Behind the scenes on the importance of teamwork and understanding each others motivations Looking back it is easy to see where you make errors. I had a major melt-down and rant at myself, at Glenn and at the bike (which ended up against a fence). There are few people that have seen me in this mode and all I can say is it is not pretty -- I have a reasonably cutting whip in my hands when I unleash. All photos courtesy of sportzpics.net I was feeling really pissed that he had left me on Monday and had gone ahead to far on Tuesday when I had my second mechanical -- it added at least 45 minutes on top of the repair time. The problems were fundamentally communication. This shows 25% of the village. Photo courtesy of sportzpics.net All during the build-up to the race I had stressed that I was doing this for the experience and the adventure. I did not tell Glenn that within this context I wanted to finish the race. Therefore when he left me and was told that I would get picked up he did not know that I would not accept this fate and was determined to do everything I could to finish -- my bad. Photo courtesy of sportzpics.net On Day 2 he got ahead and I think this was largely experience. It is really difficult when you are in a pack to ensure you are near the rider behind you. In fact