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What a good event. Wonderful location.
It's great that the state forests are a place that trail building can occur and we can reap the benefits. All credit to the organisers and locals for the quality and conditions of the trails.

3:23:00 and 69 overall. 23 in Vets out of 103. Very pleased indeed.

Results are up, I got 2.59.18 for the irate intern. I'm stoked! 26th place and 6th in my class (veterans). I think it must be that hill's fest Rob and Gazza6 took us on

Hey guys, it's Tony .... 7:28 what a race! Can't believe I finished, couldn't tear off the wrapper from muesli bar on 80th km:) That's how much I had it!

Wow and holy crap what a hard race.

Well this was my first 100km race and boy did I pick a hard one to do! I started at the back of the pack as I had no expectations of any heroics. We quickly hit the usual traffic jam as we entered the first single track. This eased up a bit though as we went into the next firetrail section and things started to spread out. Things went pretty much as normal in the first 50km. I was pretty much by myself for most of it. I only saw Loz when he broke down and again at the 30km water stop when he caught up. I saw Rob, Tien and Leo at the water stop too but they left shortly after I got there.

Congrats to all full Angry Doctors.

Lozza, great work. All that hill training must have paid off.
Rob, better luck next time.

I did the 50km - too many hills for my liking.
Sounds like the better half of the course is definately in the second 50kms
Time of 3:16 (23rd in my category). A couple of chain suck mals, major back spasms & the dreaded IBT knee.

It was very nice seeing so many nobmobbers out on the trail & having a quick chat. Damien was the first to come past on his single speed, then Deano caught up to me before we traded places off & on all day, next I caught up to Critty who didn't look very well, full credit to him for finishing. At the 50k stop I had a quick chat to Ladytoast before heading off. In the last 50 Deano & I traded position a couple more times until I caught Mick with about 3km to go. Completing a ride like this is so much easier with familiar faces about, well done to all.

Well - maybe the first 50Km was?

How hard was that course though? But how much fun too? Think therein lies the problem. Take a look at the MB details (see below) and it's obvious I was having too much fun in the first 50. In fact, I knew this only an hour into the race. As I may have said - not sure how accurate the Edge calorie counter is, but I reckon when it says I'm burning 5-600/hour that's sustainable (although I averaged 830/hour on Dirtworks this year) and when I do 900+ that's just not a good idea. After the first hour yesterday it said 1100 calories and something silly like only just over 10Km. Should have known then to chill out, but thought I was keeping the HR low enough that it didn't matter. Put the high number down to the Edge's slightly dodgy calculation and the amount of altitude that we were doing - oh dear!

7:23

Happy with that for my 2nd ever race and first ever 100.

Had a stupid mechanical at 10km with the jockey wheel completely seizing up. I had to take the thing off 3 times and put me firmly in last place at the back with the fatties.. Wasn't quite shifting correctly but luckily managed to do some mid ride chain tensioning and amazingly enough got it shifting relatively well.

7.12 feeling very happy with that considering the complete lack of training well if im true full none really. Plus the large amount of pain killers to forget about the aback pain worked a treat well for about 4hrs until I ran out .

If your not out there doing it,
Someone else is