So having signed up for a Mayhem team in a fit of madness, there are now less than 5 days to go! Oh boy. Luckily there are only three other teams in our category, and we qualify as "oldies", so really there isn't any competition. If we really couldn't be bothered on the day, we could do our one lap each and then hit the bottle for the rest of the day. While that remains a distinct possibility (at least for one of our team, who apparently has a penchant for G&T), there's also the possibility that if we're just a little bit better than any of the other women in our category, we could get on the podium. How funny would that be!?
So that's the funny side of the story. The not so funny side is the question of women's involvement in mountain biking. It's something that's consumed rather a lot of my time this last couple of weeks, as there's been a fairly thorough discussion about it within one of the mountain bike clubs I belong too, which all came about because one my pals within the club suggested women-only rides. Personally I've been shocked by the heated debate it generated in comparison to, say, the introduction of a regular road ride. I'll come back to this another time (it's late now after all), but will just throw it in here as a taster of a discussion I plan to come back to. First I need to get my shit together for Mayhem. Eeekkk!
