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we are the men's the elite men's race which is about 40 kilometers old now and

about 60 kilometers, sorry 24 kilometers shorter than it should have been.

Yeah, which means we're 225 kilometers to go and unfortunately they have cut out one of the

most interesting bits of this running but that was I think

it was unavoidable I just driving in myself now from Grantley Hall it was

literally the even big really reasonably main roads have huge

pools of water on them as we now as we're watching you're just seeing cars just

ripping through these huge pools so it is the weather couldn't be worse yeah it's funny

when race organizers take decisions like the one that was taken very early this

morning obviously you're scheduled to be a very early start anyway 840 was the

original scheduled start time and from what I understand

the local organizing committee had people at 3 o'clock in the morning at the foot of the

butter tubs climb assessing weather conditions because it rains so heavily overnight.

So they knew it was coming and they acted very swiftly, but sometimes when you get that information

you doubt it, don't you think, oh come on it can't be that bad.

Turns out it really was. And the standing water, you know, it's probably about a

meter deep at the foot of the buttered-ups climb. No way you could pump it off the

race. It's continuing to rain all day, an absolute no-brainer. So that's not to say that it's not a brutal race even without those

two climbs that have been taken out and as we're watching finally a group seems to

have established itself it's got primos Roglage in it. It's got

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