I left about 10am as it’s my daughter’s birthday (oops, top bit of scheduling that). But I was pretty well done then, could have ridden some more, but it was pretty slippy and the Bacon sarnies were calling. Another member of our team did 2 laps during the deluge and came back laughing and very, very muddy.
Course held up well I thought. But it was greasy and you had to treat it with some respect. Had a couple of good early laps, then got very wet mid afternoon, night lap was comedic, went to bed and got out before the big rains started again.
Big tent was good, great food, ace bar, decent bands and a good laugh talking to other riders. Seemed to be lots of more casual riders this year, hope the conditions didn’t put them off, they seemed to be having fun.
Agree it was quite a low key vibe, but weather probably didn’t help. Whatever, the best thing about CLIC is it raises money for a fantastic charity and I reckon I suffered enough for my sponsorship!
I’ll do some pics when I’ve finished eating Birthday cake.
Oh I just cleaned my bike. Guess what, it was raining 😉