“As for the course it is normally designed a few weeks before as the weather plays a big part in deciding where is safe to ride up and down.”
Why though, surely rain just makes fun DH sections more interesting, not dangerous!
The thing that I thought was poor last year was the layout of the start/finish area. In years gone by its always appeared more central and involved when its been at the opposite end of the campsite to where it was last year ie it should be down by the lake. Last year it just appeared a bit out of the way, and therefore people not involved in riding didnt spend much time there.
Oh and could they get 1000 people to ride it the day before so that all the horrible grass sections are at least warn down or turned to mud.
Re the run – Your all soft 😆 mate in our team one the Friday night run round the whole course, and then did the first lap too on the Saturday… was still quicker than the team mates all race 😯