South-east MTB club and race promoting machine Gorrick MBC has got huge great pannierloads of events coming up in 2004. You’ll have to move fast to catch the most imminent – the last Trailtrax orienteering event of the winter is this very weekend (25 January). Start is at the Windmill Inn, Four Marks, Hants, near Alton from 9am. Last event of the winter? Does that mean it’s nearly spring? Splendid. Choose from three hour or quick’n’dirty 90 minute options – details and entry form at www.gorrick.com.

Then in just two week’s time the Exodus Spring XC Series 2004 kicks off. ROund 1 is at Yateley Heath Wood, Hants on 1 February. The continued support of Exodus means that once again there are holidays up for grabs as prizes, some of them drawn at random so you don’t even need to ride fast… A number of local shops are also stumping up prizes, so get yourself down there. Or up, depending on where you start from.

Subsequent rounds are at Heath Warren Wood on 22 February, Crowthorne Wood on 14 March, Black Wood, Micheldever on 4 April and a final at Surrey Hill on 9 May. Get genned up straight from the horse’s mouth at www.gorrick.com.

Got any legs left? Gorrick is also running the Gill 100 Enduro Challenge (25 April, Swinley Forest) involving as many laps around a 10 mile course as you can possibly manage. The event is in support of the Chiltern Air Ambulance, so it’s all in a worthy cause. You can download an entry form here.

And as if that’s not enough to keep the Gorrick guys busy, they’re also involved in London’s 2012 Olympic bid – regular Gorrick venue Swinley Forest is the chosen MTB venue. So go and race on it and see what the world’s best might be up against…

As ever, you can find out more about all things Gorrick from the club’s Interweb Information-O-Matic.