In essence it is a 100 mile day of greenlaning, with 10 fairly basic "trials" sections.
To enter one of these events, you need to:-
1) Buy an ACU Trials licence - you can do this online from the ACU Website and it's £10 for the calendar year.
2) You need to be a member of an motorcycle club affiliated to the ACU - I can recommend joining Witley as it's local, costs £10 for 12 months membership and you can join online!!
The event was scheduled to start at 9am and there was to be a briefing at 8.46am and the requirement to have all bikes in the Parc Ferme by 8.45am (to avoid penalty points).
I had a great journey over and was at the starting point in a very large field just outside of Odiham by 7.40am. This gave me plenty of relaxed time to register (show your cards), get the bike unloaded, get kitted up and have a bit of breakfast from the catering van + chew the fat with competitors and marshalls.
Following the briefing 3 riders per minute were set forth on Section 1. (I was riding with Kevin and a mate who was doing his first LDT and had travelled South from Rugby!) This section involved having to travel around a marked circuit in the field at a given average speed for the full 1.4mile loop. It didn't take long for word to spread around the competitors that this task equated to completing the circuit in 4mins 30 Sec exactly. Too fast of too slow and you pick up penalty points!
Not having a stopwatch, mileometer or speedometer on my bike added to the challenge and I ended up with 3 points for completing the circuit in just over 5 mins! Oh well it's a bit of fun!
We then left the field and followed the roadbook for 65 miles. From recollection we took in 6 Sections in the morning and 4 in the afternoon.
Section 2 soon arrived and it involved riding between the flags (Blue on the left and red on the right) which crisscrossed a rutted muddy track with a few level changes. I set off cautiously and within 30 seconds I had hit the end of the section...no dabs....great.....oh no....Bo**ox I missed a gate
5 points 
More riding along fantastic green lanes and more sections thrown in....I can't remember them all, but one of them was an "engine off" section. Essentially you were given the signal to set off and paddle your bike for 5 metres before letting gravity do it's thing down a steepish hill with a blind bend. At the lowest point was a wet muddy bog, then you started to climb out the other side and the futher you went up the other side, the less penalty points you picked up!
Later on we came to a section marshalled by Sean Stubble & Dave Plumb. It involved some tight turns around trees and tree stumps and up and down a little some muddy ground, I was delighted to complete this with just 1 dab!
By about 1.30pm our group were back to the start point and strategically decided to take the "Speed Test" before lunch ( as full bellies and cold muscles would possibly affect our sporting prowess!). The speed test involved going around the same 1.4mile circuit as the morning, but this time as fast as you could. the track was nicely bermed up by now and even with my less aggressive trials tyres it was a really good laugh and I was pleased with my time (which would be used to determine a points tie breaker).
With that test out of the way it was time for a trip to the catering van for a decent egg & bacon burger bap washed down with a cup of tea and a 20 minute break.
Our finely nurtured bodies were ready for the final 35 miles and 4 remaining sections. However this afternoons sections were marshalled by a few more familiar faces from Surrey TRF (no pressure there then
)More great lanes and suddenly I spot Mr MuddyVee marshalling a Section which looked pretty tricky. Essentially follow the route (without dropping into a muddy rut) which was a little muddy and wet, which turned uphill and went left around a little tree, then a quich right before decending and through a final set of markers. Fantastic another clean for me!!
A few metres up the track another familiar face young Tricky doing the marshalling of the next section. Full of confidence following my previous success I started off well, then disaster I hadn't read the course very well and was now facing a steep uphill climb at the wrong angle and speed ...oh well...in for a penny
no good, I rolled back slightly and took an instant 5 
A few more miles of excellent lanes and we were back at the starting point. A quick sign off, a word of thanks to a few of the assembled Witley organisiers and load up and away back in time to jet wash the bike off and hot shower before dinner.
What a great day
The results are now in and big congratulations to all the Surrey TRf entrants Kev took the fewest points on 13, "Special Dave" 15, Me 16, Charlie 19, Snapper Si 22, "El Presidente" Steve T 23, Haydn 23 and Chris Avery on the mighty Serow 64 (Chris I can only presume you had some mechanical issues ....perhaps you can fill us in).
Despite all the doom and gloom about losing local lanes, we are really lucky to have all these on our doorstep.
When you next hear of an LDT event, do enter they are huge fun
. got a 5 on the next section, but starting to get the hang of things.
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