The recon on Saturday proved to be a epic on its own with a trail system where every low lying spot had accumulated water, thus becoming mud after the usual crowds riding there. I even managed to get a cut tyre on the recon from some lovely blue stone chips. The night prior to the race we had around 6mm of rain....great for the dry garden but not good on a already water logged MTB trail system.
Race day on Sunday saw us greeted by overcast and rain threating skies. Got out to the course and thanks to a wicked car park permit...lucky number 69...(a meal for two some would say)...we got into setting up.
Camp Onespeed Only
Got the tent up and ready and awaited for Shaney to arrive on the mo-ped (he arrived looking like a michelin man in his mo-ped shit). T and I volunteered him for first laps as we did all the set up. Shaney did us proud with a couple of good laps and came back filthy from the single track...or should I say swamp tracks.
hey Shano... styln as always, Assos hides mud...not!
T headed out for a couple of laps post Shano's return and was keen to get himself a photo or two by yours truely, even slowing down to pose. He pulled out a couple of good laps to place us well.
Then it was my turn to hit the course. By the time I had headed out it had dried somewhat and the mud had become the consistancy of cookie doe. On the climbs it was like riding through wet sponge....sloooooow was the name for the day. I was hanging for the fire trail stuff so I could get some speed up. I didnt have much in the tank so was forced to run some of the up hills as I couldnt get some grip at times. Forget heading in a straight line it was where ever the bike wanted to go. Decents were fun with lots of drifting through the corners and the climbing greasy.
Team Onespeed Only had a ball of a day and ended up a nice 6th on the Teams of 3's which we were all happy with.
A large thanks goes out to the FGP team for a fantastic event and look forward to the next round in August.
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