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Perce is on a flyer today! He's lost a total of 46, including 16 on the Inversanda sections (which took a fair few marks off the top boys) and a 5 on the big step at Trotters. Ishy's lost 83 today, but 10 of that was on time and he matched Perce on Inversanda. However, he did get a 2 on the step at Trotters, so it wasn't all bad news! The moral of Wednesday's story is to do your own sums...Ish was one of quite a few who left the time calculations to the garages and came off worst because of it. Lazy sod. Despite all of that, they're both still going strong! Perce is in 117th place, well within the first class awards range, and Ishy is 157th but still has plenty time to get back up the leaderboard. Good luck to them for tomorrow - it's dried out a fair bit here tonight, so with any luck they'll get a decent run out in the morning. Thursday's the longest day of the week by far, so getting drenched before you get to the first sections just means a long, long, cold day ahead. Keep your fingers crossed for them!

It is indeed Iris, number two in the world.

It's just getting worse for Ishy - after the five sections at Callart he's dropped 21 (5, 5, 3, 5, 3). Perce has held out, only dropping six marks (0, 3, 1, 2, 0). I blame the rain - don't think Ishy's seen any in the past two years...

That's the first five books just come in, so another update will follow shortly....in the meantime I can report that the boys were early to bed (again) last night. They came up to the Milton for a bit, but had vanished without saying goodbye by the time we got out of the office - don't worry though, they've already been reprimanded. After Tuesday's escapades, the TC leaderboard looked like this : 01. StuHRC (44) 02. BoydW (63) 03. Trialero (69) 04. Perce (104) 05. Ishy (113) 06. Sharpy (115) 07. Physco (127) 08. Timp (150) 09. Army Man (152) 10. Gizza5 (155) 11. Staggiedog (156)

Hmmm...just for you then! Mark's dropped 187 over the two days - he's currently sitting in 218th place. Alonso and Soler are on 67 and 53 respectively, so they're all still out there.

Mark's on the far left!

She was wild at herself for the dabs she did make too!

Yup - Perce dropped an impressive 44 for the day, leaving him on 104 overall, whereas Ishy dropped 15 more, putting him on 113 overall. That means Perce is in front by 12 places just now...but both are in 1st class award territory, which ain't bad going for two old codgers.

Early indications are that Perce has trashed Ishy today....more to follow!

Currently knee-deep in manky route cards, thank you very much.

Mark is indeed on a 4T - I didn't mention him because it's not an 06 model...or at least I don't think it is, but I don't know 'owt so don't quote me on that!

It's another quiet spell in the office, and seeing as Perce and Ishy are lying low here's a quick update on some of the other TC faces riding the trial (well, the ones that I know anyway!) Gizza5 has dropped two for the day, coincidentally on the same section as Perce - he's on 96 at the moment, so he's a bit behind Ishy and Perce but he's probably having far more fun!! Gizza's sidekick Army Man has also dropped two so far - one on each of the first and third subs on Laggan - but he's only on 80 so far. Staggiedog's also dropped two on the second section and he's on 86 at the moment, so I suspect there's a mini competition going on there too! Young Girl Sunt has dropped 5 today and is on 88 (giving the boys a run for their money!), Timp's on 80 at the moment having dropped 1 on the second sub, Baldilocks is on 56 and is clean for the day so far, Sharpy's dropped two for the day and is sitting on 72 (drives much like Kinell apparently.....very fast!!!), Trialero is on 31 having dropped 2 for the day so far, Physco has dropped three and is on 51 at the moment, BoydW's dropped 2 and has 36 just now, but top of the pile is StuHRC who's clean so far and on a total of 26 - nice one Stu! Now I'd better stop pretending I'm busy and do something constructive. Ciao!

After the opening sections at Laggan Locks, Ishy's slowly pulling away (slowly being the operative word, by all accounts, eh Ishy?!) There's three subs there, and Ishy's clean through all of them whereas Perce has dropped two marks on the second, so the gap is up to 8 points. For now anyway....that Perce is a determined so-and-so when he gets going so I can't see it staying that way for long!

The boys are off around 11.15-ish today, so there'll be nothing to report for a while yet...and there's no news of last night's antics either as nobody has seen hide nor hair of them since they got in. This is serious....

There's two of them (I think anyway!) - Jorge Alonso (235) and Jordi Soler (243)....don't know any more than that though, sorry! They're both riding steadily with 32 and 35 marks dropped respectively - so far, so good!

Well, I'm pleased to say they both appear to have found their way back to the Parc Ferme (and are probably tucked up in their beds as we speak!) Day 1 sees Ishy take the win with an impressive 54 marks lost (although his bro did even better on 29!) but Perce is hot on his heels! He's on 60 marks lost, so it's going to be fun and games tomorrow...as long as Ishy hasn't hit the bar.

Anybody who hasn't been sleeping for the last few months will know that our very own Ishy and Perce are both riding the SSDT - and what with Ishy declaring his outright superiority and Perce shedding the pounds at a rate of knots, it's shaping up to be a tough competition between them. It's two years since Ishy rode the SSDT and at that point he beat Perce by 13 marks, so I think the gauntlet has been thrown down this year and Perce is right up for the challenge....so the question on everybody's lips must be who is winning so far? Play along...! Well, after 11 sections (that's Leanachen, Bradilieg, Loch Eilde Cottage, Loch Eilde Mor and Schoolhouse) I can tell you that Ishy is edging ahead with 5 dropped whereas Perce is hot on his tail with 8 down. Ishy lost two on the last sub at Bradilieg and three on the second at Loch Eilde Cottage (could still be suffering from the overindulgences of Saturday night?), whereas Perce dropped one on each of the two Leanachen sections (adjusting to the combination of weight loss and the 4RT perhaps?), one at Loch Eilde Cottage, two at Loch Eilde Mor and a three on the last sub at Schoolhouse. Now I'd better go and do some proper work - more updates when I get a spare second!

Provisional results here : Pre-65 Results

SSDT site is not the place to find Pre-65 stuff I'm afraid - the trials are run as two entirely separate events and we're lucky if we see each other once a year! However, I did manage to find a copy of the results and can tell you that the top ten were : 1. Neil Gaunt (3) 2. Graham Du Feu (4) 3. Paul Heys (5) 4. Davy Morewood (6) 5. Dave Thorpe (6) 6. Alan Crayk (7) 7. Gavin Johnston (7) 8. Peter Salt (8) 9. Stephen Collins (8) 10. Chris Griffin (9)

I heard he was causing problems at Scorpa - but I didn't hear that from anybody that is directly involved with them, so it may just be gossip!

I heard that it wasn't his decision to make...

The SSDT and Pre-65 are run as two separate trials by two separate committees - I'm afraid the SSDT website only holds information on the SSDT, so you won't find anything there for the Pre-65 at all. To be honest, I doubt you'll get an entry list online - to the best of my knowledge the organising committee don't have web access at the moment.

It is indeed - they're sections that Willie and Mark found the weekend before he died (and apparently they're not simple, so be warned!).

Skipton, first left?

It should have....except Fife isn't in the Highlands and is about 160 miles south of the Fort rather than north! I'm just out to confuse - I'm from Sutherland (north of FW) and that's where I consider home to be, but I live in Fife (south of FW) until such time as I can afford to be a lady of leisure and move home again! Well done Slapshot - should've asked you in the first place! Thirty-odd years of SSDT spectating means you know where you're going as well as any local!