No idea what the order is between Ian, Javi and Lee at the moment - it's going to be close!

Bouncing dot for Liam.

He must be happy with that!

Liam's across the A82, Phil must be just coming up to the King's House.

After such a short stop last night Philip must be knackered. Doubt he can close the gap.

scratch that .... liams out in front again by 5 minutes. .

Yes, seems to have opened a lead up now....

Still a lot of ground to cover though!

Liam and Philip must be pretty much riding together approaching the top of the Devil's Staircase. From the Spots it looks like Lee is about an hour behind with Ian a few minutes further back.

Looks like Liam stopped for about half an hour in Dornie, and is now about to start the Glen Lichd climb. There is maybe ~16 hours riding time left to the finish for Liam. If he doesn't stop I don't think anyone can catch him. If Javi/one of the other 3 in the chase group pulls an all nighter and Li...

How different is the Fisherfield section? I.e. Dundonnel to Poolewe or possibly to the end of the Tollie path vs Dundonnel to Kinlochewe. I think the new section there is almost time neutral compared to the old route even though it is much shorter in distance. From what I've seen the Torridon chang...

Just been comparing the old Torridon section against the new one. I reckon the new one is ~ 2.5 hours faster based on Liam's time and mine from last year.

Alan's definitely made the route too easy now.

Liam's suddenly got a 45 min lead on all the rest - and they're still breakfasting at the Whistle Stop Café!

Where did Liam Glen come from? He seems to be carving his way through the leaders!

Maybe Salsa could be convinced to hand out pie tokens to the HT550 starters like they apparently do for the TD starters?

Yep, Pie Town New Mexico versus Pie Shop Lochinver (Lochinver Larder).

Nik's on the move again. Must have been sampling the excellent seafood at the Kylesku hotel.

What's happened to Nik Kinloch?

Maybe he has just stopped for a very long lunch.

He's not going anything like as quickly as I expected knowing about his sub 24hr Capital Trail and the pace he was doing on the Cairngorms Loop.

Philip didn't stop, so is now with Stuart again.

Looks like Stuart, Lee and Javi will be having a re-group at the Oykel Bridge Hotel very shortly...

Loving the excitement of dot-watching this year's race. Keeping me distracted from what's happening next week!

Unfortunately it looks like Lee didn't double back from her off-route spot. From there to Lochinver only took 20 mins.

Compare that with Philip Addyman who took 46 mins to do it via the off road route, which fits in with my experience of that section.

Philip and Stuart are not far from the Hydro bothy now. Will they stop there for the night or press on into the dark?

Assuming Howard bashes on without stopping much I think we're looking at a midnight finish.

He may meet some traffic on the run into Tyndrum on Saturday!

Nah, no chance he'll stop before the finish now.

It will probably be a late one, but I hope there will be a good reception committee for him with all the racers lined up ready to go in the morning.

Howard's still making good progress. About to hit Kinlochewe for what should be a cracking breakfast at the Whistle Stop Café.

Took Huw about 5 hours from Carnmore to Kinlochewe on the new route.

Took me about 4.5 hours last year on the old route, so it looks like the route change hasn't made a great deal of difference in time even though the new route is much shorter!

That new section on the postie's path along the side of Loch Maree must be tough! Huw's done just over 2 miles in the last hour.

He'll be looking forward to a good breakfast in Kinlochewe!

Quite a relaxed start this morning has given Huw a chance to resupply in Lochinver.