Glad I never went down on Saturday now! Didn’t get to even see the drop, but sounds like your mate took one for the team so to speak!
Enjoyed stage 1 more than in April (maybe cos we only did it once, not twice!), stage 2 was ace but considering how hard packed it normally is it was really cutting up, Stage 3 was bonkers in practice but come the race run was actually quite good. My concentration slipped a bit on Stage 3 in the Race run and I slipped offline and had to stop, pick my bike up, and get going again costing me 5sec or so, but otherwise pretty happy with my runs.
However… For some reason, out of 250 odd riders, my timing chip didn’t work properly. Wouldn’t have noticed but for a glaring error on stage 2 where it said the guy who went 20s after me’s time was 43s faster… He was certainly faster than me, he probably finished the stage 5s behind me, but NOT 23s in front!
Chris has just emailed me back rather promptly to be fair, he’s looking into it. Looks like mid pack in masters for me once again…