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In a live video Q&A, James Houston described the CP4 Parcours. He rode about 400 metres of it but decided that it was simply unsafe to ride any more and so walked the equivalent of a marathon pushing his heavily laden bike. He said he was concerned about damaging his bike and about coming off, breaking a bone and being left lying there until someone passed. There was no phone signal on the parcours. The latter (and possibly the former) problem would not have been an issue for those at the pointy end of the race as other riders were on their heels and they would have been found soon. James's issue was compounded by the aftermath of heavy rain that fell just before he got there and turned much of the parcours into a deep muddy quagmire.
He also said that he would never ride the TCR again as the danger from trucks and traffic was too great. He will be riding the Pan Celtic again.