Anyone up for getting a team together for the Strathpuffer 24 this winter? There are Solo/Pairs and Quads categories.
If you haven’t done it before then this is the perfect time. You either do it once and never again or you do them all.
The weather is always the biggest challange, past 3 years it has been nearly called off due to snow and ice.
The blurb from their site.
The seventh Strathpuffer will take place on 7th/8th January 2012. Entries for solos, pairs and quads will open at 10.00 am on 5th November 2011 and close at midnight on 31st December 2011
The third Puffer Lite will take place on 25th/26th June 2011. Entries for solos, pairs and trios will open at midday on 1st February 2011 and close at midnight on 23rd June 2011
A wee bit of history
The Strathpuffer started in 2005 – it was meant to be a one off local event but somehow six years later we have a national event with a legendary status
Over the years we have had every possible type of weather conditions – gales that blew away our marquee, iced roads, 2ft of snow the week before the event, temperatures down to minus 10 degrees, rain, hail and even sunshine . . . . you get the picture but then if we insist on staging a 24 hour event in the Highlands of Scotland in the middle of winter what do we expect?
We now attract competitors from all over the world – probably because we were included in the US Bike magazines top 10 toughest Mountain Bike events on the planet – and we are widely recognised as the event every decent mountain biker needs on his palmares
In 2009 we launched The Puffer Lite to give riders chance to enjoy the wonderful trails we have around here in summer conditions. The Lite is a far more chilled affair being only a 12 hour sprint in conditions more conducive to cycling than those normally experienced in January. We have found that riders lap on average 10 mins quicker in the Puffer Lite than in the Strathpuffer.
Registration opens on 5th November and fills up very quickly. Solos were full in 8 minutes last year.
So get your name down. and lets get a team together.
Alan
