Race Idea

Once again a huge posting delay but the reason for my last Lagan Towpath flooding post was initially because I had a race idea but safety advice kind of ran away with the post so I decided to leave it for another post.

This is probably completely unworkable/unorganisable/unmanageable/uninsureable but I cant help thinking that these conditions would be great for a mountain bike race down the towpath from Lambeg to Shaws bridge.

It would probably be best run as a time trial event with competitors going at 1 minute intervals as the towpath is fairly narrow at the best of times let alone when you cant see it!

Obviously there are loads of problems with the idea not least the following:

• Obviously the biggest issue is that you cant know in advance when the towpath is going to flood. You would have to have people on a list and mail/phone/text them on the morning the race is to take place. This means people cant make themselves available in advance etc.
• I very much doubt if this would be doable as a propper event not least because of getting insurance. Even with people in life vests etc the unknown of the date/time of the event probably makes it uninsurable.
• Would people be interested?

This was just a crazy thought about an event that I know I would be up for if someone else organised it so would anyone else be up for it assuming it was possible or does anyone else have any thoughts about the viability of this?