2W Gravity Enduro!

Liam took this sick photo on the Sunday after the event.

The 2W (two wheels) Gravity Enduro was epic fun! Gravity enduro is a quickly growing type of mountain bike racing that is very popular because of the fun and social factors. This October's 2W had five different race stages that had to be completed in five hours. Each race stage was mainly down hill with only a few small climbs. The three to fifteen minute runs were spread throughout the Red Woods meaning we had to navigate our way to each race stage and back to the start/finish within the five hours. Your result was your best times added up from the five race runs. There were limited shuttles and we could do the tracks in whatever order we wanted and repeat our runs as many times as we could fit in order to improve our time. This made it fun because it was all quite strategic! 

Working out what route to take! photo credit Sophiemarie. 

To make the event even more fun you could compete as part of a  team of five where all your times were added up to give you a team result as well. We got together a 'mixed' team with my brother Liam, sister Sophiemarie, Kim Wright and Charlotte Rayner.

We all had a great time (well most of us, until Liam went way to fast over a small jump and ate some dirt! He had no broken bones, but was to sore to ride with a massive swollen lip). Here is a short video I put together showing the awesome time we had on the weekend:

The tracks were absolutely amazing and it was great to race in a more relaxed format where we could really just have heaps of fun on our bikes. Unfortunately we could not get a team result because Liam was unable to finish the event, but my sister Sophiemarie won the under 23 women and the rest of the Jafa Kids girls, Charlotte and Harriet, made the podium. I was stoked to finish 3rd fastest in under 23 and 27th out of over 300 riders.

Another awesome photo on the 'Boulder Dash' track, by Page Weir.