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My shoes drying out earlier;
Both me and the bike were similarly mud encrusted but I was lapped (for the second time) by Dan Duguid just before the finish line and there was only one person in the hose pipe queue so the bike got rinsed very quickly.
My front mech was dropping the chain every time I shifted down to the small chainring so I did most of the race in the big, well 46 tooth actually, ring. It was fine going downhill, uphill, not so good. My cross bike is a tank. Tanks are not suited to muddy uphill slopes.