So...............all agreed, the best course any of us have raced with well balanced fierce short climbs, blisteringly fast thru the tree's singletrack and nicely techi rooty sections

8 mile circuit so laps were just the right length for us washed out middle aged pissheads.

George and Mike finishing 33/69 and Paul and myself 35/69 only 1min 46 secs difference I hasten to add!!!! That'll teach me.....bigging up my team and dissing Georges. However looking at the times its not so bad

Simon 44.16 43.07 44.58 47.28
Paul 48.06 50.54 54.59
George 45.55 44.33 44.38 52.03
MikeCyc47.05 47.21 50.25

However Antony (typically) put our little exertions to shame in the SOLO Vets categoryfinishing 9th/29 Good effort
42.00 41.41 42.41 44.30 47.28 50.07 49.05

Kiwi Mike was also in attendance but seeing as he's nearly crippled and shouldn't be riding at all he just did a couple of "practice laps"
41.57 45.06 3.00!!!!!!! (im guessing he never finished the last lap?)

Tony Berlin was also there in a pairs team finishing arround 25-26th I think, altho not sure of his team name Ebony and Ivory maybe?

So all in all a good crew, fantastic weather and trail conditiions and a really nice vibe at the event, so much so that a couple of the "wives" were in attendance and mentioned that they'd like come to support us at another event, little do they know, its usually pissing with rain, blowing a hooly and in the dead of night at Cocks races.

Simon (Bullet)