it was a good result but tinged with some frustration as my main light kept dropping off on one lap! Couldn't figure it but eventually realised my number board was vibrating against the release button!! Such bad luck as after the 4th or 5th time it wouldn't switch back on apparently because dirt had got into the smart port telling it to switch off whenever I switched it on. So I did half a lap with only a headlight all of which cost us about 5 mins and dropped us from 6th where we'd been since I did the opening lap.Mental atmosphere though a real buzz. Huge moon in a totally clear star filled night sky was quite surreal as you came out of singletrack into the open to see a huge moon sitting almost on the horizon in front of you. Tight twisty trails ducking through tightly packed trees huge with little green LED lights in places and a heavy frost turning the whole forest white at 5 am made for a surreal experience. All that water also meant a lot of heavy mist too so your lights bounce back in your face and blind you in places and make it quite hairy doing flying laps in the team race.
Great buzz anyway. Highly recommend the Thetford Winter Series coming up. If you're based in the East it's probably easier to get to than the Brass Monkey so get on down.
get your arse down there you know you want to so badly it hurts. No MTB no soul! 