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Wait. Those look like clipless BMX race shoes?!
Then blames shimano for them falling apart?
My mind boggles.
Reckon a pair of SRS Dominators would make it through without a scratch.
(on further googling, apparently they are weight weenie XC race / cyclocross shoes, which strikes me as a sub optimal choice for this event).
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Jay Petervary looks to have this somewhat under control as his lead is now out to 100km - which in this terrain is equivalent to a lot more on road. However there is a picture showing his shoes are already fucked, which might be an issue as lots more walking to come.
FWIW when I thought about riding it I was intending to use flat pedals and Five-Tens. Probably the right call (although my hands would no doubt have been regretting the canti brakes!).
A few more scratched yesterday as they were out of time at CP1. Franziske Kuehne posted that they were telling them to take a road short cut towards Naryn rather than bother with the loop out to CP2. Sensible in that it keeps the field together and stops people being out in the wilds for weeks on end, but puts a bit more pressure on supplies for the mid-pack if they get leapfrogged by the back of the field.
58 still in it, 35 now scratched. Different approach from TCR in that they automatically declare those who miss a CP cut-off as having scratched. Scratch rate should go down as some weren't able to start (eg Bjorn) and the slowest have been cut off by CP1 closing, but it wouldn't be surprising if more than half scratch by the end.