Highland Trail 2019
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Highland Trail 2019
Alan is accepting requests for next years event from today! Who's asking for an invite?
http://www.highlandtrail.net
http://www.highlandtrail.net
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Not me this year. I'll go back at some point but not this time.
Are you going for it Karl?
Are you going for it Karl?
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If Alan will have me. I've got unfinished business from last year.
Good to see you back out Dave!
Good to see you back out Dave!
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Not me this time, I'll be dot watching.
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sent me email this morning
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I drafted my email earlier in the week and sent it first thing this morning. Assuming I get in that's me committed to another winter of training in all weather's
I suppose if I do get a place it's justification to buy some new winter riding boots
I suppose if I do get a place it's justification to buy some new winter riding boots
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Me and a friend are hoping for 2020 for our 50th though not sure if we'll go for the group start. Good luck
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Sent my email to Alsn this morning also.
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Am I getting confused?Sent my email to Alsn this morning also.
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Blimey. As if the distance, climbing, unreliable water sources, and potential for inclement weather wasn't enough, they're adding lions into the mix?
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How do you go about entering?
Just send an email asking, or is there more to it? I ask because of the "drafted an email" thing.
Just send an email asking, or is there more to it? I ask because of the "drafted an email" thing.
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I just wrote something like 'Hi Alan, any chance of a place on the group start next year?'
But if you haven't done it before you have to include stuff about previous ITT's you've done. There are previous threads about qualifying rides etc....
But if you haven't done it before you have to include stuff about previous ITT's you've done. There are previous threads about qualifying rides etc....
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I just sent in my request, after a pretty easy year last year (only did torino-nice in terms of events).
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One day....not this coming year (well not group start this coming year anyway)
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Send an email to Alan. Helps him if you include links to your Strava activities like the BB200/300, etc. obviously the more recent the better, something from this year is more relevant than the same ride from five years agoRichard G wrote:How do you go about entering?
Just send an email asking, or is there more to it? I ask because of the "drafted an email" thing.
BB300 2018 <Strava link >
Etc
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I doubt it has changed but i dont knowIt’s NOW just over 5 weeks until I will start taking requests for places on the 2017 group start. Still not too late to get a qualifying ride in!
These include Lakeland 200, Cairngorms Loop and Yorkshire Dales 300. All should have been completed inside the time limits. I’ll also accept the northern or middle loop of the HT550. The main reason for having these “qualifiers” is for you to know what you are getting into and the best way is to have done large parts of the route itself. GPX files/links to Strava activities accepted as “proof”.
Finishers from the last three editions (since HT became 550 miles) will have a guaranteed place. An ITT finish also assures you of a place. This year I will take up to 60 names again and expect 40-50 to make the start line come May 27th. I’ll keep 10 places for women but won’t limit it to that should there be more female applicants. Also a minimum of 10 places will be for overseas riders, who should have experience of tough bikepacking routes/races where they are from.
The route for 2017 will be almost identical to this year. No E-bikes in the group start please!
I aim to do it 2020 and do two of those this year
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I thought i read Cairngorm Loop was out...Lazarus wrote:I doubt it has changed but i dont knowIt’s NOW just over 5 weeks until I will start taking requests for places on the 2017 group start. Still not too late to get a qualifying ride in!
These include Lakeland 200, Cairngorms Loop and Yorkshire Dales 300. All should have been completed inside the time limits. I’ll also accept the northern or middle loop of the HT550. The main reason for having these “qualifiers” is for you to know what you are getting into and the best way is to have done large parts of the route itself. GPX files/links to Strava activities accepted as “proof”.
Finishers from the last three editions (since HT became 550 miles) will have a guaranteed place. An ITT finish also assures you of a place. This year I will take up to 60 names again and expect 40-50 to make the start line come May 27th. I’ll keep 10 places for women but won’t limit it to that should there be more female applicants. Also a minimum of 10 places will be for overseas riders, who should have experience of tough bikepacking routes/races where they are from.
The route for 2017 will be almost identical to this year. No E-bikes in the group start please!
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The lions are there to keep the cows off the riders.Landslide wrote:Blimey. As if the distance, climbing, unreliable water sources, and potential for inclement weather wasn't enough, they're adding lions into the mix?
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Hail the lions protectors of me! I'm married to Cat and she sometimes looks like that lion in the morning. Don't tell her I said that!Alpinum wrote: The lions are there to keep the cows off the riders.
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You will have to get a Mooove onKarl wrote:Alan is accepting requests for next years event from today! Who's asking for an invite?
http://www.highlandtrail.net
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Why would that be - too easy?Zippy wrote:I thought i read Cairngorm Loop was out...Lazarus wrote:I doubt it has changed but i dont knowIt’s NOW just over 5 weeks until I will start taking requests for places on the 2017 group start. Still not too late to get a qualifying ride in!
These include Lakeland 200, Cairngorms Loop and Yorkshire Dales 300. All should have been completed inside the time limits. I’ll also accept the northern or middle loop of the HT550. The main reason for having these “qualifiers” is for you to know what you are getting into and the best way is to have done large parts of the route itself. GPX files/links to Strava activities accepted as “proof”.
Finishers from the last three editions (since HT became 550 miles) will have a guaranteed place. An ITT finish also assures you of a place. This year I will take up to 60 names again and expect 40-50 to make the start line come May 27th. I’ll keep 10 places for women but won’t limit it to that should there be more female applicants. Also a minimum of 10 places will be for overseas riders, who should have experience of tough bikepacking routes/races where they are from.
The route for 2017 will be almost identical to this year. No E-bikes in the group start please!
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Crap, didn't know I should include Strava stuff. I guess I'll have to annoy him with another email.
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Rich, look at it from Alan's perspective: in the next few days he'll get fifty or sixty emails with people saying "I did x, y & z in 2018". With that info he's got to find the event and then find the results to verify that what the person saying is true, that's a lot of work. Remember that for the BB200/300 there are no "results" anyway. Strava/Trackleader links just mean he can click on the link and go "yes, they did that".Richard G wrote:Crap, didn't know I should include Strava stuff. I guess I'll have to annoy him with another email.
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I’ve sent my email too. A mate is coming over from the US for this and he’s also in. Let the training begin...
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I get it, there's just nothing on the site (that I could find) so I don't really know what I'm supposed to be doing.whitestone wrote:Rich, look at it from Alan's perspective: in the next few days he'll get fifty or sixty emails with people saying "I did x, y & z in 2018". With that info he's got to find the event and then find the results to verify that what the person saying is true, that's a lot of work. Remember that for the BB200/300 there are no "results" anyway. Strava/Trackleader links just mean he can click on the link and go "yes, they did that".Richard G wrote:Crap, didn't know I should include Strava stuff. I guess I'll have to annoy him with another email.