{"id":637,"date":"2018-07-21T11:39:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T10:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/wordpress\/?p=637"},"modified":"2018-10-16T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:45:40","slug":"there-were-7-on-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"There were 7 on the bus&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And one is sleeping (possibly a cunning energy conservation strategy). The budget airline style coach is whisking them to the start line many many miles from their finish line campsite.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Pascal&#8217;s response to a 2am nightmare was to devise a new strategy: run a mile up the road from the campsite, hide in a bush, wait for the first elite athlete to come by (knackered) and then sprint past him to take first place like a hero. Panic comes in many forms apparently.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0339.jpg\" width=\"2042\" height=\"1258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0339.jpg 2042w, https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0339-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0339-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0339-1024x631.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some chilli sauce on a bacon sandwich has got him back on track this morning. And the team are looking good. Grumbles about the downsides of camping from some runners and having slept &#8220;rubbish&#8221; from others show clear signs that they are at the top of their game.<\/p>\n<p>According to our guys in the field, the scenery is stunning and very lumpy. As I type, they&#8217;ve just arrived at the start line.<\/p>\n<p>One hour until they set off and live tracking is available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratracetracking.co.uk\">MvL<\/a> site if you want to follow the runners. *drum roll*<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-636\" src=\"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0338.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0338.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0338-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0338-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_0338-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And one is sleeping (possibly a cunning energy conservation strategy). The budget airline style coach is whisking them to the start line many many miles from their finish line campsite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}