Somehow he's made it...

Mike rolled into the finish at 0224hrs this morning... somehow he managed to get to Garstang and stay in this year's 9bar JOGLE Ultra. He boarded the bus well past the midnight cut-off that we have on the event this year and covered the last 15 miles in more than 5.5hrs... it was a very cold last six miles in.

As he is the last man standing, he was given a one off time-extension past the midnight cut-off.

Somehow, he has to do it all again tomorrow and cover the 61.1 miles to Tarporley by midnight (Saturday) to stay in the race.

How on earth is he going to do it?

Lancaster and still 8 to go...

It's cold, dark and lonely out there for poor old Mike tonight and there is still a good 8 miles to go. A pre-midnight finish now looks uncertain and its very, very windy as the day is drawing to an end.

At the finish, we have been joined by Colin Fitzjohn, one of last year's runners who knows first-hand just how hard this day of the event is.

So all we can do is wait for Mike to make it to the end of today and the warmth of the Sleeper Coach.

More when he gets here...

He's still in there and still fighting - 40 miles

Mike's race is now well on the ropes - but he's a fighter and hopefully he will go the full distance and reach that final finish line in Lands End. To get there, well he's now got an enormous task ahead of him. Every day will be harder than the previous and he needs to go faster than his 3.33mph of today.

Whether he can or not, we'll have to see. There's another 60 miler ahead of him tomorrow and he won't get to the finish this side of 2330hrs we think.

Looking on it's been so hard to watch, especially in the heat of yet another scorcher... he's looking very tanned indeed as you can see from the picture and hopefully he will get here before the end of the day.

Still waiting at 40 miles...

Mike's just gone thru the 12 hour barrier and has still to reach 40 miles - where we are right now. That's a ground coverage of 3.33mph and a projected five and a quarter hours from here onto whatever time he turns up...

This situation is looking serious for Mike's JOGLE dreams...

Over halfway...

Mike's just South of Kendal right now and over half way to the finish in Garstang today. It's slowly, slowly now all the way and hopefully now todays hills are out of the way he can get back into his rhythym and start knocking out the miles.

He is currently on pace to finish around the 2300-0000hrs mark leaving no time for food or recovery before tomorrow's early start down to Ludlow.

Royal Shap - 20 miles

The Royal Wedding kept us entertained as we waited for Mike on the top of Shap. I know that I have wittered on a bit about how tough Shap can be but it is a bugger of a long hard hill and one that Mike has had to walk up.

Something he's not keen on at all.

His speed has dropped to 3.33mph and he will hopefully now speed up on the drop down into Kendal. Go Mike...

More from there...

Going better at Shap - 10 miles

Mike took a good hour to get into his stride this morning but he reached CP1 in just under 3hrs. Slow, but he is still going and will hopefully speed up throughout the day. He'll need to otherwise he will be in the 18hr doldrums which would mean very little recovery time.

We are on over Shap now and will have more on his progress from just before Kendal...