MTBO race 1:13:00 [4] 18.2 km (4:01 / km) +250m 3:45 / km
First Newcastle MTBO for summer. Wasn't feeling in race mode and fluffed around for an hour before starting. More motivated once started but didn't put in 110% at any point. Happy with navigation for first hour, got a bit sloppy on route choice and navigation towards the end and probably cost time that I could have used to get a couple of extra points. Think I was 4th behind steveo, Fergus and Andrew H. Would have been good to be equal or in front of Andrew but that would have required full effort and less mistakes at the end.
Tracks were far drier than I had expected after the 20+ mm of rain.