Having held our collective breath all night, Alan has just told me that the decision to restart the race was made at 7:30 am (local time).

William started running again at 9:00.

Alan tells me that the storm did uite a lot of damage and that it is still ‘Very wet and windy.’

At present we don’t know how this will affect the race in terms of times etc (e.g. whether the 8 day race will finish as planned rather than extra time being added) but we are assuming that time lost due to the storm will simply be time lost.

Obviously this is bound to reduce total distances achieved in the race and make any record attempts for set distances (e.g. 500 miles) very very hard (if not impossible) to manage.

 

More news as I have it.