MTB Uber Mudfest!!! (4K) 2024-05-26

The 2024 Yorkshire Mountain Bike Marathon was more of a Mudathon.
It's amazing how 400-500 bikes can chew up wet ground and turn it into oozing claggy mud that wraps around your wheels so you can hardly move. The 24 miles was probably the equivalent to 50 based on the actual effort needed to plough (literally) through the mud.
Good fun though and I plan to return for 2025 in the hope of better conditions as the single track sections looked fantastic, flowy and a lot of fun weather permitting.
Strava : / strava
NOTE: much of the route is not open for public access other than for the annual event so please don't use the Strava for the basis of your own privateer ride.
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[@paralogregt]

My sister who was marshalling told me it was bad. It really was. I am in canada watching it. Originally from Birdsall. Know them woods well.

[@nickhagen6230]

Very difficult conditions for sure!!! Last year was nearly too hot, this year too muddy!! What will we get in 2025??

[@MTB_Martin]

Yes I heard that the problems in 2023 were dust, heat, hydration and sunstroke. It couldn't have been any more different this year. I hope to enter in 2025 - let's hope I don't jinx it again! How did you fair this year?