Best: Heading out on the dawn lap as the sun was just coming over the horizon

Worst: Trying to get myself out of my warm sleeping bag to go do my night lap

Whether or not it was run for profit is neither here nor there for me. It takes a lot of talent, work, imagination etc. to put on something like MM. If the organisers make a living from it then great, good on them.

I did my first MM this year as part of a 4 man team.

It was great event, well organised with a friendly family type atmosphere. The riding was a great challenge and required a lot of skill and fitness to ride the course any significant speed. It’s just a totally different type of riding to the spoon fed manufactured trail centre stuff.

In any case, If an event that size was held somewhere with miles of amazing singletrack by the end there would be miles of mangled doubletrack.

It’s not for everyone, but I’d love to do it again.