• As widely predicted, Abdullah's on the classic route.

    He's on the last big pass, can't be more than thirty miles or so before he's on to the downhills and the flat.

    About 230 miles on the nearest chaser, Keith Morical (also doing the classic route, the only other rider who's passed the point where the routes diverge).

    Lea Meszarosova is still the leading woman, about 470 miles behind Abdullah.

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