Wrappers – some XC courses are so fast and furious that getting a gel out, taking it, and putting the wrapper away without wrapping yourself around a tree (see what I did there?) is a bit of a challenge. The Mayhem course is NOT one of those courses, so there’s no excuse really.
What happened to your guy? Saw you had a long lap 1?
Not sure if we tempted fate or not here, but there’s only one of our team who has any running form, having done a sub 3 hour London marathon this year, so he was the obvious choice for the (much shorter, so we thought) start run.
He pinched his tyre 2/3 round the first lap and in the heat of the moment thought he was more advanced around the course than he was, so decided to run it rather than put a tube in.
Suffice to say we were all waiting for him in the arena and when we saw him running, the chap waiting to take over said “Someone did tell him he could ride his bike, right?!?” You have to maintain a sense of humour doing these things! And we were actually more relieved that he wasn’t injured…
He was gutted, and knackard, but it actually didn’t impact the result at all in the end.
Was a bit odd racing you guys, yet none of us saw you once on the course, for the full 24 hours. Seemed like we were chasing ghosts! I did some sums on the times, and I think we got to within a few mins of you at some point, but that was as close as it got.
We really enjoyed the event. The best one of the three we’ve done so far…