Done.
With a bit of moaning, swearing, grimacing, writhing and cursing. And that was just Russell's massage.
7h55 and 341st position.
Name | Race Time | Position | Gender Position | Age Position | Start Group | Group Position |
Me | 03:08:08 | 305/28817 | 282/22533 | 50/2210 | VA | 53/234 |
Craig | 03:08:09 | 306/28817 | 283/22533 | 41/3071 | VA | 54/234 |
The Tourist (Russell) | 03:19:16 | 810/28817 | 749/22533 | 114/3322 | VB | 151/229 |
The Greek | 03:59:32 | 5460/28817 | 4934/22533 | 813/3071 | GG | 8/526 |
Bonte | 04:17:22 | 8355/28817 | 674/5472 | 109/745 | T | 262/466 |
Yolanda | 04:17:22 | 8358/28817 | 675/5472 | 105/712 | T | 263/466 |
The Runner | 04:23:43 | 9422/28817 | 8316/22533 | 1306/3071 | PC | 9/375 |
"By my calcs\\
There were 29000 riders and 75 start groups: this simply about 385 riders per group on average
Greek started in GG (group 17) he thus started in position 6 573rd
The Runner started in PC (Group 49) in thus in position 18 946th
So to work out from the start:Greek only managed to finish in position 5483, this means he only passed 1090 riders or in other words a pathetic 17% of those in front of him. suddenly its not looking so good for the greek.
the Runner however finished in position 9462 which means he passed an incredible 9485 riders. This is an amazing 50% of the field in front of him at the start!!!!! OMF OMF, certainly and undeniably an insane effort. Further, to sustain this crazy objective the runner had to pass a rider every 1.6 seconds for the entire duration of the ride!
This, besides the realism of riding a mountain bike and not having any bunches to share some of the wind load, obviously gives the Runner a big disadvantage and we need to do some simple maths to equate the positioning.
Thus if we say that each person you pass, adds approximately 0.2 secs to your time, then we can recalc.For the greek it would add on 3.6 minutes so his actual time would be around 3:55 which even the Runner can concede is a pretty good time.
For the Runner it would add a 31.6 minutes, so the corrected actual time should be 3:52!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OMG OMF
So in the end without any obvious penalties, but taking the realisitc issues of starting at the back in account, the Runner actually won this race quite comfortably which was easily confirmed by the beer tent crowd afterwards, who noted how casually and easily the Runner was moving around and chatting, whilst the greek lay about immobile on some dirty old newspapers.
maybe next year greek."