I was absolutely incensed tonight. Matt is in sever pain and finished around midnight last night. Arguably his medical advisers should pull him out of the event to prevent long term damage.
However he was unable to start this morning "because his support team had to have 10 hours rest". He is doing 14 hours a day on a bike in pain and they can't start unless they have enough sleep (the poor souls).
Words fail me. (Well they don't, I could go on for ages, but I won't bore you).
I agree it seems rough, but I suppose it depends on what the support team are doing? If there's driving involved, it may be a legal thing. He may be doing it out of the goodness of his heart, but they may well be working, and therefore subject to working time rules.
Or it may be a way of forcing him to rest, if he's so determined that he won't listen to advice.
Are there any stats on the rickshaw? I just know it's not a Maximus. I know a lot of Maximus riders (me included, although I'm at the very low end of the fitness scale), and they ride really quite nicely - heavy yes, but free rolling. Uphills are slow, but on the flat, unladen, they aren't so much worse than a heavy bike and downhill, well, there the fun starts! Of course, we rarely get into double figures mileage in a working day (one of my colleagues sometimes does 10 miles in a day, half of that laden with up to 150kg), so I appreciate there's a huge difference in that respect.
Got a bit of a soft spot for him it has to be said 
