Jasmijn Muller LEJOG record attempt, 7am on 5th September

She did well here ... http://my5.raceresult.com/65136/results?lang=en#0_3EF1B7

Only seconds off the womens' course record and the road was really falling apart this year.

hippy?

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I'm not that old, that's the wrong flag... oh and I didn't race. :P

You're also not a mixed two-person team, except when someone doesn't look closely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCaCAGZDrCg

Only seconds off the womens' course record

It's an odd way they do that (they only count whole laps and the finishing circuit is 4.7 miles long).

https://www.lejogrecord.co.uk/progress

#bump

Hour and a half up after 12 hours.

It says that is compared to a 'smoothed' pace. I'd like to know if tha's over the entire course or between checkpoints.
She's looking very strong, and lots of updates on the instagrams too.

Dunno , twitter report is all i know

275 and into the night she goes.

2 days 4 hours 45 is the ladies record.
Wonder if she'll stay awake for the whole thing or get some micro naps in?

Basically the record pace is not too demanding for her, as long as she can hold it together - which is no mean feat in itself.

I met a woman out riding a few weeks ago who said that she considered having a shot at the record back in the 90s. She spoke to people like Wilko, who then had the mens record, and the women's record holder at the time, before Lynne. They both told her that the riding was the easy bit, just sit on the bike at normal pace, etc. But that the hard bit was coping with the sleep dep and the pains that appear.

The women's record holder told her that when she set her record she knew she could do a lot better. So she had another go but abandoned citing injury. Apparently she wasn't injured though, but as soon as she set off, all the memories of what she had been through before came flooding back and she couldn't make herself do it.

Sorry if already been covered but who was the last attemptee at this?

Riding for 44h solid is no joke.

I did it a few times and it’s horrible.

Someone has already asked the question on Twitter, no real stops until the end.

I wonder if they got the phrasing right... I hope the damp saddle doesn't cause any issues.

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When Lynne did the tandem lejog with wilco on his old cannondale she wanted him to go faster down shap but he could not see in the dark.

She had a sleep stop at Shap. Don't recall duration though.

Packed after the fourth bridge with exhaustion is all that is said .

That's a shame. She seemed to be going well. But it's a tough one. Even more for a woman given they are looking at going through two full nights and into a third morning.

Come on old boy, this is 2018, the event is exactly the same for both Men & Women...

I assumed that meant the women's current record covers that many days/nights and not the men's?

Yes, while there's nothing in the rules that says a woman can't ride at the same speed as a man and wrap it up in 44 hours, in practice, lack of testosterone means no woman ever has; they are likely to need a bit longer. When you have been going for 44 hours, another 6 or so is not trivial!

Weather is abismal up here, really do not blame her.

Lee reporting within sight of FRB

Report from Steve A on YACF:

Just got back home from crewing.
I wasn't there at the start and joined Jasmijn just south of Bridgewater to hand up a bottle with the sleep support van in case the other two support vans lost her in traffic in bridgewater, which is a bottleneck for traffic. (We lost Wheels of Fire in Bridgewater and never caught him until just before bristol, where he lost us again and recaught him up the A38)
Jasmijn looked very good and as if she was pacing herself very well, which she was. We nearly missed feeding her because the tracker was lagging quite a lot but as it turned out, she had already picked up a bottle and had eaten er food, so just threw me the wrapper to put in a bin.
Jasmijn made very good progress and looked very strong and was more or less on schedule. But going into the night she was becoming a bit spaced out. She looked very good on the bike and rode very well but showing signs of tiredness.
Just before the 24 hours were up she stopped to change clothes etc and she was still spaced out and tired. She was also not eating or drinking to her food schedule. Not eating enough. Not a good sign that she'd get through a second night but you can never always tell and she was still well in time to get the record, even if she hadn't managed the 24 hour record. She still rode 419 miles in the 24 hours, to my knowledge (best to check that than take my word for it)
Thereafter, Jasmijn was stopping for changes of clothes more often and losing a lot of time. She was still spaced out and feeling cold, so stopped in Kendal before climbing Shap. We would have stopped a bit later but it was drizzling, not very warm and there's not really anywhere to stop on Shap so we pulled the support van into a closed petrol garage where she could change clothes sheltered from the rain under the garage roof by the pumps and have a sleep in the van.
This didn't revive her as much as I hoped it would but it was still quite early, so I hoped she'd ride steady, which was still fast enough, and start recovering before going into the second night.
We encouraged her to keep going steadily and get her eating and drinking more but wasn't having much luck. Jasmijn was still very spaced out but riding very solid and starting to recover, but not very much. The team were doubtful but hopeful and asked me what I thought.
I said that it doesn't look good. It's still possible but she needs to recover if she is going to get through another night and even then, when you struggle through the first night, it doesn't bode well for the second night, so if she does recover enough to get through another night it will be very hard.
We managed to get Jasmijn eating and drinking a bit more, which was encouraging but it was still tough going and she told us a few times that she wouldn't do it or that the end to end was over but the 1000 might still be on. I told her it was still possible and she still had a chance and to just take it steady and keep moving. But she was fighting a hard battle. After feeling l, she got hot and there were stops to change clothing etc which were eating up time. She did start to perk up a bit but was still tired and a bit spaced out.
At around Perth, I had done 2 crew shifts in the supple van and swapped to the sleep van so we could go ahead up the A9 to get some sleep in the van before doing another supply van shift, which was leapfrogging Jasmijn so we could hand up food and drink.
When I awoke in the seep van ready to my next shift, I read the message in our What's App team group, that Jasmijn had packed.
I wasn't surprised. She fought a hard battle for about 18 hours. Not physically. She always looked very good on the bike and was strong. I think it was down to not getting enough sleep in the run up to setting off and everyone on the team, as we as Jasmijn seemed to agree that it probably was a significant factor.
I was glad that when I saw her in the morning that she wasn't beating herself up about it and in good spirits. She looked very good physically and walking OK. Not hobbling around and stiff as you might expect for someone who had just ridden over 600 miles in well under 2 days.
So we had breakfast then spent all day driving back to unload helpers, observers and then sort out the 3 vanloads of bikes, clothes and other stuff.

Ta.

So many factors can mess something so big up.
Wonder what her feelings are like towards another attempt next year?