First lap at 24hr summer solstice. Not all our riders will do night, so I started at 8:40 or so, with lights on by 9 in the forest. Small technical where my handlebars went free-range in the singletrack, otherwise handled the dry dusty conditions OK.
Cycling warm up/down 20:00 [1]
Hard to warm up then wait 30 minutes at the start in cool conditions. (My teammate broke a derailleur)
Did a pre-ride of the 24hr course in Albion with Bash.
It's dry and dusty. I got over-exuberant on a fast loose turn and slid out on my butt, giving my knee a good thump and Bash a good scare.
Course is flatter than usual, and my riding time on the actual course was just over an hour.
Now this was cool! A friend of ours is in town and we traded 'bents. He has a Greenspeed Trike, which is so recumbent my bike towers above it. The thing handles like an F1 racer, zipping from side to side. It's so low it would be death to ride on roads, and the wheels are tiny so it needs pretty smooth pavement, but the thing was a blast to ride on a paved bike path!