First and last capital punishment

This was my first attempt at this race and hate to say it will be my last only because they are not running it next year. What a shame it is, I did the 50km course and it was fantastic. It was also the first time I had been through stromlo and that place is a mountain bikers paradise. All that single trail and the bermed corners through luge and other trails I can't remember the name of. In fact the only thing harder than building that park would be naming all the trails.

I had a pretty good run through the course with only one stupid fall about 2kms from the finish, purely based on me thinking about finishing rather than what I was doing. Also saw one of the strangest things toward the end of the race, a bike saddle on the trail which could've been a rather uncomfortable finish for one rider!!!

Overall is was really happy with my time of 2:30 and I will be back at stromlo again to have some more fun