Mongoose rushed through the delivery of my new Slayton trail bike, Hope sent some custom coloured parts, Continental set me up with some ideal tyres and Oakley hooked up my 2013 googles and suddenly most of my year's sponsorship was with me in the space of a week! I panicked. How to set up my new bike?! Well, when I got home after watching Twilight 3 with Rebecca (Bella should have picked Jacob, but then again he could do sooo much better) The Elves* had been in and my bike was pretty much set and ready to go!! Magic!
I set my alarm for 3 am Sat morning and flew to Belfast. I hate flying, but as I was working I had to stay off the wine and the valium. On such a short flight the upness and downess of the plane is sickening. I heard my cousin's words of wisdom in my head "It has to go down, or else it'd stay up, then what'd you do? Stay in the sky forever?!" She's clever my cousin. It helped.
I remembered how much I love the TV crew as soon as I arrived, bear hugs, hair ruffling and instant belly laughing, it's really the dream team!
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| By @Adamheayberd |
First up was my interview with MTB heart-throb Gee The Fox Atherton, who is even more lovely in real life. Foxes aren't quite as impressive as warewolves, or vampires for that matter, but if Gee had supernatural powers he'd be right up there in the human/creature sexiest Top 10.
OK I stumbled over my words a couple of times, but I swear to god it wasn't because the camera man was making suggestive eye-contact over Gee's shoulder at me when I was trying so hard to act cool, I just forgot my questions a bit as there were loads of them!
My slayton got put straight to use after that cycling around Belfast City. (The new titanic centre has had over 500,000 visitors since it opened in April!) It was a long but fun day, ruined only by staying in Faulty fucking Towers. Yes, I'll name and shame. The Lansdowne Court was so bad I demanded a taxi and new hotel at 11pm. (Bear in mind, I live in a basement with no heating, no hot water and woodlice for company, I am NOT a diva....imagine how bad it was!)
So feeling pretty tired it was Race Day Sunday...and it was Ace of Spades. It's going to be a really cool feature so I won't give too much away, other than that it was a mudfest. A few things to note:
- Gee started mid field, so I don't really understand why it was called a Foxhunt where the game was to try and not get caught by the Fox. The Fox didn't catch me, nor did I finish ahead...?!...However EVERYONE bloody loved it, and I'm not a stickler for rules, so I'm gonna let it go (ish) and just love the fact that I raced, en-masse, down a super greasy, muddy hill in Northern Ireland. Happy days.
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| By @Adamheayberd |
Also, I was cold at the end but we had more filming to do. Then, as we were scrambling up a hill in the undergrowth the guy ahead of me kicked a wasps nest!!! I freaked the fuck out, squealed and ran back down the hill, tripping on a bramble and tumbling over. Convinced the wasps had swarmed and followed me I threw my hands over my head and waited. They hadn't. This wasn't caught on camera and not only that, No-one believed me as they hadn't seen the wasps. But here's the evidence: I warmed right up. If there hadn't been a wasps nest how would I have had such an adrenaline spike to make me really warm? Huh? Yeah....Exactly.
*Elves = Amazing Big Brother
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