Some good and some bad news, depending on who you are.

If last year you were making up all your time on the flat out fire road sections, this years course is going to put a spanner firmly in your works.

Tech is the watch word of this years course. Gone are the massive sections of fire road and family route and in is a 99% singletrack course.

Made up of sections of last years course and the 2007 course as well as some of the new Kitchener trail, its a far more demanding skillful course.

So those of you that have been out grinding in the miles, best get practicing on that muddy gloopy singletrack.