Incredible

She has just knocked out a 17:54 up to 40km and is up to 45th.

She has a safe gap ahead and is going to grab several more places. Top Brit only 11 seconds ahead.

She is going to go under 2.32 and be the fastest Danish runner in the Olympics - ever!

Amazing consistency

18:07 for 5km up to 35km with 6 ahead within 39 seconds. Freya Murray (top UK runner) is 1:10 ahead.

Another great split

She has just done 18:05 for the 5km up to 30km. She has gained 2 more places (57th) but what is significant is that she has 8 ahead within a minute. I think a top 50 beckons.

Gained another 3 places

Its going to get harder for Jess now to gain places - the gaps ahead are bigger so it will depend on when people start to slow. She is 1:46 behind Freya Murray the top Brit at 25km.

Only 1 Brit ahead of Jess

She is up to 62nd ahead of Claire Hallissey.

Jess currently 70th

Position	Olympics	Split	London Marathon
5km	78	17:46	17:46	17:57
10km	72	35:46	18:00	36:32
15km	70	53:48	18:02	54:58
20km				1:13:32
Halfway				1:17:30
25km				1:31:53
30km				1:50:27
35km				2:08:49
40km				2:26:56
Finish				2:34:56

1958 photo

Had some visitors tonight including the man in the photo above - 54 years after it was taken! His family picked up some photos of him in the TT Relay Walk that I published previously) so I wonder if they will find this one - or whether anyone can identify him.

Quite a shock to hear last week about Kevin Vondy being flown away to a hospital in Liverpool but I held back from publishing anything until I had some more news. Thanks to Gail and David Griffiths.