Poorly planned and painfully executed.- No transport organised to and from the race until three days before the race
- Not enough
- Water, underestimated this time compared to the abundance of my last 12 hour effort
- Food; no proper carbo-loading in the week before the race, no decent food brought to the race and was cranky and starving after the second lap.
- Sleep, didn't catch up lost sleep in the week preceding the race. This cause me to DNF the race because I was dangerously falling asleep during the race.
- Base level of fitness; after two years of not doing any form of regular exercise, my body just resisted to being pushed harder.
- The overgrippy 2.35" Maxxis Larsen TT rear tyre created too much irritating and sucky rolling resistance.
- Brakes untuned for riding since three years ago.
- 36:18 didn't compensate enough for my lack of fitness.
- Right Oury grip had the handlebar paint underneath broke down and rust through turning the grip into a motorcycle throttle.
I only managed 6 laps after retiring half way through the race because I was falling asleep at the handlebar; bad comparing to three years ago I rode the whole night and morning on looser gravely course and pulled off 9 laps, on the same bike with a 36:16 gearing instead of this year's 36:18 and skinnier 2.1" tyres.
Not dirty enough... only spent 9 hours on the trail.
Scruffed my saddle as I'd lost concentration for a second and washed out the front on a simple turn on my retiring lap.
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