It turns out if you can reach the mountain before the tagger makes their way down, you stand a good chance of getting away.
Not only did Thomas Coppola glide through that first part of the first obstacle course, he actually legitimized the use of a second tagger in the final round in my eyes.
I had only just written about how the second tagger is impossible to avoid, only for Thomas to make me eat crow as he flew past “The Horse” before the tagger even knew what hit him.