President Simon was the only Fortian at the Event and managed to sneak away with a 30sec  course PB. His race report is below

Well after a very long week I was looking forward to heading down to Numinbah for what is one of my favourite trail races.

On Saturday the day before I ended up spending most of the day top soiling the lawn so that wasn't an ideal  preparation so on the first hill I found I had no power going up the hill so I soon gave away any ideas about a PB attempt so I just changed my plan and ran to feel.

After getting up the first hill and then dropping down into the valley I was cruising along nicely looking forward to the creek crossings which ended up being dry, didn't even get my feet wet this time :(  managed to cruise along the back section well keeping the body in check.

Around the corner and then into the whopper of the hill, never going to run that one. Got to the top and realised that my PB time was a chance so decided to knock up the effort for the downhill and passed loads of people.

On to the final single trail and past another person who pulled over to let me past and I was hurdling rocks and large sticks and then I was through the final drain tunnels and up for a sprint finish.

Ended up with 1:17:38, 29th in my category and 30sec course PB and 1 whole minute faster than last year. Happy with that. Still got some work to do if I'm going to be able to compete with the guy who won it in 50:51 though.

​Numinbah I will be back in 2020!