With the Macc Supacross nearly a two hour drive away the Heptonstall event was a more sensible choice. In retrospect sensible is not a word that could really be applied - well organised lunacy with a large helping of fun, yes; sensible, no. We met up with Nick from Clifton CC who had obviously interpreted the flavour of the event more ably thasn myself and had dressed bike and rider as a Christmas tree complete with working fairy lights! He desrvedly won one of the many fancy dress prises on offer for his efforts.
Having found myself along with about half a dozen other riders in the embarrassing 'no-win' scenario of racing a fancy dress event in a skinsuit (Which might go down ok at 'Submission', well if it were PVC and had spikes!) what to do? At the start I decided to just roll along and enjoy things (including the snowballs) only to have everyone else shoot off. After a lap I decided the humiliation of racing a fancy dress event in a skinsuit and loosing as well would be too much so started racing. The down side to this was more frequent snowballing - some of those U12s have good right arms - and more frequent viewing of Phil Thackray's rear, I may need some of Mark FM's therapy to fully recover from that! More pictures, especially the children's fancy dress outfits available at Jo's Hanglebads Flickr
Next year full on fancy dress - a great fun event!
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