Cold day, some very cold gusts, clear skies, the 9.6km course bedded down & became really nice – no dust, no mud – and had a wonderful raceline that flowed really well. Riders loved the event & very few didn’t see it out the full 6hours. A lot of bikes were still clean @ the 5hour30min mark.
Entered in Men’s Pairs to fly the Goombah flag although neither of us had much motivation going into the race - with no training apart from the commute & occasionally running around the block beforehand. But once we both had a lap under us I think we realised why where there in the first place. I personally had a lot of trouble with the climbs (comparatively speaking) due to fitness issues so I resigned myself to spin out the ascents, but I really got into the descents & some techie sections where I was able to capitalise of the momentum /flow, going all elbows out & out of the saddle flicking about between the trees.
We alternated laps throughout the day, sometimes 6hrs really flies by & there isn’t much of an opportunity for someone to do a double lap without feeling that the other fella is missing out.
The result was a nice fuzzy feeling, with our team smack bang in the middle of the field.
Rain held off until 4pm (race end funny enough) when it totally dumped down & washed some villages away.
You would have to go back to November 2010 before I could remember a MTB event that wasn’t really muddy.
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