Seemed to. My first Elite, too, but at least I'd done a few LSs - although you wouldn't have thought so from our Day 1 CP1 debacle. We had the slowest split for that by a big margin .
How come? I checked the route gadget and your point 1 seems straightforward. I assume you were warming up slowly. By the way, I tried Morgan/Powell's route and it looks like a child's scribble, it must be a joke
Yiannis