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The James Williamson Enduro Challenge 2011
Wingello State Forest
The 'JAMES WILLIAMSON ENDURO CHALLENGE' 2011
A joint initiative of Southern Highlands Cycling Club(SHCC) and Canberra Off-Road Cyclists(CORC)
This inaugural MTB event in 2011 is to be held in memory of James Williamson, the 2008 World and 2006 Australian 24 Hour MTB champion. This is the first of what will be an annual event held each March, at Wingello in the Southern Highlands of NSW. James passed away on March 23rd 2010 while he was participating in the Cape Epic Mountain Bike Race in South Africa. James came from the Southern Highlands of NSW before moving to Canberra, and knew the trails of both areas well and was a respected rider, internationally and of Southern Highlands Cycle Club and Canberra Off Road Cyclists.
The James Williamson Enduro Challenge is intended to be a ride for those who love mountain biking, and a race for those who love to ride hard.
Date: Sunday 13th March 2011
Time: 9am start
Location: Wingello State Forest, Southern Highlands, NSW.
Categories:
Open female and male (19 years and over) choose between 25km, 50km or 75km
Under 19 years 50km or 25km loop
Under 17 years 25km or 16km loop
Under 15 years 16km loop only
No separate category for masters, but prize will be given to first masters male and female to finish
Costs:
75km - $80
50km - $70
25km - $65
16km - $45
Definitions:
Masters - 40+
Juniors: Under 19 (17 or 18 years on event day); Under 17 (15 or 16 years on event day); Under 15 (13 and 14 years only).
Date of birthday:
Age will be determined as at the day of the event
Registration
Receive a Limited edition Willo T-shirt with every registration before December 31st 2010
Wingello State Forest:
Wingello State Forest is a planted forest, located in the Southern Highlands between Sydney and Goulburn. The forest is managed by Forests NSW and contains several thousand hectares of forest including pine plantation and hardwood forest. The race/ride will be based at the airfield at Wingello Forest (5 minutes from Wingello Forest Park). There is plenty of camping at the forest park, and on site food, toilets, coffee vans, water, and first aid will be provided at the race. There is plenty of accommodation in the Southern Highlands - check out the Southern Highlands Tourism website.
Trail Descriptions:
The 16km loop is predominantly single track.
The 25km loop is predominantly single track, with some fire road as well
The 50km and 75km loops combine single track with fire road. Single track winds through banksias, trees, ferned gullies, soft eucalypt forests, up steep climbs, over water bars, around tight rocky areas and back again onto perfect flowing single track, providing an awesome circuit with plenty of space for passing as well as going hard.
Number of riders:
There is a limit of 600 riders - registration will close when this number has been reached.
Proceeds from Event:
Money received (after costs) will be placed into the James Williamson Fund. The fund will be used to finance a range of activities in support of developing young mountain bike riders in Australia; including: an annual training camp, assistance packages and other forms of assistance to be determined by the administrators of the James Williamson Fund.
Blog entries about this meeting (as this is a race standings and times are shown, click on the title for more and to comment)...
| Who | Title | Status | Time | Pos.Gen. | Category | Pos.Cat. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tate | Now that's racing. | Finished | 02:10:00 | 10 | 50km/Male/Open | 9 |
| Whisperer | Wingello Rocks - Willo Memorial Enduro | Finished | 02:36:25 | 49 | 50km/Male/40+ | 12 |
| craked | wet and dry Wingello | Finished | 02:41:05 | 64 | 50km/Male/40+ | 23 |
| Logan | A Fabtastic Day at the James Williamson Enduro 2011 | Finished | 03:41:31 | 36 | 75km/Male/Open | 32 |
| ps | A nice tribute to Willo and a great race | Finished | 04:03:50 | 78 | 75km/Male/40+ | 20 |
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I saw this but I've been doing Loop the Lake. I would much rather go off road but I do have my own personal challenge to beat. I'll have to now think about this.
This one is gonna become a classic. Cant wait.
See y'all on the start line.
p.s. bring your big-wheel'd bikes, this is a race for the 29ers...
Was gonna race Beauie but will do this instead.
70k is nice distance, great tracks, and might even take antsonline's advice and bring the new rocketship....
(Yeti bigtop 29er)
That bike flies!
Snap!
Yup, and by a thousand percent too!
(it's my next N+1)
Get up to Bike Bar Bondi - its not a Yeti (and I know how you all love them Yetis), but they have some of the new Orbea Alma Carbon 29ers.
There is one in the window, built with X9, but nice fork and finishing kit, and its 4.5k!!
I ride a nice carbon 29er, and honestly, have serious lust issues with the Orbea - its probably my favourite frame, and at 4.5k complete is RIDICULOUS!
Scott 29er RC Hardtail I think would be my choice.
Its WHEN you go 29er, not if.
I'm in.
Flashbacks to the Fling!
What time is everyone looking for?
I think I am gonna aim for around the 4 hour mark, thats based off an average of 18kph, I know during the first half of the Fling I had managed to nail the first 50k's in 2h 30mins however I know the red loop takes in the wall and I struggled in the 2nd half....
I'm doing the 50 and I will be happy if I go under 3 hours so we will call that 2.hours 59 ,but I wont bust a gut to achieve this ,who knows I might even have A power nap halfway and go for 3hours 20
I almost cleaned the wall on the Fling last year if it wasnt for someone stopping in front of me which was unfortunate.
The wall isn't in the race!
i went down a few weeks ago with a local and also bumped into the organisers and it was confirmed!
Thank God!
still some good climbs though so dont think it's gonna be easy! especially three laps!
I was looking forward to that.... not.
I'm not going for any time, it's a charity ride, so happy just rolling with mates and having fun.
Phil I don't believe you.
You are one of the most competitive people I know. Prove me wrong and roll in with an avg speed of say 12 kmh
Come Sunday I bet he will be on the start line and getting ready to go all out....
So Phil, shall we be wearing baggies and stuff our Camelbaks with a couple of beers?
That sounds like a great idea. Beer = extra carbs!
Hey Boys and Girls
Since I posted this ride the organisers have changed the start time. Apparently it's now 8.30am
Good luck to all. Have a fun ride.
Phil
8.30am: Female and Male – 13km
9.00am: Male – 75km
9.05am: Female – 75km
9.10am: Male – 50km | Female – 50km | Male & Female – 25km
11.15am – Noon: Fun races for juniors and sub juniors
great day ,weather was perfect track was tacky and fast had a ball, outpast my expectations by heaps.
Really well organised event. I will be back next year!
But yeah great day, it was super fast through the singletrack and just generally a very well run event, I will be back for sure. Also 75k's got to have their car onto transition which really helped as well.
Awesome event, perfect conditions and happy with my result.
12th in Masters/50 km/2hrs 30 something
The Yeti 29er railed the single track and was soooooo much fun!
Steve01 and Martine on the podium was brilliant.
Blog post to come tomorrow.
I had a bloody awesome day. I did pull the pin after the 2nd lap however. I knocked* my broken shoulder again last weekend. With this concern, today was really just a suck-it-and-see ride, 99% of the time I was ok but it was giving me grief every now and again and I decided after watching the elites sprint out the last 50 meters right in front of me as I was approaching the start/finish line I decided that a 3rd lap wasn't go to prove anything to me today. I'd rather leave the event having had a ball and loads of fun chatting shit, riding with friends and catching up with the usual race faces and some new ones - nice to finally meet Whisperer
My fitness was good, real good, very happy on that front and was very happy with my cruisy two laps. The first lap was spent rolling along with Fatboy. It was a hot day and there's bugger-all shade so got burnt as hell. But I'm still smiling.
Top marks to the organisers, the cars parked along transition was fantastic idea!
Will I be back next year? for sure! Let's hope I've no broken bones in 12 months
RIP Willo!
*Came off around the dam directly onto the shoulder bad enough to get x-rays to get it checked out.
Yep, great day out.
Funniest experience was when the 50km elites caught us about 45min into the race. Phil & I were in one of those tight single track sections where your bars barely fit between the trees. I could see Perren Delecour coming fast so started looking for somewhere to pull aside. I glanced around to see Phil coming down a hill behind me distracted by the action behind him and ended up wedged between 2 trees parallel to the ground with Perren looking at whether he could slide underneath to get through. I remember thinking "that can't be good for Phil's shoulder".
Worst experience was about a km from the end of lap 2 on a downhill single track when I went over a drop off and as I landed on my front wheel a snake slithered out from the right. As all my weight was on the front I had no way of avoiding it other than deliberately cartwheeling over the bars into the bushes to the left. The snake retreated back the way it came and was probably thinking WTF was that? Why the F*&k is it me, the person most scared of snakes of anyone I know, who always has snake incidents? F*$k snake, there were 600 riders there today, why the f#$k did you pick me???????
As my back was crap I decided to wear a video camera on my helmet today and get some footage. The first 20min or so looked good (apart from Phil's butt) but then the camera dropped so I then have some great close up footage for the rest of the race of the road just in front of my wheel...Doh!
There seemed to be plenty of Nobmobbers out there today. PS did well for us old buggers. I think I saw Steve01 on the podium for old farts also. The speeches at presentations were quite emotional and the whole day reinforced the impact Willo had on many people. There aren't too many events in the country that draw the quality of field that were there today. I can't think of too many of the big name riders who didn't attend. Bring on next year.
I thought it was really well run. Excellent track, but a bit too much traffic on our first lap. More of a staggered start between the 75km and 50km guys would help next year.
Unofficial result for me was 9th in category, 10th overall for 50km. Was hoping for top ten leading into the race, so couldn't be happier. Will be back for sure next year.
Cheers
Tate.
Yup, that did hit the spot, the wrong spot, the hurty spot. I had a couple of other moments like that with the elites rushing past me and having to quickly step out of the way only to jar the shoulder each time. That was the main reason I pulled the pin. The other was the front mech was giving me grief. Constantly having to adjust the cable tension to shift up to the dog or down to the granny wasn't exactly fun either.
Would be fun to see some of the footage you got today, even if it's of my butt
Guys, please... write a blog about this race instead of turning this into one giant thread. Blogs are good. Makes an automatic table of your race results, etc, etc