I can quite honestly say I will never do that again. It's unpleasant enough having to ride at various stages through the night but this was terrible.
There was torrential rain through the night that made 70% of the course unrideable. You could barely push your bike as the wheels wouldn't go round (too much mud) and when I tried to pick my bike up not only did the mud suck it into the ground but the sheer weight of the bike was too much to carry more than a few metres at a time.
Also, I only managed around 40 minutes of sleep on Saturday night then had to drive for 5 hours on Sunday which was a terrible experience.
That said, as expected our team did pretty well. We all put in consistent fast laps and kept trying hard all the way through. Out of our category of 60 teams we came 8th and overall, out of 640 teams (including all the pro teams), we came 35th. Which is pretty good really.
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