just to add to the excitement, emails from Justin getting delayed... this has just arrived, but was written at 04:59:
"Bovey Tracey and nothing is open - sitting on the pavement eating Ritz crackers. That last section was a mutha fucka! It was very very lumpy and exposed over Exmoor. I managed to ride through', save a few micro-naps to stave of the dozzies. I also had to thwart an attempted double-badger attack"
!