Savage course, very well marked and we also had the reassurance of the GPS maps which meant you were never slowing down to work out the route. Thankfully they used a lot more of the official trails than last year race so it wasn’t a slog. My arms we hanging off me towards the end the sheer amount of singletrack. They even built new trails to get around the puddles. Organisation was spot on, I can’t praise it enough.
As for my race I went for the slow and steady approach:-) Well I didn’t go bonkers at the start anyways. I ended up with a small lead over Mark McGauley and the English guy Anthony White. White got away after a while working with Ray who dropped back from the lead group. In the end Ray blew again an I passed him in on his back in a ditch:-) He caught back up and it was a sprint finish to the line, how cool was that.
