Slow ring circus

First race after 2 months overseas without a bike and a couple of weeks recovering from manflu when I got back, so a fair bit underdone and even more overweight than usual. Enjoyed the single track as always (although there are some narrow tree gaps for a big bloke on a big bike), but will have to go back for a clean run at the main new bit, as it was a traffic jam. Could do with a few less km's hauling my carcass up all those fire trail hills however.....
Followed a tandem through quite a bit of the sniggle on the red loop - that couple were amazing, especially the pilot's ability to get through those tree gaps on corners without wiping out his stoker!
Slower than last year and 4 positions down in category. Interesting that there was one more supermasters participant than last year, but 120 less participants overall.