Mountain Mayhem 2009 Photo Gallery

The Altura Patterson Training team of Jenn O'Connor, Annabel Simpson, Ruth Mordaunt and Nadine Spearing won the Open Women category in the Original Source Mountain Mayhem 2009. We fought off strong competition from the Beyond Babes and Salsa Factory Racing, but in the end we clocked up 27 laps, a lap up on second place.

We'll have a full race report up soon, but in the meantime, please take a look at this wonderful collection of images from event photographer Rob Crayton.

Above: The start grid stretched out for about 100 metres as riders lined up for the run. Nadine is a former top 400m runner and did the honours for our team.

Below: Team Leader and 4x Mayhem Solo Champion Jenn O'Connor has competed in every Mountain Mayhem event since 2001, making this her 9th Mayhem.

Below: 19-year-old Annabel Simpson was the youngest team member, riding at Mayhem for the first time. She had never even ridden a bike at night before, let alone raced in the dark, and says Mayhem was "the hardest thing she's ever done". Nonetheless she did a full share of the laps, including night laps, and clocked some of the fastest lap times for the team.

Below: Masters racer Ruth Mordaunt has had a tough time this year, losing her Dad to cancer. She was understandably behind with her training coming into this race, but rose to the occasion, putting in impressive lap times and smiling for the full 24 hours. Ruth did the "glory lap" and picked up the medals for the team.

Below: Elite racer Nadine Spearing was fighting off a cold in the week leading up to Mayhem and wasn't sure if she would even be able to ride, but stuck it out for the full duration, as well as doing the run to start the race for the team. Here she is givin' it some up the notorious Kenda Climb.

Below: Coach Andrew Patterson got a place on the Adidas Eyewear 10-person fun team, and got to take his Scalpel out for a rip around the course for three laps.

Above: Ruth crosses the line to shake Pat's hand and take the finishing honours for the team.

Below: On the top step of the podium, in our fantastic Altura kit, and in our Champions' jerseys.

Another great event, thanks to Pat Adams and his team. A bit of sun, a bit of mud, a couple of crashes, a box of Honey Loops, three bags of pasta, a kilo of rice, a box of Jaffa Cakes, one missed handover, six low-fat sausages, a jar of Nutella, a box of Powergels, no end of RideShots, calf cramp, two hours of sleep, 27 laps, and a hell of a lot of fun. It can only be Mayhem!