Above, the top mens team coming in strong...Below, extract from here (for memory sake)....
......We just tried to have some fun and just to keep going.
Not easy having fun from 3-5pm when you're baking in the oven while riding on sand, pushing up gravel hills and riding through mud that sticks to everything!
We can only remember the first lap and the last few... the rest in between, we were just riding with blank minds....
We stopped after lap 2 to change Ling's shoes and to platform pedals. Too much mud on the cleats, plus she was riding with a 1/2 healed sprained ankle.
Stopped once more to top up water, and the last stop was to put on lights at 5.30pm. Ling came back to life after it got cooler.
The last 4 laps were without stopping.... almost at the brink of cramping!
Riding at night was something else... even though we knew the trail well by then, it looked very different at night, and you cannot see the bottom of the steeper slopes. Scary stuff.
Actually, this torture was exactly what Ian Ng whould have loved to have seen. He played a big part in getting through to the authorities on this trail. Now that he's in the sweet Holy Trail in the sky, his team @ Basecamp/SART has carried on to organise this event.
Ian Ng, this is for you!
Ming
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