The course itself climbed up the North side of the valley on jeep roads headed into the jungle towards the back of the valley, then came back out ona singletrack on the South side. With the rain that started falling in the back of the valley the trail became, should we say challenging? I was pulling grapefruit sized globs of mud out of my frame on one of the night laps because both wheels were too gunked up to spin. A blast with the hose after every lap was a requirement for a while until it started to dry up.