Highland Trail 550

I'm having rather dangerous thoughts about this ride

http://www.highlandtrail.net/

Anybody fancy racing?

I don't think I'd race that, I'd just try and survive. Plus I'm busy on the 23th.

This looks right up my strasse.

Might be worth reading these if you haven't done so already...

Phil Simcock's report 1, 2, 3 and 4

Ian Barrington's video and report

i hope you're thinking of doing this on a fixed 29er

What are you planning for your qualifying ride? Lakeland 200?

Hell,yes..... digs out the Whyte 146s, and starts planning, ......two weeks next year.........now when are there no midges????

''now when are there no midges????''

When everything looks like this.

hardy scottish highland midges

the toughest midges on earth

That looks amazing.

Paris-Brest-Paris is kind of getting in the way of doing this next year. Depending on what stupid ideas I get about TCR in 2016, I might see about it then. Still an awesome looking event.

Will have to use these.....don't 'do' midges

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2017 is go! Here's the tracking http://trackleaders.com/highland17

I'm guessing its much drier going than previous years?

There were torrential rains and thunderstorms here in Glasgow yesterday, though only intermittently. Could be drier up north though. At least it is still warm.

Looks like gabes has scratched?

Yep. Hope he's ok

Bugger. Was his knee playing up?

Sadly, yes. Posted on Instagram that his knee injury flared up again. He rode back to the start, and it's worsened so looks like he made the right decision.

That's a shame!

Ah, balls, that sucks. I hope he can get it sorted out before his next race.

Bad luck Gabes! Rest easy!

So Neil Beltchenko has finished in a time of 3:10:24, which I think is a new record by some margin.

First* winter attempt: http://phased.co.uk/the-highland-trail-first-winter-attempt/

*turns out it's actually the second, someone else tried it a couple of weeks before this and made it a little bit further before pulling the plug