Day 39, October 7

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Tejvan organises short-distance running and cycling races for the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team in his home city of Oxford. He is also a very good cyclist, having won the National hill climb championships in 2013 and finished 3rd in the National 100 Mile Time Trials in 2014.

It was cloudy in the morning hours today, but the sun finally came out, and the runners started taking advantage of the clear skies. Andrea Marcato was among the leaders, as he usually does. He reached 4500 km in 38:13:05:57. A few hours later Andrea reached the 2,800 mile mark in 38:14:10:00.

Ashprihanal Aalto actually became the Day winner with 68.0 miles on his daily effort. He reached 4300 km in 38:02:43:55, followed by his 17th time reaching the 2,700 mile mark in 38:10:14:00. Wei-Ming Lo reached 2600 miles in 38:05:00:16. Then he encountered the 4200 km in 38:07:05:31 to increase his own third place efforts. Pushkar Mulleur reached 4,100 km in 38:01:12:51. Later he reached 2600 miles in 38:15:36:35.

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Andrea Marcato maintained his position ahead of Ashprihanal with a solid 72.4 miles. The smooth-running Mr Aalto reached 75.1 miles to move a bit closer to the Italian athlete, who happens to be 12 years younger than the Finish overall record holder. Both men should pass the 1000 mile mark on today-Thursday, as well as the 1500km mark. Budjargal had another sub par day with 46.1 miles, but he reached a new personal and national best of 900 miles in 12 days+17:02:12.

Fourth placer Pushkar Mullauer has moved closer to third place as he posted another day with 67.5 miles. He is only 12 miles behind third place and has been consistent since the start day. Only Day 8 was a few laps below 60 miles, and the rest of his output has been near or over 65 to 67 mile days. Pushkar, Vasu and Wei-Ming Lo should pass the 900 mile mark on Thursday, so there will be quite a few horns and bells throughout the day.

Annabel Hepworth is very solid and is running very smoothly, with no sub-par days at all. Grahak Cunningham is running quite well, and he looks like the fine runner he was from 2011 and 2012.

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Andrea Marcato took over the race today, totalling 76.2 miles/ 122.6 km. Ashprihanal Aalto was a little down in his running today, getting 70.2 miles/ 112.97 km. He still keeps five straight days of over 70 miles in a row. Budjargal Beyambaa had a slow start that almost allowed himself to consider having had enough. But good for him, he started running back to his quick pace for the last 6 or 7 hours to bring himself to holding on to third place and reach 51 miles in a personal redeeming restart. Pushkar and Vasu were at even from yesterday as a tie for fourth place Today Pushkar pulled three miles ahead of Vasu and maintained another solid day, just under 70 miles. We-Ming Lo reached 800 miles today in a time of 11:15:19:31. He is getting to the level he found last year, when his last 16 days were amazing, and carried himself to a 3100-mile finish in 45 days +8 hours.