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RooA 12 Jan 2:10pm, 12 Jan 2025 3,041 posts	0 RooA Pit=out
flyingfinn 12 Jan 2:29pm, 12 Jan 2025 3,759 posts	0 flyingfinn RooA wrote:The guys leading the South both dropped pit at the same point and one of their dots was set to "hidden"by the time I was looking. The other dot went post-haste to Settle and stopped in the area of a hospital. I saw that Roo and then realised it is also the area of Giggleswick School which is where Rupert teaches. So I'm hoping the explanation is that having retired they've both retreated to Rupert's house and he remembered to hide his tracker. Also the hospital doesn't look like the sort of facility you would be taken that far to if you were an A&E case 🤞
flyingfinn 12 Jan 2:44pm, 12 Jan 2025 3,760 posts	0 flyingfinn flanker wrote: See the leading two guys in the South have both pulled out. Another case of pushing each other too hard too early? Generally looking at the number of retirements, and how far they hadn't got, it feels like a number of participants don't have the experience required for the event. I know it's been hard going under foot, but that's not exactly unexpected, and the actual weather hasn't been too bad. Absolutely on both points Flanker. And the first one is on repeat in the main race. On the second one the lack of progress in the first few hours by the back markers on what must now be a well trodden path shows that they wouldn't have a prayer of getting to KT if it was tarmac and flat. But hey the organisers have their cash and know there is a percentage that don't require anything beyond Hebden. So why would they turn the entries down 😉
jennywren 12 Jan 3:10pm, 12 Jan 2025 17,965 posts	0 jennywren Just seen a video taken by a friend showing the leading men coming through Windy Hill. Lots of blokes with them with no numbers visible and no kit, presumably hangers on? Is that allowed or does it put the competitors at risk of penalties of some sort?
RooA 12 Jan 3:37pm, 12 Jan 2025 3,042 posts	0 RooA flyingfinn wrote:RooA wrote:The guys leading the South both dropped pit at the same point and one of their dots was set to "hidden"by the time I was looking. The other dot went post-haste to Settle and stopped in the area of a hospital. I saw that Roo and then realised it is also the area of Giggleswick School which is where Rupert teaches. So I'm hoping the explanation is that having retired they've both retreated to Rupert's house and he remembered to hide his tracker. Also the hospital doesn't look like the sort of facility you would be taken that far to if you were an A&E case 🤞 That would be a much nicer explanation! I hope it's just that.
Derby Tup 12 Jan 5:17pm, 12 Jan 2025 70,089 posts	0 Derby Tup Not many folks where we were
Derby Tup 12 Jan 5:20pm, 12 Jan 2025 70,090 posts	0 Derby Tup Keighley reservoir - about a mile from Old Bess on the Way
cackleberry 12 Jan 7:19pm, 12 Jan 2025 4,508 posts	0 cackleberry Oof that looks bleak.
RooA 12 Jan 7:23pm, 12 Jan 2025 3,043 posts	0 RooA Yesterday the lad who has just won the South was chatting to the camera saying he couldn't believe how close he was to the leaders, and now he's gone and won it. I love shit like that. 😆
Northern Exile 12 Jan 7:31pm, 12 Jan 2025 10,752 posts	0 Northern Exile FF - spot on, the hospital isn't an AE-type place, if you need that service you have to go to a place that I happen to know you're [painfully] acquainted with. Just heard through the grapevine that Lizzie [Rupert's wife] bobbed over to meet him, presumably to collect him.

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