Grand Traverse Record Race

Cleft Peak (52km) in ~8.5h! I believe the previous best time to Cleft was about 12h... if they can keep this up, we are going to see a serious smashing of the current record.

67km (almost a third of the way through) in under 12 hours. So accounting for slowing down at the end and sleeping for a few hours it seems like they are well on track to hit their 45 hour target.

I really like this live stats thing!

Mafadi in 15h56! The lead is up to 35km now. I wonder - is sub-40 hours actually a possibility?

The GPS track is for 207km, 90km in 16 hours, at that average pace that would be 37 hours. 2 hours for sleep would give them 39 hours - but I imagine they will slow down a lot at the end.

Perhaps it would be fun to place bets on the final time. Closest result gets 2c rounded off to the nearest increment of 5c?

I'm going with 41h27...

Ghaz, that guess of yours is starting to look very accurate! If they finish strongly, they may be able to sneak under 40h. Daylight is on their side now!

What a phenomenal effort...

I will stand by my feelings for years that sub 40 is possible, and support the guys in favour of being good enough to do it: so, here is a guess of 39 hrs!

Amazing bit of strategy on their side to do the long haul from Giants to Thabana Ntlenyana at night so they can keep running in the dark

The rules have now been changed forever, well done guys

So they have just passed the Sandleni Ridge - still No Man's, Verkyker, Mashai and Walker to go.

That's crazy - the stretch we covered in the first 2 days of GT in 2012 is what they have left. And those were some of the hardest days of the GT! I don't know if its possible to understand how fit these guys must be!

Wow, once over Wilson or Walker Peak (sorry I don't have my map with me, peak names a bit sketchy in my head). They are then on the homeward stretch. Men amoungst men.
Regards
Selous

They have the map at www.redbull.com/za/en/adventure/events/1331625638350/drakensberg-grand-traverse/live-map

They are on the No Man's ridge right now, almost at the top of Mzimkhulu Pass.

Roughly 38km to go, 25 hours left to break the record. Come on - finish strong!