Sylv had come down with me in the van to help out and take some photos, luckily we had a weather window for the race itself which was nice for the spectators.
The course itself was nowhere near as tricky as last time, with most of the muddy technical sections through the woods cut out, this was a shame as I really enjoyed that part of the course last time.
Off we went and visibility was tricky with lots of spray coming up from the front wheel, I was struggling with traction on the first couple of laps so I let some air out the rear tyre which seemed to help alot.
Was in 5th position and coming just going into the last lap when I had my first classic cyclocross mechanical failure, the rear deraillier gave up the will to live in all that mud and exploded.
So that was that, I didn't fancy running the course for a lap just for 20th position so choose to push over the line once the leader had finished.
Hopefully my luck should begin to change next round and the gremlins will leave me alone.
would have been proud of my retro cross bike 
George lapped me there towards the end of the race, but wasn't going much faster 
