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Hours of Fun
How much fun was that? I haven't done a race like this before (the 24 hour Mont doesn't really count - it was more an endurance than sprint event) and it turned out to be tough. Maybe this was down to the course and heat? Didn't the elites manage 14 laps? Results are in and Solo male winner did 13 laps. Now wait a sec, these boys normally do 100Km in 4 hours so to do only 130Km in 8 must say something about the conditions!
Hard as it was, fantastic day out and loads of fun. There was pain, particularly from cramps in the thighs which normally never happens to me - although calf muscles sometimes complain. A few hard, sprint laps turned out to be a completely different kind of punishment to enduro events. I found that coming in after pushing for a lap left one exhausted, but because it's only been 10Ks, well, the exhaustion soon subsided and everything was good.
It was also very nice that we (Cupcake, Junkie and I) ended up doing 4 laps each. This was just under 3 hours riding for me, I suspect Junkie rode maybe 5-10 mins a lap faster average (mine wasn't helped by those cramps in the final lap which dragged the average time down badly) and Cupcake probably could have done so if it wasn't for his puncture. Yeah, so although I was going to the slowest Slow Joe, wasn't that much off the pace.
Anyhow, here's my lap profiles for fun...
Lap 1 - pretty pleased with this, got into nice rhythm early, bit too fast for me on the climbs really. Behind fixie crazy dude on Roller Coaster:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view....
Lap 2 - Started the timer a bit late. Nice lap, almost ran off the road twice by guy not letting past on Roller Coaster:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view....
Lap 3 - Nice, but those hills are becoming tricky and cramped a little at the end:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view....
Lap 4 - Crampy badness in the thighs on just about anything requiring a push so lots of granny gear. Had to stop and let the legs recover at one point:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/view....
Top, top, top day out eh? 
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Hey Rob,
Can you explain how each of your laps is shorter? (Except the first which we know was longer)
Craig
He was obviously taking tighter lines through the corners...
Think it went like this:
Lap 1 was from the longer start bottom of hill to official transition - 'B' line on the humps due to a traffic jam.
Lap 2 was from/to official transition but forgot to press start until couple 100m in.
Lap 3 was from/to unofficial transition top of the hill.
Lap 4 was from/to official transition.
Basically, laps 3 & 4 are the only ones I would say should be the same and they are 150m out - close enough when, as Alchemist says, you can add/lose quiet a bit with taking tighter lines. No, really you can!
just wanted to make sure there was no funny business
no just curious.