[Tracking] The Spine Race

sconhome

Fancy a bit of dot watching?
http://spine.opentracking.co.uk/race/

Keep an eye out for number 91 a local lad and regular poster -https://eoinkeith.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/2015-starting-big/

Wishing him the very best of luck as he takes on running 420km in rain, wind, snow, hail, sun, sleet, etc with a 7 day window in which to complete it.

sconhome

There was a delay to the start, 2 hours later than expected due to weather. So looks like the leaders are going hell for leather.

Eoin is sticking with (or in front of) last years winner.



Judging by what pictures are coming through the conditions are rotten to say the least!!

shotgunmcos

Enduro still leading. 10 hours in. Savage

http://spine.opentracking.co.uk/leaderboard/

sconhome

Wow, don't know what happened but the leader by a long way right now is last years winner Pavel Paloncy. Enduro still holding strong in 3rd.

The weather apparently is attrocious leading to course changes:

We are planning route changes due to the continuation of severe weather. These changes to the route will take place after CP3 Middleton in Teesdale mainly to CP4 Alston. They are designed to use available lower level routes and avoid the larger fells such as Cross Fell. For further information on the weather, visit the Met Officemetoffice.gov.uk/

mloc123

Interesting race, I assume the top end of the field do not really sleep during it?

sconhome

Eoin and another guy were sleeping at one stage last night. The leader, I assume, is a robot! He's just a machine

Clearlier

The races twitter account talks about holding athletes at checkpoint 2 (Eoin) until 8am this morning and currently holding the leader at checkpoint 3. I guess this is their way of managing safety in some fairly extreme weather conditions whilst also being as fair as they can to everyone.

sconhome

So with all the stops & starts and updates to timing chips it looks like Pavel is sitll in the lead with Enduro just 42 minutes behind.



Looking at the last two stages though Enduro is moving quicker and closing the gap

mloc123

I am very confused with all the delays.

pointer28

It's confusing as hell, last time I checked he was in the lead, but 13 hours behind, made no sense.

Good to see that they seem to be putting some kind of order on it.

sconhome

Would have been mandatory stops on account of the safety aspect. There was also an issue with some of the tracking too. It's all upto date now, with all credits and changes in order.

sconhome

The two lads are still together. With 40 miles left to race there still seems to be a gap of 42 mins or so (Enduro in second place).

Again seem to be held in transition so hopefully Enduro is resting and getting ready for the 40 mile sprint finish!!

lgk

They ran together from CP4 to CP5 (60.77 km), it'll be interesting to see if they do the same for the remaining 63.65 km or if Enduro goes for the win.

They may still be reminiscing on last year's Beast of Ballyhoura, Pavel was on the winning Czech AR team.

sconhome

Enduro gone into the lead and gaining ground on Pavel. He's eating into the 42 mins!!

GOGOGOGOGOGO!!!

lgk

~8 minutes apart now.

pointer28

Where's Pavel gone to?

Not showing up on my tracker for the last while.

Tech issue? DNF?

Clearlier

pointer28 wrote: »

Where's Pavel gone to?

Not showing up on my tracker for the last while.

Tech issue? DNF?

He's showing up miles ahead on mine at the moment with Enduro having barely moved in the past hour. Hope everything is ok.

mloc123

Clearlier wrote: »

He's showing up miles ahead on mine at the moment with Enduro having barely moved in the past hour. Hope everything is ok.

Enduro's GPS has not updated since 10.30am... probably a signal issue.

lgk

mloc123 wrote: »

Enduro's GPS has not updated since 10.30am... probably a signal issue.

Pavel registered on the leaderboard as having checked in to Bryness at 11:17. No sign of Enduro yet, hopefully just a tracker issue!

sconhome

I'd say they're getting the crap weather that hit us last night. Looks like Enduro is making a call

mloc123

Enduro in now, 10 mins down.

Netwerk Errer

mloc123 wrote: »

Enduro in now, 10 mins down.

He's ahead on the tracker now. What's going on with the leaderboard? Pavel supposedly up by 5 hours overall? I'm confused!

sconhome

Netwerk Errer wrote: »

He's ahead on the tracker now. What's going on with the leaderboard? Pavel supposedly up by 5 hours overall? I'm confused!

On Facebook they say that the trackers had to be updated. With Pavel being held at CP3 they must have stopped the clock (I'd expect that) which is where Eoin 'caught' up. That time has been put back into place.

Looks like a fantastic race by the two up front with the two boys racing for the line.

kingQuez

It's addictive tracking how he's doing. Can't imagine racing in weather like this

sconhome

Well that is Enduro finished!! Awesome stuff.

Hopefully he at some point played Blind Man's Bluff with Pavel and has sent him off in the wrong direction for a few hours

mloc123

AKW wrote: »

Well that is Enduro finished!! Awesome stuff.

Hopefully he at some point played Blind Man's Bluff with Pavel and has sent him off in the wrong direction for a few hours

Unless he is lost for another 6 hours I don't know if it will make much odds.

No excuse for Enduro not to run AON tomorrow night now...

griffin100

mloc123 wrote: »

Unless he is lost for another 6 hours I don't know if it will make much odds.

No excuse for Enduro not to run AON tomorrow night now...

Speaking of the AON best of luck this weekend Mloc!!

mloc123

Great result. I don't know if Enduro was playing down his chances or not, based on his blog I wasn't expecting him to come second.

Peterx

I had presumed he went over to win. He's a competitive chap.
A great effort nonetheless.
Seemed like a great battle between two worthy lads, and the weather!

shotgunmcos

Awesome result and riveting dot watching. Well done Enduro!

Enduro

Thanks for watching all! Race report is underway now...