MY FIRST EVER XC RACE WAS SO HARD!!!

[@traildoug415]

"My legs felt like cheese strings." I'm stealing that.

[@royrcf]

Excellent video really enjoyed that,

[@PinnedTV]

Cheers

[@gazevo7056]

I'm blown out of my arse just watching that 🤘

[@sixstanger00]

19th out of 85 is smoking fast for your first XC. The new season starts next weekend here in the States. This will be my 3rd consecutive full season. I love XC racing, even though everything the guy at the start of the video said is true -- from start to finish, you're in the hurt locker. But as a rider, racing XC has improved my skills, power, fitness, etc a hundred fold.

[@PinnedTV]

🇺🇸🤘🤘

[@carlpilbeam5216]

Well done Jim good placing and the vlog was as good 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧✅✅

[@josephdunbar2105]

XC will whip you in to shape big time

[@PinnedTV]

True

[@scoobgirl]

19th for your 1st event is well cool, Good stuff Jim

[@ktmpilotman]

Great video Jim. Couldn’t help but make motorbike noises whilst watching your headcam 😂😂😂😂. I love your channel.

[@mtbjones9625]

Good effort pinned tv no pain no gain 🤘🤘

[@raykleiner3151]

Enjoyed that!

[@PinnedTV]

I didn't!! 🤣🤣

[@raykleiner3151]

@@PinnedTV Its great watching other people suffer in races!! :)

[@jamiearmitage2002]

Well Played! Jim

[@greystokedmtb4547]

Well done Jim, I’ve done the winter classic a couple of times and it’s not easy on the lungs. 19th is very respectful.

[@richpearson753]

Well done mate, for a first attempt top 20 is something to be proud of, I know I'd be well happy with that 🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@citruslee]

Great blog that Jim.. bloody brutal. Big fan of watching the xc women’s World Cup , for..ahem..various reasons.

[@deanallan48]

Well done to both of you, Cannock is my local trail so glad you enjoyed it.

[@5492sparky]

Great effort Jim. Fair play Mate that looked hard work!

[@steveford6541]

Great video as always well done chaps 👍

[@stu061]

Nice one Jim!👍. Used to ride Cannock XC’s in the early nineties still looks the same. Your first lap reminds me of my motorbike enduro days, bust a gut to keep in there, then just go with the flow. 🤘

[@christyler4381]

Pain, pain, pain!!!.. Did an xc race on a kona koa rigid, back in the nineties.. Finished 4th,but said I'd never do one again, nearly killed me!!!.. Never have either.. Good effort though Jim, made me remember how hard they are..

[@samroberts8237]

It looks quite fun tbf, never thought I’d say that. Will have to look at a race for training and a bit of fun. Great vid once again, cheers Jim and Tod #keepitpinned

[@davidtaylor2430]

Fair play mate.....I couldn't think of anything worse ! Gravity is there for a good reason lol

[@michaelroberts108]

Hopefully run and ride can put the dirty duathlon on this year. It’s a 1 mile x country run followed by 1 lap of the course Jim did then another 1 mile run. Brutal but fun

[@PinnedTV]

💪🤘

[@johnparkes2994]

Well done Jim👍, I think that I would of been dead at the end of the first lap! Look a good crack though.

[@iinnthewwoods4725]

Awesome brother.

[@jamieedgerton4021]

Brilliant blog jim it was my first race proper enjoyed it you was right about that one climb it was a bastered climb 😂😂 mint day though riding bikes managed to get 2nd in the fatbike class after watching your blogs made me think of more enduro now cheers keep it pinned 👍🏼👍🏼

[@shauncarpenter2054]

I rode xc in the mid 90's and approach all riding as if it is xc,don't push too hard at the start and find your rhythm, I'll be doing a 6hr endurance race in June, wish me luck.

[@PinnedTV]

Good luck mate

[@keithroostan4820]

Good advice from the fella with the on one, that bike looked mint! Tod looked like it hurt when he finished his race. Fire road sprinting and single track cruising. Still enjoy these events though.

[@yanmills]

Well done both That looked like a hard race

[@ScottJonesMTB]

Same course as the Dirty Duathlon. That was run - then ride - then run. Hardest thing I have ever done and I am a marathon runner. Well done on the race and the edit. Good stuff.

[@chrisroberts9860]

Great video Jim!!! See you at Llandegla on Sunday.

[@patrickmaher6420]

I’m one of those Lycra clad weirdos and I really enjoy Xc racing . I use Lycra because it doesn’t flap around like baggy stuff does. Great vid I think you went out too hard at start. I had to learn to NOT do that so I’d have more left during mid and end of race. I’m 62 yo

[@PinnedTV]

Haha good on ya mate

[@onlygazza]

Well done Jim 👍

[@markczechalien3592]

Very cool, hoping to enter my first race later this year or early next

[@robrobinson420]

Well done great ride . I was racing xc in the days you did downhill and used do 30 mile xc enduro raced too it do make u v fit i loved bk then

[@TheBikeRoom]

Great 👍🏼 effort! Well done both. My lad Sam did the Battle on the Beach in Pembrey in Wales and was his first XC event. I’m yet to pluck up the courage .

[@mybigtube1]

that looked tough dude hats off to you an Tod , keep it pinned !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@CaBdosdos]

Great video, I unfortunately had my fist XC as a novice and had to sign up with the cat 1/pro guys who were all the lycra bros. Needless to say I got smoked and everyone was very clicky but man it was still hell of a great time just riding.

[@hinksy666]

Great video :) enjoyed watching from somebody else's perspective! us lycra clad weirdos were all in the main afternoon race lol. that would've been a different experience altogether!. great riding :).

[@PinnedTV]

Yeh I'm sure!! Respect 🤘

[@danlay5909]

Good insight to your first xc, don’t think I’ll be rushing to do one anytime soon though 😂 looking forward to Todd’s race too

[@nealwaterman4138]

Good work dude. I’d be up for one of these if you do another. No pain no gain.

[@robertmitchell7081]

Well done to you both maybe you can do another one with sunny as well

[@scottmanley2020]

Take my hat off to you both, can we see some more of this kind of thing??

[@jim_mountain_88]

That was a great vid

[@Raiderofthelostloam]

Fairplay I've done a few of the r n r races and there tough and some super fast quys whizing round the dirty duathlon they do is also fun

[@robertbransby]

Top stuff! Well done to both of you, looked hard work in places. Tods helmet looked a tad big and wobbly though 👍

[@Stopadoodledoo]

Well done Jim, 19th’s not shabby at all. Did a few XC races back in the day as something different to DH racing and like you, found it damned hard but strangely enjoyable. Frustrating getting held up on the downhill bits and frustrating getting smoked on the climbs!

[@TrailHuntingMTBeer]

Fair play mate 😬. Been a few years since I raced XC, & I don’t recall enjoying it 😂

[@glenbo1445]

Great vid!!

[@MTB_Derbyshire]

Took me back to the 90s there. Did an East Midlands xc series around Sherwoood Pines . I thought I was fit but the lads destroyed me. Finished about 1/4 of the way down the order.....but I gave it up to save my sanity. Though last year I got the itch and entered the Wednesday night summer time trial at the pines. I was riding my own race, easing in but a massive burp on tubeless wrecked it..... Maybe this year.. 🤔

[@tomaszmichalka201]

That looks cool, I think like you. Don't know what to expect as I always race in DH or Enduro where you don't have to pedal that much. Good challenge that is I guess.

[@PinnedTV]

Was a killer!!

[@charliewilliams5589]

Yeehaa, well done Jim.

[@PAULPICKLES]

Brilliant! Well done guys! If you ever fancy a trip down south, we have the Brighton Big Dog xc race! It's an endurance race, 6 hours over roughly a 6 mile loop. Painful climbs but awesome wild descents and all in the woods! Please check it out. Hopefully see you down here!🤘

[@7dayplumbingservices195]

Where do you find those races ? 15 km race how long did it took roughly? Great video thanks

[@chaddavidroberts]

How long did the entire race take for you?

[@PinnedTV]

Maybe an hour, was a while ago

[@mogulhopper]

GOOD ON YOU JIM !! Suffering for your art ! Sorry to say but hearing you blowing like that was amusing we never hear you like that ! Commentary was still good even though you were clearly on the floor . A great Pinned video AGAIN !

[@yicafresh]

I was in the beginners race before you and watching it again is mad. That rooty hill made me throw up! You did class as that ‘fun’ race has people in who should be in elite !! There is not many Lycra boys there and a proper good laugh .. well done both of you

[@Monkey_slapping_keys]

Cannock is a blower racing or not, good effort.

[@budycelyn]

do you need to have a British cycling membership to race at these things ? thinking of having a crack in the new year 2020

[@PinnedTV]

No mate

[@budycelyn]

how are you fairing now with the fitness? I've seen you on the gravel bike facebook pages recently, different kind of riding and maybe more base fitness than the enduro stuff. and i never did have a crack at the 2020 xc season.. obviously.

[@PinnedTV]

Yeh picking it back up a bit now

[@gazzasbike]

Looked like hard work that did well done Jim, so would you enter again??

[@PinnedTV]

Yes, but on a more suitable bike!

[@Molineux1980]

Well done Jim, first one for me too! Started near the back and wound up just back from you in 21st. Looks just as hard as it felt! 🤟

[@PinnedTV]

Bloody hell, you must have been hauling then! 🤘

[@Molineux1980]

Cheers dude, I was breathing out my arse by the end! Definitely would've suited a hardtail, not an enduro bike!

[@royrcf]

Excellent effort , really enjoyed that , great video. BIKE LOOKED A BIT HEAVY FOR XC, YOU NEED A NEW XC BIKE.

[@PACEUK22]

Did anyone attempt this on a full suss? Great vid 👊

[@PinnedTV]

Yeh there were lads on full enduro bikes!!

[@quinnfranchina6876]

Bruh...

[@stuartrathbone5403]

Top quartile 👌 Great effort for your xc cherry. BTW how long was the race, time/distance?

[@PinnedTV]

3 X 5k laps 53 minutes mate

[@yicafresh]

Have a look at the lap times! The lad who won my beginners did 17 minute laps and would of been 3rd in elite lol

[@yicafresh]

sha b you did not ruin my day at all , and if it was your first race then fair play to you as that’s what that group is for .. I will be watching you in the future as you were super fast 👍

[@ericpetuska1455]

Nice job boys, my lungs hurt from watching that! Keep it pinned!

[@dorismorris]

Don’t think I could manage to do one 🌬 💨 💨

[@royrcf]

19th was cool,

[@tomasklimo3480]

It looks harder than I tho Jimbo

[@shayduzmtb56]

I like Enduro XC is ok

[@jamesherd9132]

Nice one Jimbo and Tod keep it Pinned

[@riderrunco]

Think xc hard try cx.

[@PinnedTV]

We've been told!! 😲

[@gweflj]

Hill, Melamed, Graves etc all race XC in the pre and post season. You want top end? Nothing compares.