Somewhere out there..

Today was the day when experience caught up with youth. Hector took off at the start but a resurgent Paul caught up with him before Checkpoint 1 and they’ve been together all day and evening. Paul was able to find a small patch of mobile phone coverage and he sent a note to say that they were “baked” and having to fight to keep going.

It is now night time, and they are still on the course, somewhere out there.

The good news is that we have the handy tracker, which, if it's to be believed, shows they "only" have about 20 km to go..

The 580 icon denotes Paul's location. Hector's is hidden behind. The numbers show the number of runners in those locations. I don't know why the numbers don't add up...

Here are some photographs from the day:

And our athletes at one of the checkpoints:

Rick, you were asking who the Kenyan is who was running with Hector yesterday. His name is Isaac Kosgei. It seems like he's a pretty good marathon runner. Also, I looked up the British people he was with yesterday and one is a former Olympic middle distance runner. There are some very interesting people doing this race.