I arrived by train and bike today, and the family stayed at home to entertain the outlaws.
I was entered to ride the non-championship race, with a ragtag team of whoever turned up, so signed on and headed over to the course to get a couple of laps in before the actual team championship race. Was chatting to various people whilst the Youths finished their race when my mate Dan asked if I had a team. Their third counting rider had dropped out so I was quickly recruited to ride as a ringer for Team Corridori, dashed back to the Race HQ to sign on and get my chip reregistered, then back to change tyres to the full on mud ones, and had the second shortest warm up ever, then lined up in the third group, behind Andy Taylor, without having ridden more than the first 300 metres of the course.
The start was mayhem, with riders bouncing off each other before hitting the off camber section right after the finish line. Everyone bar the first twenty riders was off and running, then it was into the woods for more mayhem. Thankfully it settled down before the end of the lap, when I noticed my Garmin turn itself off as I'd forgotten to start it, so turned that back on. There were a few modifications to the course from last year, which made it even better and it was as muddy as last year, so slippery as hell all the way round and nowhere to relax, just full focus all the time. God knows where I finished, but it was great to be racing in a proper mudder again.
@andyp
I arrived by train and bike today, and the family stayed at home to entertain the outlaws.
I was entered to ride the non-championship race, with a ragtag team of whoever turned up, so signed on and headed over to the course to get a couple of laps in before the actual team championship race. Was chatting to various people whilst the Youths finished their race when my mate Dan asked if I had a team. Their third counting rider had dropped out so I was quickly recruited to ride as a ringer for Team Corridori, dashed back to the Race HQ to sign on and get my chip reregistered, then back to change tyres to the full on mud ones, and had the second shortest warm up ever, then lined up in the third group, behind Andy Taylor, without having ridden more than the first 300 metres of the course.
The start was mayhem, with riders bouncing off each other before hitting the off camber section right after the finish line. Everyone bar the first twenty riders was off and running, then it was into the woods for more mayhem. Thankfully it settled down before the end of the lap, when I noticed my Garmin turn itself off as I'd forgotten to start it, so turned that back on. There were a few modifications to the course from last year, which made it even better and it was as muddy as last year, so slippery as hell all the way round and nowhere to relax, just full focus all the time. God knows where I finished, but it was great to be racing in a proper mudder again.