SITS ’08 AKA - ‘Slippery Out of the Saddle!’

“Mud, mud glorious mud, nothing quite like it for cooling the blood…So follow me follow, down to the hollow and there let me wallow in glorious mud!!”

I’m pretty sure that I could hear this song being hummed by many competitors throughout the event as they slipped, slided, slithered and occasionally turned a pedal on their way round the 9th edition of Sleepless in the Saddle, or should that now be renamed Slippery out of the Saddle!!!...”

Chris Duncan – Endura

“We were very happy with the event, we did over 200 hundred shorts in the amnesty and we’ll be taking them all home to sell on eBay…. No only joking they’ll go to textile recycling.

The highlights of the event, well for the team that was getting back into it again after losing our enthusiasm as our bikes began to break, oh and another highlight was being 10th at one point too, but we slipped to 41st, sleep was more important. Not bad with two broken bikes. In the end we were using the 2 remaining bikes between us all. The mud was character building!

Everyone here were very much Endura people, we enjoyed it and we’ll be back!”

If you’d like to know more about this event and how the racing unfolded check out the BC link above..