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Monrning update.
The Munoz Brothers completed the race yesterday leaving just three riders still out on the road.
The pair #228 of Mattia Biffi and Alberto Varni have just crossed the border into Greece from Macedonia. Alberto's tracker has been a little rogue over the past couple of days but now appears to be recharged and transmitting.
Min rested in Thessonloniki overnight.
She is some way ahead of the others, quite how far is hard to tell as they are coming at it from different angles. That said, the pair appear to riding for longer each day and covering more miles. It could be very close by the end.
This would be rather nice. Personally, I would like Min to have the undisputed accolade of lanterne rouge and to have someone to welcome her at the end.
They are now on Day 25. They have been on the road three times as long as the winner. The mental resolve required to get one's aching body up each morning, pull on tired and soiled kit, stuff feet into worn shoes and pull a helment, still damp with sweat from the previous day onto one's head and then feel one's joints and muscles rebel as the first few pedal strokes strain against an unwilling body. And then to ride on in the heat, looking for food and water, struggling to navigate, checking everything is properly charged, watching for traffic and dogs and finally looking for somewhere to sleep. The simple determination, despite all adversity, to finish the task. Wow. Just wow.