The extreme conditions forced the organizers to cancel the Pietra Ligure enduro race, valid as the first stage of the Superenduro circuit and as an Enduro Word series Qualifier. The snow on Melogno and the heavy rains of the night, which continued throughout the day, made the route unsafe. The civil protection doctors had immediately prevented beginners and students from starting, as the intense cold of the starting area of the first stage could have jeopardized the health of the little bikers.
We were present and we can testify that the environmental conditions were at the limit, the snow along the transfer and the cold made operations difficult. Several people were rescued on the principle of freezing. It must be said that the ground of the 1st stage was in good condition and would have allowed a normal course of the race, but the remaining tests would have become too dangerous. Those who organize an event must always be supported and during the reconnaissance on Saturday it was seen that there was a great job to better prepare the PS, which found the unanimous approval of the bikers, long techniques and with a variety of conditions and difficulties that they are the soul of this discipline, so good from the point of view of trail building.
Having said that, it should be stressed that there were gaps in the organization that contributed to this decision. If as already said the conditions were at the limit, it is true that in races of this level there must always be a plan B, which in case of rain can still allow the race to take place. It is necessary to monitor the tracks well and evaluate how they react over time even to adversity. A few days of rain were enough to lead to the cancellation of the PS3 from Saturday. The stage 4 had already been reduced in the morning because the finish in the town was considered too dangerous and the conditions of the Saturday of the stage 2 had already led many bikers to have doubts about its normal practicability in case of rain. The absence of staff from the organization on Melogno, where a time control was foreseen, was a situation to be avoided, we bikers were unloaded from the shuttles a few hundred meters below, we pedaled first in the rain and then in the middle of a snowfall. winter for about ten minutes and then having to wait inside the tunnels of the fort without having clear when to leave and what the conditions were at the start of the SS, a feeling of abandonment that given the weather conditions it would have been better to avoid. Even at the start of PS 1 it was not possible to have information on the evolution of the race, thus leaving the bikers a bit at the mercy of events.
the Bikers tried to warm up waiting for information from the race direction 
The snowfall was an exceptional event for the period, but even 'only' in rainy conditions the situation would have changed little. Pietra Ligure is located by the sea, but the first two stages started from more than 1000 meters above sea level, therefore in the mountains, where the weather has different dynamics.
The new regulations
But beyond the misadventures of Sunday, the stage of Pietra Ligure was also the first race where Superenduro would have tested the new regulation on testing. Personally I agree with the choice and I believe that from a competitive point of view it is the way to follow to connote the discipline not as a sort of long dh but as a race with its dynamics, something that has already happened abroad but that in Italy was slow to happen. The climate in the group was positive and most of the bikers interviewed said they were in favor of the change of regulation. So the first judgment on this novelty is positive. Over time there will be some extra-competitive aspects on which to compare in order to give a more complete judgment, but the road seems to be the right one.
