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Mountain Mayhem Sportive: a great day out in the sun
A glorious sunny day greeted the riders on the inagural Original Source Mountain Mayhem Sportive sponsored by Verenti bikes in association with road.cc, a marathon title for a fast ride. 120 riders set out on the ride to tackle the 50km and 100km courses around the beautiful Malvern hills, and nearly everyone was back in time to watch the finish of the 24hr mountain bike racing and relax in the great atmostphere of the Mayhem festival.
Conditions couldn't really have been better, with sunny skies and light winds making for some fast times round the 100km loop. Even the road.cc team managed to sneak away from the tent for a bit and nip round the 50km course, although we had to take it in turns...
We've had lots of positive feedback from the ride and some good suggestions about how to make it better for next year; we certainly hope to be part of the event again. Thanks to all the riders and everyone who helped out on the stand too, and thanks to Mountain Mayhem's own Pat Adams for all his work on the organisation we'll be passing all your comments and suggestion, plus a few of our own, on to him and his team.
Check out the pics from the day above. I managed to get most of the 100kers but sorry if I missed anyone out on the course. The pics are also available on flickr - If you search for 'mayhem sportive rider [your number]' it'll show the pic of you if there is one. There's some unkown riders on there too, some whose numbers weren't legible and some without numbers as well.
Below are the results in number order. Apologies that there's a few names missing, if one of them is you then let us know and we'll amend accordingly!
Mountain Mayhem Sportive - finishing times
Time Name Start Finish 1 03:32:16 Mr G Thomas 08:02:00 11:34:16 2 03:55:04 Mark Watkins 08:12:41 12:07:44 3 04:56:30 Mr A J Grant 08:00:27 12:56:57 4 01:51:48 Thomas Tores 08:32:03 10:23:51 5 03:57:22 Rob Hucker 08:26:53 12:24:15 6 03:57:24 Dan Tucker 08:26:49 12:24:13 7 04:22:09 Mr Paul Rust 08:35:15 12:57:23 8 03:18:55 Mr Matthew Allen 08:17:59 11:36:54 9 04:02:02 Mr P Newson 08:15:05 12:17:06 10 03:51:07 G E Bond 08:01:15 11:52:22 11 03:30:50 Mr S Smith 08:02:31 11:33:20 12 04:35:07 Mr N Crump 08:40:45 13:15:52 13 04:32:40 Mrs L Irlam 07:59:58 12:32:38 14 04:32:31 Jim Irlam 08:00:06 12:32:37 15 04:13:04 Jeffrey C Locke 08:19:36 12:32:40 18 03:17:46 Leslie Dalley 08:08:28 11:26:13 19 04:18:54 Mr Roger S Kirkwood 08:33:41 12:52:35 20 04:01:40 David Clark 08:00:13 12:01:53 21 03:56:11 Warren Bumpsteed 08:00:25 11:56:35 22 04:36:35 Mr James D F Randell 08:39:23 13:15:57 24 03:42:18 Mr Martin P Preece 08:45:16 12:27:34 25 03:42:20 Andrew Preece 08:45:11 12:27:31 26 03:52:11 Mr Richard Robinson 08:09:49 12:02:00 27 04:08:21 Ms Joanna J Cox 08:16:10 12:24:30 28 03:52:14 Tim Darke 08:09:45 12:01:59 29 03:32:10 C E Williams 08:02:10 11:34:19 30 03:49:21 Lewis Potter 08:17:31 12:06:52 34 02:09:00 Mrs Tracey A Hare 08:00:02 10:09:02 35 04:46:22 Miss S J Brown 08:04:43 12:51:04 36 04:01:23 Name not listed 08:15:09 12:16:31 38 04:14:33 Mr David M Garrett 08:12:19 12:26:52 39 04:29:11 William J Turnbull 08:36:04 13:05:14 40 04:48:52 Mr D A Stringer 08:00:10 12:49:02 41 01:56:05 Dan Battershill 08:42:55 10:39:00 42 04:22:04 Harry Rainbird 08:10:24 12:32:27 43 03:53:07 Oliver Christian 08:26:36 12:19:43 44 03:57:24 Christopher Mills 08:26:39 12:24:03 45 03:05:18 Chris Bees 08:26:41 11:31:59 46 05:02:51 James Bricknell 08:26:38 13:29:29 47 03:59:03 J Turnbull 08:36:03 12:35:05 49 04:14:58 Rm Hunt 08:11:24 12:26:21 50 03:47:10 Mr L M Teverini 08:00:15 11:47:24 52 04:52:26 Simon Marks 09:38:12 14:30:37 54 04:30:02 Katie V Fishwick 08:10:11 12:40:13 55 04:45:33 Thomas Ganderton 08:32:20 13:17:53 56 04:43:35 David Nash 08:32:25 13:15:59 57 03:41:29 Mr James Dominic Vaughan 08:00:30 11:41:58 59 04:49:32 Mr Leo A Verling 08:42:35 13:32:07 60 03:35:57 James Page 08:12:10 11:48:06 61 04:52:27 Roger Mills 09:38:10 14:30:36 67 01:55:13 Russell H Robson 08:12:05 10:07:18 68 03:51:02 M S Tilstone 08:46:50 12:37:52 69 03:54:00 Norman Bassett 08:46:50 12:40:50 70 03:30:10 David Shannon 08:04:11 11:34:20 71 03:41:43 Mr Simon Kellam 08:04:52 11:46:35 72 04:13:06 Mr Steven Wakley 08:19:30 12:32:35 73 04:13:00 Mr A Brackston 08:19:33 12:32:32 74 04:18:09 Luke Maris 09:08:06 13:26:15 75 04:16:02 Mr S Jansen Van Vuuren 09:07:08 13:23:10 76 04:13:06 Mr A B Lawrence 08:19:34 12:32:40 77 04:12:58 Mr Mark Sheardown 08:19:36 12:32:34 78 04:13:09 Mr Sj Magill 08:19:27 12:32:36 79 03:55:26 Mr Steve M Walters 08:08:38 12:04:03 84 03:26:13 J K Elkin 08:31:29 11:57:41 85 04:45:24 M A Childs 08:23:08 13:08:31 86 02:22:24 R A Perkins 08:22:59 10:45:22 88 01:36:33 Robby Goldbin 08:43:20 10:19:53 89 03:42:23 Mr G J Llewhellin 08:04:54 11:47:17 91 02:17:44 Tony Farrelly 10:40:00 12:04:44 92 02:41:11 Elaine Curtin 11:10:00 13:51:11 93 02:19:47 Lara Dunn 08:06:34 10:26:21 94 02:19:46 Robin Dickson 08:06:32 10:26:18 95 02:16:40 Thomas Mcgowran 09:50:00 12:06:40 96 03:37:11 Ian Lewis 08:04:50 11:42:00 97 04:46:16 Steve Higgins 08:04:46 12:51:01 98 03:58:59 Ian Mellor 08:23:15 12:22:13 99 03:14:45 Jon Cannings 08:31:44 11:46:28 100 04:01:18 Leigh Birchard 08:15:14 12:16:32 101 02:04:48 Adrian Vos 08:21:10 10:25:57 102 04:25:17 Name not listed 08:57:57 13:23:13 103 03:42:58 Paul Flynn 08:23:53 12:06:50 104 03:51:18 Scott O'Neill 08:35:36 12:26:53 105 04:26:42 Andrew Fletcher 08:58:03 13:24:45 106 04:52:30 Robbie Hyde 09:38:08 14:30:38 107 03:50:27 Sara Symington 08:58:15 12:48:41 108 03:50:24 Georgina Sharples 08:58:17 12:48:41 109 04:07:46 Mark Lawrence 08:35:33 12:43:18 110 04:13:55 Name not listed 08:22:05 12:35:59 111 04:13:54 Name not listed 08:22:07 12:36:01 112 03:30:00 Martin Lines 08:02:34 11:32:34 113 04:35:43 Guy Stanton 08:40:30 13:16:13 114 04:36:34 Will Richards 08:28:49 13:05:22 115 03:30:48 Adam Willis 08:02:33 11:33:20 116 03:31:07 D Tarbuck 08:03:23 11:34:30 117 03:43:20 Lisa Ballantyre 08:02:51 11:46:11 118 03:22:53 Mick Ballantrye 08:20:50 11:43:42 119 04:57:04 Roy Stanley 08:00:32 12:57:36 120 03:19:09 Richard Pearman 08:54:15 12:13:24 121 04:36:36 Rob Richards 08:28:47 13:05:22 122 04:36:40 Gary Meek 08:28:46 13:05:25 123 04:36:37 Steve Greenway 08:28:45 13:05:22 124 04:28:39 David Mehaffey 08:28:11 12:56:50 125 04:22:07 Jonathan Vowles 08:18:05 12:40:11 126 04:15:43 Georgina Bailey 08:18:03 12:33:45 127 03:26:46 Hannah Bussey 08:19:48 11:46:33 128 05:03:57 Name not listed 08:46:55 13:50:52 129 03:17:42 D Hartley 08:08:31 11:26:12 130 03:19:47 M Hill 08:26:46 11:46:33 131 04:15:25 JR Garrett 08:37:08 12:52:33 132 04:44:13 Nathan Bradford 08:37:10 13:21:23 133 04:05:04 Luke Bradford 08:36:28 12:41:31 134 04:05:04 Teresa Roberts 08:15:07 12:20:10 135 03:19:01 Pieter Maessen 08:54:19 12:13:20 136 03:19:03 Carolyn Hewett 08:54:18 12:13:21 137 03:18:30 Dave Lee 08:28:00 11:46:30 138 03:17:33 Jeremy Pile 08:00:08 11:17:40 139 03:56:08 David Bridges 08:08:30 12:04:38 140 04:18:53 Alison Thomas 08:11:37 12:30:30
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
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So who else did both Mayhem and the sportive then ?
Wasn't so keen on the road from Malvern to Upton as it was quite busy, but that small niggle aside, it was a great event! Some fantastic views on teh way round. A very big thank you to all involved!
Great event, fab weather, beautiful scenery - I enjoyed every minute!
Thank you to the organisers - I look forward to next year. (might even camp!)
DC
Many thanks for organizing this, it was great.
Really enjoyed the whole weekend and the route was fantastic, getting most of the climbing out the way in the first half, allowed us to belt along for quite a while in the middle and picking up some pairs and solos meant we had a group of 12 or so.
Fantastic, will be on the calender for next year.
Thanks again.
Mark.
i've attached the timing spreadsheet file to the story, you can sort it to your heart's content
We'll see what we can do Firefoot, re who did the 50Km think you can take it as read that anyone with a sub 3 hour time did the 50Km, there weren't very many of us
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Was a great route, the weather made it all the better. Thanks to all that played a part organising and setting up, esp all the marshalls that had to sit out in the sun for the duration.
Also good to have a chat with Dave/road.cc, even though I am gutted to find that an Equilibrium will not be big enough for me! Good job wiggle/verenti were next door (other suggestions for a winter training bike also happily taken)
I don't think I've enjoyed any sportive as much as this one. We came up on Saturday and camped so we had the chance to really enjoy the mountain biking event. The Sunday ride was a lovely route. We'll definitely be back next year.
Great Rout and camp site whole week end was good and the weather certainly helped. Is there any way that we can sort out the times and list to state who did the 50k and 100k and and post it by finishing order rather than number order?