MTBO 36:13 [3] 7.25 km (5:00 / km) +150m 4:32 / km
MTBO Model - Castegnero-Nanto, Italy.
Boy was this hot! 38 degrees ish...I forgot what hot in Europe can be!
Planned to go out for 45mins to an hour however I got 1/3rd of the way up the 200m of climb to my second control (after the 80-100m of climb to get to the first) and decided it would be detrimental to the race tomorrow if I got all of the way up to the second control. This limited me to 7 out of the 12 controls so got them all (not in a logical order as had planned to get a few on top of the hill) and this is how long that took.
Didn't feel very far so glad to see it was at least more that 5km...Effort was probably 2 but heat made everything seem harder!