A very thorough and interesting report from a totally different perspective to most of the rest of us in the race.

Congratulations on a fine defence of your title - well deserved - hopefully you'll be there again doing battle next year with an even stronger field for the 20th running of this classic event.

For my part, I fully intend to be there again and might even have a go at 'racing' rather than just 'surviving'....


MH