swiss mud bath, i mean cup

ok so firstly... heatwave, what heatwave? its done nothing but rain since i got here... its still at it, oh wait no its just overcast now...i asked one of the swiss guys what tires i should use and he smilled and we went to his basement... he pulled out some mean looking (check out shwalbe black shark mud tires i think) skinny ass soft mud tires and some latex tubes and patted me on the back...well it was touch and go on saturday with the weather forecast being sunny for the race, so i pre rode the course on my normal race tires and it was ok, bit slippery in places but ok... but when the heavens opened one more time on sat nite i went down to the basement and started changing tires, damn those things were skinny...oh the course... well now... i reckon there were about 5 or 6 sections that would have scared the crap out of almost everyone at nationals in SA, how do u say chicken run in swiss? well there werent any... wicked... sunny my ass... all it did was rain on sunday, the course was an absolute mud bath... the start was two laps of a grassy field section, i knew right away that the tires were right, i was cornering like i was on rails while others where sliding everywhere with feet out... started right at the back and passed quite a few people (prob about 80 ppl on the start) by the 1st single track...raced hard but very soon i was getting chainsuck, most ppl were running up the steep stuff anyway, but by lap 4 my brakes were gone and it was getting a little dangerous, soon i decided to save myself the pain and just stop... most of the pros were already in the showers anyway, i reckon less than half the field finished and my buddy old julien absolom (who will now be know as his royal fastness) had lapped all the way up to 15th place or so...ag it was a cool experience, i had my name on my number board and people were shouting it all over the course, it was wicked... ill be back for sure...