• Neil Phillips taking the same route up the parcour as Kristof, does that mean it has been changed or sanctioned?

  • Presumably yes. It's longer and hillier than the official parcours as shown on track leaders too :-)

    I estimate that skinny is approximately 65km from CP4 (assuming he follows Kristof's route).

    Rider number #56 Hansi Nyfeler appears to have two choices...
    (a) he looks at his tracker and sees the Neil and @CarlosBI route. He's only a few km outside of Plana and if he reroutes there and heads up the M20 to Gacko then he is only 60km from CP4
    (b) He follows the Peter Sandholt route which will be c.120km.

    If #56 follows plan A then I'd say that he and skinny should arrive at CP4 together. If he follows plan B then skinny is already in 5th place.

    Looking at Skinny's sleep pattern (post illness) it looks like he's due another nap soon. Neither Sandlot not Nyfeler appear to have a discernible sleep strategy and neither seem to have had a substantive stop for days.

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