There’s some good news and some bad news from WIlliam’s perspective.

The bad news is that realistically Didier is now too far ahead to catch. The good news is that William reached 1000km (621.37 miles) at 7days 19h 31m 43s – naturally this time is subject to offical confirmation etc.

Just to clarify, last year when William became the first person to reach 1000 km during the 8-day race in Monaco, his time for the 1000km was 7 days 20 hrs 50mins 0 secs. So – and once again, this is an unofficial time – this year’s 7days 19h 31m 43s would be almost 1 and a half hours faster.

If confirmed, this would not only be a new PB for William, it will be the new Scottish and the British M55 age group record for 1000 km

As you can imagine it’s been all go at Team Sichel (even if we are spread out a bit at present!) with me fielding phone calls from Tim Rainey and emails from Alan Young in Monaco – and the race isn’t over yet.

Having reached 1000 km William is still adding distance and will keeping doing so until the very end. Didier Sessegolo now leads by just under 13.7 miles /  22km which will surely make him uncatchable before the 8 day point.

At a little before 189hrs into the race (with 3 hours left to run) William covered 1019.72 km / 633.62 miles, which is already around 10.5 miles /  17km better than the previous course record which he set when he one the 8 day race last year.

More to come…

 

Place	Dist.	Nb tour	Nom	Equipe	Cat	Pl Cat.	Dernier passage
1	1041.408 km	768	SESSEGOLO Didier – (dos. 36)	PERFORMANCE SPORTS NUTRITION	V1M	1/884	189:06:09
2	1019.712 km	752	SICHEL William – (dos. 46)	METROPOLE FASHION TEAM	V2M	1/480	188:49:04
3	875.976 km	646	CHEVILLON Bernard – (dos. 15)	ACM	V3M	1/178	190:36:49
4	861.06 km	635	BEAUMEL Jean Claude – (dos. 43)	ACM	V3M	2/178	190:28:31
5	833.94 km	615	DERRIEN Franck – (dos. 37)	MI	SEM	1/1285	190:38:07
6	831.228 km	613	BARNETT Sarah – (dos. 38)	MI	SEF	1/1379	190:38:20
7	813.6 km	600	MIORIN Robert – (dos. 6)	ACM	V2M	2/480	190:38:48
8	758.004 km	559	JAMESON Iveagh – (dos. 24)	FONDATION SANCTA DEVOTA	V1M	2/884	190:11:43
9	741.732 km	547	FORCELLA Alain – (dos. 17)	PERFORMANCE SPORTS NUTRITION	V2M	3/480	190:21:49
10	718.68 km	530	HABASQUE Gerard – (dos. 26)	PERFORMANCE SPORTS NUTRITION	V1M	3/884	190:31:51
11	705.12 km	520	LOQUET Patrice – (dos. 2392)	ACM	V2M	4/480	189:45:43
12	687.492 km	507	ODOUARD Dominique – (dos. 10)	CFM	V2M	5/480	189:52:58
13	680.712 km	502	CHEVILLON Mimi – (dos. 14)	ACM	V1F	1/937	189:44:38
14	664.44 km	490	GILLARD Claude – (dos. 35)		V3M	3/178	190:39:07
15	656.304 km	484	LARCHER Rene – (dos. 16)	US AIGREFEUILLE	V3M	4/178	189:44:13
16	642.744 km	474	KLUKA Peter – (dos. 39)	CARITAS RIBEIRO MVT STE DEVOTE	V3M	5/178	190:32:23
17	638.676 km	471	DEFECHEUREUX Bernard – (dos. 41)	ECOTELEC ABYLON ROSNY SS BOIS	V2M	6/480	190:36:02
18	637.32 km	470	BETAILLE Roger – (dos. 22)	FSN SAM	V2M	7/480	190:35:24
19	610.2 km	450	FOUNDLING HAWKER Heather Ruth – (dos. 6623)	FONDATION SANCTA DEVOTA	V1F	2/937	190:36:48
20	610.2 km	450	FOUCHARD DJEBLI ***** Annick – (dos. 1687)	MI	V3F	1/226	190:38:01
21	608.844 km	449	SCHEFFER Christian – (dos. 5)		V2M	8/480	189:58:53
22	606.132 km	447	JEANNIN Christian – (dos. 31)	MI	V3M	6/178	190:28:38
23	596.64 km	440	ARZEL Jean Claude – (dos. 42)	ACM	V2M	9/480	188:46:17
24	568.164 km	419	MOZSIK Jozsef – (dos. 21)		SEM	2/1285	190:26:09
25	562.74 km	415	COLLIOU Jean Claude – (dos. 11)		V3M	7/178	190:31:39
26	541.044 km	399	RUSSIAS Pierre – (dos. 4)	ACM	V3M	8/178	189:47:27
27	539.688 km	398	SALILLAS GARCIA Garcia – (dos. 25)		SEM	3/1285	190:33:17
28	535.62 km	395	BOULITEAU Bernard – (dos. 32)	PERFORMANCE SPORTS NUTRITION	V1M	4/884	190:33:22
29	519.348 km	383	FLORIER Fabrice – (dos. 19)	CHPG	V1M	5/884	190:30:01
30	513.924 km	379	JUDLIN Roland – (dos. 13)		V4M	1/86	190:31:57
31	511.212 km	377	LANNOY Francis – (dos. 12)		V3M	9/178	189:44:53
32	503.076 km	371	MARO Csaba – (dos. 33)		V1M	6/884	190:37:56
33	500.364 km	369	SHERRINGTON Abichal – (dos. 6808)	METROPOLE FASHION TEAM	V2M	10/480	143:08:25
34	475.956 km	351	VOEGELI Dorothe – (dos. 6518)	CHILDREN et FUTURE	V1F	3/937	190:34:59
35	466.464 km	344	NYSTROM Kg – (dos. 6724)	PUSSY FOOTING AROUND	V4M	2/86	190:41:50
36	465.108 km	343	REVELLI Michel – (dos. 435)	FAIRMONT MONTE CARLO	SEM	4/1285	190:23:33
37	455.616 km	336	KLEIN Pascal – (dos. 436)	FAIRMONT MONTE CARLO	V1M	7/884	190:31:32
38	444.768 km	328	LE FORESTIER David – (dos. 3977)	FONDATION SANCTA DEVOTA	SEM	5/1285	190:38:10
39	431.208 km	318	FAGGIO Gerard – (dos. 6188)	MONACO TELECOM	V3M	10/178	190:40:31
40	428.496 km	316	FORNERIS Robert – (dos. 6165)	MAIRIE DE CAP D AIL	V4M	3/86	19