I teamed up with Russell for 6 hours of furious racing around the Lysterfield Mtb park. With a quick application of "Carbon Look" gaffer, white electrical tape and a Black texta my old hardtail was converted into a Yeti for the race.
The course was pretty much single track out, fire road across, singletrack back. The downs were fast, the ups were fast. The fire road was long and hard. There was nowhere to rest.
It was a cold start, actually the sun didn't show till after midday making a nice finish to the race.
I was on first lap dutys (thanks Russ) and managed to get onto the lead group in the singletrack. Onto the fireroad and it was time trial ahoy.... I stayed with the Felt, Giant, Torq and All Round Champ AJ up till the last section of fire road then the change to an uphill gradient got me and i fell off the back.
Coming through the finish to hand over to Russell we were only a minute or so down, time to settle in and play the catchup game with consistent lap times.
I managed to catch Jack of Felt 1 on the fire road and passed him in the next section of singletrack bringing us into 3rd. Russell kept Scott Liston at bay on his next lap and I put a gap on Jack that they couldn't bridge.
Props to John Claxton for doing 3.5hours straight and keeping 2nd place in pro pairs. We tried but couldn't catch. And to AJ who was riding solo but for at least 4 hours was 3rd in pro pairs.
Results and Photos can be found on the Full Gas Promotions site
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