Angry doctor 100km Mogo

With expected temperatues of 30 degrees i wasnt lookin forward to slogging it out around mogo. We drive down on sat arvo for the rego and hang around catchin up with ppl for a while, its already hot enough on sat n sun is gonna be worse!
So up at 5 meet my uncle at the turn off n we r on our way. Still half asleep n not havin much time to get ready i ride to the start line where we r told there is different start groups depending on how fast u think you will do it. I decide against group 1 which is under 5:45 n go in group 2, 6 mins later. This turns out to be a good idea as me n two single speed guys break away from the pack n get the trail to ourselves for a while with no trafic.
After about 10km we catch up with the tail end of group 1, seems they over estimated themselves a bit lol. I ended up riding by myself for a while at this stage and must have passed about 30-40ppl from group one. I finally caught up to one of the single speeders at about 40km n we rode together for a while havin a chat.

I felt good comin throught the 50km mark n stopped for some fluid refills, only takin about 30 seconds, thanks chops, n i was off again. All was good untill about the 62km mark when the mother of all climbs hit me!!! It must have been at least 8km long n was just painfull, 35 degrees out on the track i found out later on, and so dusty too. I rode this hill with one other guy, both of us grinding away askin each other why the hell we were doin this??? me too stubborn to put it in granny ring so just pushin away in the middle.
Finally we reach the top n with a nice breeze its into about 5km of awesome downhill single track, bermed corners and all! Definately worth the climb (just lol) Not too many long climbs for the rest of the second 50 luckily but im still exhausted, about 5km left to go and id caught a lot of ppl that were struggling. Takin a gamble that there was no climbs left i put it in the big dog, head down, painful look on my face and start to reel in all these tired ppl. After about the 5th person im running on adrenalin only but still makin up places. I sprint the last 5oom and get 3 more places to give me 16th in open male and 36th overall. Unable to even get my helmet off or talk, chops pours water over me as im slumped over my bars, rediculously buggered but cheer up a bit when i find out i did it in 5hr21min! awesome time!!! Alot of ppl werent ready for the heat, me included, it was good to c how many actually finished the race n still had a smile on their face.
Was a great track, very challenging but very rewarding ill definately be back next yr, look out group 1!!!