The next race is at Fire Road 24, Santon Downham (just the other side of Brandon - still technically Thetford Forrest), on the 6th December.

Addenbrooke's have said that they will be turning up to this event, so it would be good to have a few people hanging around.

If you are interested in coming along, email me at stuart.judd@virgin.net and I can supply directions and start times.

See you there.

Give it some Berries race jerseys and T-shirts are under production and should be available this week.

Those who donate a suitably large amount to the charity will get a jersey.....FREE!!

Well where do we start, the weather was bad......then good.....then bad again.....the out came the sun to top off an excellent days racing.

Congratulations to all the chaps at the weekend, all 4 riders finished their races, and all picked up good results!!

296 Paul Bowden - 53rd (2hr-16-39)

213 Chris Bray - 48th (2hr-16-39)

582 Alec Robson - 27th (2hr-40+)

12 Stuart Judd - 16th (4hr-16-39)

Full results can be found here: http://www.timelaps.co.uk/assets/uploads/EventReport.aspx?eventID=102FireRoad6Thetford01/11/2009

A big thanks to all who supported us on Race day, it was a great turnout, especially Geoff (newly appointed Team, Logistics and Nutrition manager!), who yet again did a fantastic job with the bottles and the van.

Riders quotes on the day,

Paul - "My legs were cramping up, but I was reasonably happy as I was still ahead of Alec, however about half way round the old git passed me as if I was stationery!"

Chris - when questioned by Stuart " so where did you come?" - "erm...not telling you!"

Alec - "I thought Paul was going to stay away from me, then I caught him on the last lap - tapped him on the shoulder and said - your'e IT!!"

Stuart - "I was ridding in the lead group of 6 for half of the first lap......then my legs fell off and I dropped to 26th!"

Pictures courtesy of MTBRacePhotos.co.uk

Mountain Bike Racing Photography By Dave Franciosy

The first race is under a week away, looks like Malc's bad knees will be keeping out of the first round, hopefully he will be good enough for the December event.

Chris Bray, Alec Robson, Paul Bowden (uncle monkey) and Stuart Judd are all signed up and ready to go in the following catagories:

Chris Bray - 2 hour seniors.
Paul Bowden - 2 hour seniors.
Alec Robson - 2 hour vets.
Stuart Judd - 4 hour seniors.

First Rcae is Brandon forest, Fire Road 6 (between Elvedon to Brandon road, same side as Centre Parks).

Give it some Berries will be competing in the 2009/10 Thetford MTB Winter Series, and in the process raising money for the Addenbrooke's Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.

http://www.justgiving.com/Thomas-Stuart-Judd

Please take a look at the website and donate all you can.

We will update this blog with pictures and results from the events as they happen.

Cheers.