination of work, illness and the loss of my voice kept me away from tuesdays vestivities.
At 6:43 p.m.,
Tom Heavey said…
I will gladly marshall, if anyone has a lift going from Milltown to the upcoming DD let me know,
Tom
At 10:51 p.m.,
Conor said…
I'll be there Fergal, but can I race this time?? Hope the video was'nt too bad.
At 7:53 a.m.,
Fergal said…
for sure Conor, look forward to seeing you on the start line!!
I might put the camera on the front of the bike this time - capture the carnage!!!
At 10:51 a.m.,
Paddy said…
well i told you it was on too early for me!
At 4:06 p.m.,
Conor said…
I was thinking of doing that myself, but with my own camera. I dont want to wreck your one! I might try and convince Aine to come out and take photos as well.
At 10:19 p.m.,
Conor said…
Is it Downhill, is it Crosscountry, NO its carnage!!!
The Bleedin' Dixie Dash! Its Deadly!
At 10:35 p.m.,
Anonymous said…
ouchies...
At 9:02 a.m.,
Oisin said…
Ouch. Right shoulder is fairly wrecked after crashing in the bomb hole. Bad timing just before the Alps trip.
Apart from that another brilliant race. Much faster than last week cause the ground is dryer.
At 9:18 a.m.,
Fergal said…
Thanks to everyone that came out!
Hope the injuries heal soon - you hit it on the head there Conor! (what a brutal pun eh?)
Twice the speed, twice the craic, and ten times the flying bodies and bikes - now that's much more like it lads!!
A better showing from MAD this time round and a good few EPIC heads out too meant it was going to be a fun chase all the way to the end.
The DH contingent was ably represented by Basil and Dave Ferguson, think that guy Jake Brennan was on a rig too but he retired early obviously overwhelmed by the amount of adrenaline rushing to his head halfway down the first descent, it can happen...
Anyway, the rest of the heads were set to take on the "I'll gobble all your travel" descent followed by the leg sapping fireroad before they would encounter their DH bretheren again.
Some woefully pungent gas courtesy of the ever-generous Eamo lifted everyone to their feet,
a brief bout of woeful slagging ensued and after a quick peep at the map, everyone was raring to go.
As soon as Richie retrieved his mysterious flying saddle from the bog we were set.
And they're off!!!
A fast blast across to 2 rock with Maxxis-sized lumps of bog muck being thrown-up in the wake of the leading pack, Oisin Fitz retiring early with a puncture just before 2 rock.
A lot of line-swapping and out-of-their-feckin'-boxes thinking resulted in most of the pack getting to the path very quickly.
Off right we split motoring-down the big descent, as the dh boys continued on down straight, Luke leading down the descent with Karl, Oisin and myself in hot pursuit.
(as I remember it-the actual facts may differ dramatically to my version)
A crash each from Luke and Karl didn't keep the shaggers down for long enough, and it was Oisin Luke and Karl through the hole in the forest with me after them.
The fireroad was a killer but I manged to get up near the front but not for long as we were strategically intercepted by Dave and Basil ripping their way down the hill.
Into the first singletrack section, it was Basil, Dave, Oisin, myself and Karl, think it was between Luke & Scrivo who were just behind.
A fast wind down through the open area, over the bridge, and super-serpent-snakey-speed through the humpty singletrack.
Over the hump and hoowered-along the fast path, a bunch-up at the steep hump into the second forest section caused me to slip down the bank, with a wild-man like charge Karl was up over and motoring down through the dark forest, I clicked down a few cogs and gave chase.
At the dual track split, Karl took the right and I took the slightly faster left and nipped ahead before the exit into the clearing.
Then up the tabletop which nearly up-ended me (feckin' steep!) and into the DH track which was much drier than last week.
Veered off left and joined the MADjestic section, the whole forest was really fast, the dh boys were bombing it, feck them I though to myslef, I thought they'd be suffering by now....
I opted for the new jump/drop to the left of the rollable jump, it's a sweet one,
and ended up alongside the tree trunk of trauma instead of the chicken run
- slightly illegal route I think but hey, that's illegal racing for ya and it gained me a second or two on Oisin so the ends justifying the means....
Down into the bombhole Basil and Dave drifted off right instead of keeping left and that was they're first and second place gone, hard luck lads, ye were flying up to that point.
That just left Oisin in front who made the fatal mistake of watching the rider in front instead of his line, a twitch of the bars and he went down
I went over his front wheel I think and then sailed down the ferny trail to a dixie dumpling or two.
It was then that the real entertainment began, with bloodied lags, cramped calves, busted mechs and ragged expressions arriving down out of the ferns like it was Day of the bejaysus Dead.
Fair play to the new lad - Micheal from MAD, whose mtb experience to that point was a few mild beginners spins, four over the bars stunts left him looking like he'd been danced-on at an elephant rave but still smiling.
There were many more impacts also - feel free to share them with us lads...
Next week brings us a slightly different route but just as much craic, the bodycount will surely increase...on with the Body Count!!!
notes-
The finish times sheet has second place as number 14 - who according to my list was Jake Brennan - think this should have been Dave Ferguson.....?
Dave - can ya confirm?
Oisin Boydell - your number wasn't on the finish sheet - there was a blank line at 17:05 (8th place) - was this you?
RESULTS:
RIDER TIME CLUB
Fergal Kilkenny 13:52 MAD
Dave Ferguson 14:02 EPIC?
Karl Thomas 14:03 EPIC
Alan Ayling 14:07 EPIC
Steve Scrivener 14:09 EPIC
Luke Smaul 15:01 EPIC
Richie Byrne 16:27 EPIC
Eamo Gassy-Arse 16:40 EPIC
Oisin Boydell 17:05 MAD
Conor Conneff 17:38 MAD
Karl 18:00 MAD
Ollie Castle 20:49 MAD
Barry O'Brien 23:04 MAD
Micheal Hallisey24:57 MAD
Oisin Fitz DNF MAD
Jake Brennan DNF ??
At 9:22 a.m.,
Fergal said…
PS: thanks to Rachel for the timekeeping and minding the snowballs!
Oisin Fitz - hope you made it off the mountain ok!!
At 10:59 a.m.,
Fergal said…
oops, Scrivo is down as an EPIC memeber!!!
No way to edit the post - sorry Steve!
At 11:19 a.m.,
Oisin said…
I was just behind Alan and in front of Steve. 5th place.
At 11:31 a.m.,
Anonymous said…
ooh ive just discoverd this blog thing! sorry i didnt make it, sounds great - hurt my knee and have to rest for 3 weeks! arggh its gonna be torture just as the suns coming out
At 12:54 p.m.,
Unknown said…
Must not be pushing myself half hard enough... Didnt have any crashes in the race or the boneshaker race home. Will have to sort that out for next week...
At 12:55 p.m.,
Stephen said…
Odd, signed in as somebody named Michael somehow... Hmmmmmmm
At 1:47 p.m.,
Unknown said…
great crack yesterday cant wait for next week,hope to break the 25min barrier!! I'm a bit stiff today and my knees, ankles, shins (my legs) are in bits, not so good for goin up and down scaffold all day. Stopped in2 a chemist on the way home to get antiseptic wipes and your 1 behind the counter says "DID YOU HAVE A CRASH", no sh*t sherlock
At 3:08 p.m.,
Tom Heavey said…
A guy walks into a pub, and its full of martians so needless to say he exits quickly, but as he does he looks at the bar and realises it's a Mars Bar
At 4:39 p.m.,
Paddy said…
tom we had enough of those bad jokes on saturday night!
At 4:44 p.m.,
Tom Heavey said…
Ha ha, ...wait bad jokes??? whatever do you mean, anyone for some crips? ; )
At 4:59 p.m.,
Paddy said…
haha .. thats just brought another memory out of the alcoholic haze
At 10:27 p.m.,
Conor said…
A fella offered me 8 legs of venison for €100. Is that too DEER ??
I have bad jokes too !
At 11:07 p.m.,
Tom Heavey said…
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