Stages 3 & 4

I started this update then put in what is now the daily call to the Supercrew ...

The Leaderboard on the website has been updated with the guys in 36th position and Stage 3 has been hashed out indicating that they missed the cut-off - I can only assume that this is an error and will be fixed. Last night briefly there was a spreadsheet in the place of the Leaderboard which had the guys in 23rd place. After they dropped all of the CP's on the MTB to make the cut-off this seemed to be pretty accurate. There was only 3 CP's seperating 10th - 30th place so there's a long way to go.

It did however appear that dropping a couple of CP's in the Stage 2 Trek and getting more on the Stage 3 MTB was definitely a better strategy and disappointingly there are a couple of team our guys are faster then that are now in front. Oh well - That's racing.

I just got off the phone and it's now 1 hour to the 12am Stage 4 cut-off and Blackheart hasn't arrived ... Yet. The Supercrew weren't able to shed any light on the internet results and in fact had seen exactly what we see but can't get any answers.

Anyway, Blackheart left on the MTB after the Trek 4 hours behind the Orion and Orion had just arrived at the end of Stage 4 30 mins ago. But we don't know how many CP's they got and whether it will be possible for Blackheart to shave a couple of hours of the route to make the cut-off. Either way this one's going to be tight. I asked how many teams had been through at the end of the Stage and althoughthere have been quite a few no one know how many CP's teams have got or whether they're even short course teams from the Stage 3 cut-off.

The guys are tired but in good spirits as evidenced below. I'll call the Supercrew again in an hour for the cut-off result. Fingers crossed.