Dates and venues 2008
Builth Wells (Wales) 12 -
Ruthin (Wales) 24 -
Aviemore (Scotland)
21 – 22nd June 2008
details to be confirmed
Builth Wells (Wales): 5 -
Bad Goisern
(Austria) 12th July 2008
Merida Bikes MTB Marathon Series ‘on holiday’
Selkirk (Scotland)
2 -
Penrith (Cumbria) 13 -
2008 setup
The MTB marathon will be run in its
usual format with signing on, skills classes, pasta party and event village on the
Saturday with the ride following on the Sunday morning. As part of the entry fee
riders will have free parking and free usage of the facilities and camping. So rather
than doing a quick stop over to take part in the marathon we believe it will be well
worth coming over for a few days and making a proper little holiday of it. You can
find some more details on all our events on the events pages.
The new big addition
to the 2008 series are the GORE BIKEWEAR Road Sportives. The events will feature
two different courses and will be run on the Saturday of four of the event weekends
(see dates above). The sportive riders will enjoy the same entry package as the marathon
riders do and are invited to make a proper cycling weekend out of the event. The
entry fee for the sportives includes ride entry, free camping and parking, free ‘after
ride’ food, free usage of service stations, finishing present for everyone and a
good chance to win one of the many spot prizes given out at the finish line. Read
all the details here.
The 2008 series (except the Aviemore round – here 20, 40 and
60km) will feature the 4 popular route lengths of 25km (Mini marathon), 50km, 75km
and the classic 100km course so that everyone can find the right course length. John
has been spending pretty much the whole winter finding new trails and will try to
improve the courses where they need to be improved.
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