Back to Mountain Bike Racing (Photo Story)

First MTB race in what feels like a very very long time. A very low key affair in Bolton last Thursday evening.  Some splendid snaps from Ed Rollason Photography tell the tale perfectly.  What a great feeling to be racing again just two weeks after coming out of my kidney stone operation.  Happy chappie.

Anticipating

Start

Charge!

Charge

Climbing out of the woods

Climbing

Slippy Slidey Stuff

Slippy Mud

Why we wear eye glasses

Why we wear glasses

A reminder that it’s summer

Summer mtb race

Roy Hunt – still dishing it out in his mid 50s

Roy Hunt

All done. Mulling it over.

Mulling it over

Mucky

Mucky

Thanks to Ed Rollason for kind use of these images and to Horwich CC and Lancashire Road Club for a great grass roots MTB race series.