24 Hours of Great Glen Race Report
11:58 am: SO HYPED This was it, the final year of the 24 Hours of Great Glen. I remember my dad doing this race the first time it happened, when I was 14, in 1996. There were 22 teams. There was a hurricane. The stopped racing in the middle of the night because the camping area was flooding. How they decided to run the event for a second year after THAT, I will never know. When I heard that The Greatest Mountain Bike Event Of All Time was ending, my first reaction was "hmm, maybe I should promote a 24 hour race," and then I started thinking about it and OH MY GOD is that an obscene amount of work. I got promoter anxiety just THINKING about the number of moving parts that go into a well-produced 24 hour race. It makes every race I have ever put on look like child's play. So, Great Glen folks, thanks for sacrificing your sanity and stress levels for two decades. You've given thousands of mountain bikers a uniquely awesome e...