Brian's blog

Well this was my first 8 hour event and I entered the pairs male (Just Cruzin) with Leopafe. Before heading up there I was thinking of getting there early Sunday morning to get in a practice lap, but the reality was we were going to do plenty of laps so why add another.

We arrived unloaded our bikes, registered and straight into the race briefing. The plan was to do two laps at a time. I headed out first with no idea what was on offer but was briefed that the track was awesome with plenty of spots to hurt yourself.

Had a great day today. Take out the stop for the helicopter which was 8 minutes and 51 seconds (for me) my time was 2 hours 37 minutes and 48 seconds. Had issues with the first 10 kays getting the heart rate to register. The hardest part for me was the walk up that enormous hill. I have never come across anything like that before.

Andy, I was actually parked next to the guy you ran over and met him on the way out. He said he hit a pot hole that caused him to crash. He also felt bad about causing you to crash and looking at the state of him he will feel much worse tomorrow.