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Hi All,

So I spent the weekend with the WXC team in Newcastleton at Rock UK. My first time climbing real hills and proper night ride with 20+ people - what an amazing sight seeing all those lights weaving through the misty forest

Anyone thinking of going and riding ther I'd say it's well worthwhile, lots of decent trails, Rock UK is also a great place to stay. I'll see if I can load some Garmin images for you.

Here's some more pics:

Hey Peet - great write up and loving the pics. i had never heard of http://www.wxcmountainbikeracing.co.uk/ so it was interesting reading about it. Sounds like a cool concept. Where do you normally ride?

There looks to be some fierce elevation on those routes you posted. I loved the week I did up in the borders a while back.

I'm the non-blonde one WXC is only in it's 2nd year. They are trying really hard to get more women into competitive mtb'ing and seem to doing ok so far with a bunch of good sponsors. It was actually a team building weekend and a chance to get photos for the sponsors. The hills were hard, if you knew what my bike was like you would laugh as I was flying down the red routes with no rear brakes and no suspension New bike on the horizon though, hopefully in the next few weeks.

I tend to go to Epping when I can otherwise I'm doing laps around Trent Park. None of the wxc team live near each other so we never get to train together. Once I get my new bike I'll def be up for some longer rides, not got climbing legs yet but ok on the downhill. Desperate to get hold of a full face helmet and try some jumps and DH stuff though - can't believe all those fun jumps at Enfield trails are so close and I don't have the gear to play Might drop over on Sat with my camera and take some action shots though, haven't checked the place out yet.

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Enfield runs good in the dry but I imagine that in these conditions it wont be great. We are still doing a few Epping rides despite the stoggy mud. Hope to see you out on a ride once you have your bike all sorted!