As expected loks like major headwinds down glen afric. Liams slowed right down on what should be a fast downhill.
Will see what speed the others take down it at and that will tell if its wind or bonk.
What's the longest last day anyone's done?
24 hours 🙂
fraser MacBeath pulled a 32 hr stint from Fisherfield to finish last year I think. He looked asleep on his feet in Strathcarron at tea time, but kept plodding.
Liam Glen having his last meal before the finish at The Tomich Hotel?
Ian Barrington and Brian Singleton fighting for 12th! Gripping!
Confirmed Scratch Update: Stu Cowperthwaite is out - Achilles is toast.
Bugger!
🙁
Ow bugger. Get well soon. He found a way out ?
Can you contact Stu Greg? Could possibly help tonight if required
[quote=bedmaker ]Can you contact Stu Greg? Could possibly help tonight if required
Try calling the Tomich 🙂
Bedmaker - have emailed stu and you.
Make magic happen.
Ah yes, should have zoomed in before asking 🙂
Took a tandem ride to Cannich today. Sat on the riverbank at Struy bridge enjoying a coffee and a loaded rider pootled past.
Weird coincidence thought I, what with the HT on and all these racers passing through a couple of days ago.
Checked when I got home and it was Matt Orton, going at the sort of civilised pace I'd like to do the HTR at, taking a fortnight or thereabouts 🙂
GregMay - Member
Confirmed Scratch Update: Stu Cowperthwaite is out - Achilles is toast.
What a shame after a great effort.
Now the lead group are going to quickly knock off when knackered what the rest of us would think of as an epic when fresh.
I've become addicted to watching the dots as well...properly impressive stuff...
I realised when dot watching that not everyone's tracker is updating at the same time so it's quite hard to get a closer picture of position.
Yes, if two people are riding close together you tend to get the effect of them leap-frogging each other. Impossible to tell who is actually in front.
molgrips - Member
I realised when dot watching that not everyone's tracker is updating at the same time so it's quite hard to get a closer picture of position.
That's what makes it fun. I calculate the time differences in the updates, compare speeds and try to work out who is actually where.
I can see a late night coming up and an early morning - it is truly addictive. 🙂
If you snooze, you lose.
Happening in a nearby glen right now...
Wake up Liam!
Wake up Javier!
Wake up Lee!
New leader Phil Addyman, and Ian Fitzpatrick coming through.
So long as two riders aren't very close, say less than ten minutes riding time, then I find it's easiest to open the full history of the leading rider and find the SPOT point closest to where the other rider is and work it out from there. Not completely accurate due to the different reporting times of each riders' device and the difference in location of each SPOT point but it gives a rough indication of the gap. Doesn't work if the lead rider's had a nap in the intervening period either 😳
This is epic stuff. I got a picture from nikk this morning of a cloud inversion above Fionn Loch. Meanwhile nikk had the thousand yard stare of a multiday racer.
crikey, this is incredible to watch.
alasdairmc, can you put the inversion picture up, please?
Confirming Thomas Borst as a scratch - old knee injury
Sneaky Ian Fitz - I told him he was riding well 🙂
Wow - all changed this morning. Allez Sarpullido!!
The race is on!
It is tiring watching dots....
In the first 4 there's 2 who rode through the night and 2 who rested for a while.
First and second is rested versus unrested, and the same with 3rd and 4th.
Will that freshness make the difference?
Getting exciting now - 1 and 2 neck and neck
Come on Lee!
If Lee wins, that's it, I'm putting in my Shand order.
Dorset_Knob - Member
Come on Lee!If Lee wins, that's it, I'm putting in my Shand order.
May want to train a bit too 😉
Dorset_Knob - Member
Come on Lee!If Lee wins, that's it, I'm putting in my Shand order.
I've thought much the same, it will be a great endorsement for the bike. But then I'd need to find a way to acquire the last decade or so of focus and determination and training effort that Lee has done... 🙂
I'm knackered after sitting here watching the dots until 2 am, an hour's snooze in the chair thinking I was watching the dots, then a disturbed sleep also watching the dots (much more exciting, the dots were talking about the conditions), then waking up to follow the dots again.
So how do the riders feel? It won't be ordinary tired, that's for sure. It's just unimaginable.
Go Lee!
Edit: her dot hasn't moved in 43 mins. Problem? Hopefully just the tracker.
What was the deal with Lee taking the wrong route, was it resolved or to be resolved after the race?
Um, I hope I didn't sound like I was saying either a) Lee's, and all the others' achievements, are due to anything other than frankly incomprehensible levels of effort and will or b) that just buying a new bike would ever elevate me to anything like their league …
Just got caught up in the dot- watching while thinking about new bikes ...
Dorset_Knob - Member
Um, I hope I didn't sound like I was saying...
It's ok, you didn't. 🙂
Has there been a joint first place finish yet in the HT550? Will PA and LG join hands across the finish line and then share a bag of chips?
"What was the deal with Lee taking the wrong route, was it resolved or to be resolved after the race?"
the deal was it would be decided by alan once he has finished racing.
bigmandh - Member
What was the deal with Lee taking the wrong route, was it resolved or to be resolved after the race?
They will be resolved after the event. There were two.
whisky711 - Member
Has there been a joint first place finish yet in the HT550? Will PA and LG join hands across the finish line and then share a bag of chips?
Would you finish together after all this time?
I sure as hell wouldn't - death or glory.
liams off on his own again ......5minutes
Death or glory......just as they reach the devil's staircase...... 😯
Looks like resting may have paid off.
Not far now...
Oh, my son is walking the WHW, may be arriving in Tyndrum today I think. Going to be busy!!
Just watched the replay, did LG set off 2 hours behind the others?
If so who 'wins' first across the line, or shortest time? It's an ITT, not a 'race', but it is a mass start?
Some reasonably appropriate words over at Grit.cx
[url= http://grit.cx/column/2016/06/gregs-knowledge-drop-v2-15 ]http://grit.cx/column/2016/06/gregs-knowledge-drop-v2-15[/url]
Liam is a blue dot (group start) rather than a yellow dot (ITT) so his start time should be taken as when Howard said Go!
Liam Glen on the home straight now. Be finished within the hour at this rate!
max beans being deployed by the looks of it.
thisisnotaspoon - Member
Just watched the replay, did LG set off 2 hours behind the others?If so who 'wins' first across the line, or shortest time? It's an ITT, not a 'race', but it is a mass start?
As Tom said - blue dot = group start time. If you were late, you were late, so be it.
max beans being deployed by the looks of it.
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I'm rooting for him because he represents everyone who likes a lie in. Setting off a leisurely 2 hours after everyone else and rather than push on and do an overnighter he had a kip.
If he was racing Le Mans he'd be one of the old school who got out and put on dinner jacket and black tie for the evening laps.
thisisnotaspoon - Member
...If he was racing Le Mans he'd be one of the old school who got out and put on dinner jacket and black tie for the evening laps.
We need to make this compulsory for the 24 hour races.
Keep the riff raff out.
Oh oh, I don't have a DJ, scratch that idea. 🙂
Edit: no refresh from Lee for 44 mins. Hopefully it's the tracker.
IF and LC dots not updated for a while.
Lee has moved, but again a long delay.
Looks like the finish for Liam in a few minutes. 🙂
Bouncing DOT! We have our first finisher 🙂
Chapeau to LG!
Nice one! I can go for lunch now...
Fantastic! Late start, a snooze near the end, that's good going.
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Inspirational!
I am not worthy.
Dorset_Knob - Member
Inspirational!I am not worthy.
Don't worry, maybe you can console yourself with a Shand... 🙂
Two down - Phil is back.
Looks like the race is on for 3rd place.
Go Lee!
I'm rooting for Sarpullido for 3rd. Lee's ride is utterly awesome too, and Lee might have some of her xc speed left too. Yikes!!
Lee, Ian and Sarpullido are all together now. Race on!
Less than 3 miles to go for 3rd place.
Shame the trackers don't fire up more often near the finish, it's hard to work out the positions this close.
epicyclo - Member
Less than 3 miles to go for 3rd place.Shame the trackers don't fire up more often near the finish, it's hard to work out the positions this close.
Be happy it's not Aidan, he'd probably do his traditional SPOT death ride. Aka, ride longer than the 24hour reset and don't reset before the end.
Refresh, damn it! They must be there or almost there.
Yeah, I'm supposed to be in a meeting, but I can't go in until the dots move
? ......
Yay! GO LEE!
Hold your horses.
Beth is at the finish line - will give you the official in a few mins.
Javi bounce....
Yay!
Awesome finish by all 3. Amazing!
Joint third:
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Thanks to Beth from Wildcat for the image.
Classy
Har, that's good that is. 😀
Nice one 😀
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Brilliant finish. Sporting too.
Very nicely done
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