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The Bottlebutt 100 Take2
Hastings Valley Motorcycle Club
Rescheduled from the 10th September to the 19th November 2011
http://www.blackheartevents.com.au/port-mac-mtb/...
The Bottlebutt 100 has been rescheduled to Saturday the 19th of November, 2011.
Competitors who were registered to compete on the original date of the 10th of September have the following 2 options:
* If you are able to race on the new date - do nothing. Your entry is automatically transferred to the new date.
* If you are unable to race on the new date, you may request a Full Refund by sending us this email by the 22nd of September at 11:59pm. Refunds requested after this time will be subject to the usual refund policy. All refunds will be processed on 23rd of September. Please note, as entries were processed through a 3rd party vendor, we will require bank account details to process your refund, as we cannot reverse you credit card transaction.Entries to the Bottlebutt 100 and Hairy-Butt 50 will reopen on Friday, the 23rd of September 2011.
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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ps | Bottlebutt 100 | Finished | 06:50:05 | 11 | 2 |
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If I'm not mistaken, isn't that a week after the Highland Fling.
Auch!
It is. Means you only need to train for one event. Do the fling, rest for 5 days then do the bottlebutt
just be sure to remind yourself of this when your in the hurt box climbing the grassy hill 10K's out from the finish.
The SRAM Singletrack Mind Series Round 8ΒΌ (Fat Tyre Fest replacement) is on the following weekend at Awaba as well. I was thinking of trying to get a team for this as well. What to do....
dunno... perhaps HTFU and enter SOLO??
the wife is going to be happy.
maybe not.
I'm thinking more about leave passes required for the 3 weekends in a row.
Also, not interested in solos and Awaba demands to be ridden as fast as you can so a team works better for me.
I said after the Fling that I wouldn't do anymore marathons for the year as I want to take a week or two off and then start to build a decent base for next years marathon and road season. So I won't be attending.
Just curious, do you continually need to build your base?
With the Fling the weekend before and the FTF at Awaba the weekend after I'm taking the refund option.
The competitor brief is available. Also, the climb at bago bluff has been removed for this year
http://www.blackheartevents.com.au/port-mac-mtb/...
Well at least I can look forward to a dust free race with 60mm of overnight rain.
The other rain stations in the vicinity recorded around 20mm so maybe pretty localized. Anyhow I recall a comment that the highway underpass is usually very wet....hope it is not a swim !
Paul / Dave
Take the snorkel - in addition to the 60mm there was 40mm last Sunday.
my guess it will be pretty damp, especially since they have now removed the 'higher' ground from the course.
Cracked's brother lives up there he will have a better estimate of the condition of the tracks.
Wasn't that bad in a lot of places. Probably a bit better overall than husky except there were about 5 times as many puddles. Doc finished 4th. Ended up leaving my brother behind near the end as we knew the masters leader was just up ahead.
English won by about an hour.
Awesome result guys. Sounds like Doc had a great race. Look forward to hearing the reports.
How were your times in hos conditions ?
Wayne
Nice work guys. Especially backing up after the Fling.
It was a tough day out and I struggled for most of the time. Meanwhile Paul is the master of understatement having finished second in category - well done !
It was a small field and lots of DNFs, but none the less it was a good to finish. I burnt all my energy in the first leg after I had a few offs in the mud and jungle like conditions, tried hard to catch the pack ahead but ended up riding alone most of the day. After the fast and groomed trails at the Fling last week this was like an episode of Bear Grills.
P.S. didn't quite need the snorkel, but some sections resembled a mud run event.
Doc, there wasn't ever actually a pack, guess it was the technical and overgrown nature of the trails. We started around 20th and my brother kept pushing the pace on that first loop. We passed a few people but only in ones and two's.
What happened to you at the start? I looked back about a minute into that first single track and there wasn't anyone in sight.
btw the temperature averaged over 34 for the last 3 hours. That will always make it a tough day.
Congratulations Paul on your category 2nd. Sounds like a tough day with mud and 34 degrees.
great ride Paul,and also Dave well done to finish let alone place highly,how was the HWY underpass? were your sox full of leaches at the end?
Tough going it was. 5 hours for 53km, i usually do 50kms in around 2.5 hours or so. Better trails in the Jolly nose area than that and around Port, the long climb at the 32km mark killed me. Heaps of muddy bogs at the bottom of hills, the only time I wished I had more than a cross mark on the back. You guys did a good job doing two laps of that. Plenty of DNF, and everyone I spoke with put it down at least once, some big time I heard.
I spoke with one guy towards the end , he was worried, as it was his girlfriends first race. She pulled out lucky. They advertised it as a race with nice flowing single track for any standard. Not a place for a 1st time MTBer. Nothing like the promo video Obviously the people doing the Race brief hadn't been out on the track.
English should be a shamed putting his name to that course. I see he smashed it, but for all the rest of us it was tough. I guess when your sponsored, you don't worry too much about washing your your bike or trashing your drive train. Places out there even he couldn't
Cracked , didn't see Garry there? maybe he knew better. The HWY underpass, getting back up the hill on the otherside was tough.
What about about the bog near the farm after the rocky creek crossing, it was half way up my thigh.
It became a battle to finish.
The only leech I saw was climbing across my Garmin and I managed to get rid of that without crashing.
@Floydo. Don't be so hard on yourself. Good effort for finishing. btw I had a cross mark on the back and thought it went ok. Definitely had to pick a line early in some places and just trust you got through the other side without needing to change direction.
Tru Floydo,Gary didn't think much of the course,and doubted it would dry out enough to be fun so he didn't enter.
What happened to me at the start ? well.......I dropped the bike trying to hurdle a mud patch and hit a vehicle rut all wrong not long before the single track. Couple of guys passed while I gathered myself and then once I got going again there was no one in sight. I wanted to rejoin with some other riders, and tried hard to chase but I couldnt maintain traction on that first single track climb and ended up walking a slippery section. Then while still rattled from the tumble had another off slipping out on the singletrack decent. Hope faded quickly of catching you guys ahead after that. Had a 1:40 first split so not to far behind you but in the end it was a pretty tough solo slog.
Going off my brothers garmin file we were 1:35 to the first feed station, 3:20 when we turned right to do the second 25k loop and 5:12 when we turned left after the second loop.
My garmin file is a bit of a mess as the wheel sensor got knocked off early in the race and it seemed to get confused for a while and was measuring zero speed at times so it only registered 69k of distance. It looks like our pace was relatively about 5-10 minutes faster than the Fling pace over that first section so not surprised you didn't catch us.
What really surprised me was that there were 4 guys who finished in the 6 minutes prior to me. Hadn't seen most of them all day and we did that last section after the feed station slowly in about 1:40.
A vid is on youtube. Looks like a mess to so. Well done for anyone finishing this one.
http://youtu.be/8lFolq-k3iw.be
that looked horrible,Hope it's a bit dryer when I ride those trails over Christmas!
I doubt that its that bad very often. 60mm of rain is more than most trails can cope with and it does take more than 48 hours to dry when they are not well designed (and several parts of that course will always be bad after rain).
The first 2 minutes of the vid is from the first 10k of the course. There were sections like in the vid that were quite muddy with motorcycle ruts full of water but it was dry for long stretches in a lot of places and "damp" but rideable with no major puddles in others. I still think that we rode 90-95k without to much in the way of mud.
It was just the creeks, puddles and bog holes in between and there were a lot of those. Certainly more than I have seen in a race before. Getting on and off the bike so many times is a pain.
btw that yours truly walking about 1:20 in.