I was at the Lynch event this past weekend too. I went on the morning run. It was much better than it was last year. Last year it had rained the 3 days leading up to the event and the mud was horrible. It took over 2 hours to get through 1/4 of the trails. This year the entire run took almost 2 hours.
Yeah, a lot of people had trouble with "Highside Hill". The problems was that you went through a mud pit then right up a very steep hill. You had to just gun it.
It was a great time. I got a couple pics of the twist ditch at the end. This is not me in the pic.
Sorry, the pic is from a cell phone.