We set up at the far end of the paddock with the Yeti easy-up which dwarfed all the fishing brollies and makeshift awning to keep kit dry; the bloke next to us was well chuffed that he was going to get some free shelter just in case the forecast wasn’t right and it rained before 4pm.

Christian drew the short straw for the run (thank god) and finished it in a very respectable time and way faster than I would have.

Our plan was to do double laps and we’d already been joking around about who would get the fastest Yeti lap and with Christians second lap coming in at a blistering 0:25:21 I was starting to worry he’d already done it !! As the battle raged on I slipped into the lead of the times battle but amazingly when we checked the time after the event we’d both clocked a 0:24:57 so it was a tie.

For those of you who’ve ridden the course as part of the Enduro Six or SITS the organisers have ploughed a lot of money into making the course more resilient to the elements, they’ve dug out and hard cored the trails through blue bell woods and a couple of other places. Personally I don’t think much thought has been put into building the corners on these sections but as the race carried on natural berms started to appear and track just got faster and faster so be the end it rode well.

All in all it was a cracking race, we had some good banter with our fellow Yeti riders on the trail and getting 3^rd place was the icing on the cake.

Many thanks to Matt

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