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Good fun out at Lithgow for the first round of the Single Track Mind series.
Teamed up with a mate in the Pairs Category and apart from a rear shock failure on my 2nd lap which slowed me up by about 5 mins it was pretty smooth sailing the whole day. Big thankyou to Lifecycles who fixed up the shock enough to get me through the day.
Track was fun, not congested at all and everyone was behaving themselves with passing/being passed.
Ended up with 14 laps (7 each) for a total of 140km.
12th in our category which wa a good effort considering most of the teams above us were sponsored riders.

Had a good day at the Three Ring Circus.
Lots of people there and made the first 10km like Parramatta Rd Morning Peak Hour.
Hard to get into a good rythm till everyone spread out a bit. I started way down in the pack so had to pass alot of people who "thought" they were fast and were up in the front groups.
Nice mix of firetrail and single track, although more single track would have been nice.
Felt fairly good and finished in a reasonable time. Did not eat anything and only had maybe 300-400ml of water, probably should of had more but i didnt feel that i needed it.

The Highland Fling is over for another year.
Was lucky enough to stay in nice warm bed in bundanoon only 4-5km from the start, would of been super cold in a tent.

My race report sounds basically the same as Robs. Race started off well with no issues. Got into a groove and linked on to a train of people going at a reasonable speed. Cleared the first stage in 1.30 ish, thought all was going well, got into the next stage, still going a good speed, then at around the 40-45km mark I lost all energy, had nothing in the tank, was very strange as went from great speed powering up everything to having absolutely nothing. stopped and had a bite to eat, some gu, drink etc. Didn't really help much. stayed there a bit longer.