Owen and I share a love of the great outdoors, between us we're always coming up with daft ideas and events to do, just to see if we can. Whether it's completing the Wainwrights, cycling the Fred Whitton Challenge, running up Ben Nevis, flying down hills as fast as we can or doing the Coast to Coast we love getting out and about.
Go Cumbria started on our way back home from Strathpuffer (www.strathpuffer.co.uk) - what a fantastic event! For anyone that doesn't know what it is, it's a 24 hour mountain bike event in Scotland, just north of Inverness. If a 24 hour bike event isn't tough enough, this one is held in January, in Scotland, the north of Scotland. It was dark for 17 of the 24 hours, it dropped to minus 8 degrees and the heater in my van stopped working. In between laps to keep warm we had to double up on base layers and sleeping bags just to keep warm... but while we were out on track it was quite an experience, one I will never forget and one I hope to repeat again.
Anyway, on the drive home Owen and I agreed we wanted to do the 'Puffer again and couldn't wait to sign up for the 2018 event. From that the conversation grew and we started wondering if there were similar events nearer to home in Cumbria. We couldn't find one so decided we wanted to set up our own 24 hour mountain bike event.
As much as he might claim this was all my idea, Owen is the brains behind what came next. As I was sat eating my tea one night Owen phoned and suggested rather than jumping straight into organising a 24 hour bike event, it might be easier (yes that's right, easier) to arrange other events first, so rather than arranging one 24 hour mountain bike event we decided to arrange running, cycling and mountain biking events in and around the Lakes and here we are - Go Cumbria is born.
We just want to do all the things we love doing, but a bit closer to home and share it all with you.
Paddy
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