Managed to pre-ride the first 5 and last 5 minutes of the course, which showed me that if you didn't reach the rock garden first you were stuffed.
Hard out the gate with only one other rider ahead of me, he crashed going up an easy climb and I took the lead. I was first to the rock garden, sailed straight through with no problems, but I heard the rider behind me pop a tire or something which caused a loud bang. He went down and everyone else followed, it must have looked like dominos, hopefully no injuries.
I had a 100 yard lead and never looked back for my first win.
Some initial concerns when they posted the results and had me 2nd, but they'd just messed up transposing from the timing sheet to the results sheet so easily fixed.
Edit: Super stoked for managing to get a complete set of medals in my first season, a 1st, 2nd and 3rd.