I thought it was pretty much shit last year tbh. Not just the poor stages but the lack of organisation, the venue in general… And kind of capped off with them really not seeming to give a shit. I wasn’t just disappointed, I was raging, and I didn’t even get the worst of it- if i’d been sent off round the sportive route like some folks I’d have probably done murder 😆
There were some redeeming features, some of the offpiste bits build in the trail centre were actually really bloody good,. And you could put on a really nice local/fun enduro there, muckmedden style. But bottom line is you can’t just put a national level race on anywhere, and you can’t just half ass it and hope nobody notices.
I feel a bit bad slagging it so hard tbh, I’ve had a lot of good times with SES and No Fuss but this one was bollocks. If they’d got the organisation right and not pissed about with things like adding a crappy stage purely to make the race end at the trailcentre cafe, which left you with a long (unsignposted!) tarmac slog back to town, that’d have made it merely disappointing.