Pune Chapter — Loop 5

Loop 5 thinned the field hard — six fell. Two on the timeout: Bib 20 (Mukesh Raut) and Bib 806 (Akshay Chauhan). Four chose not to go back out: Bib 18 (Shyamal Mondal), Bib 808 (Nishant Patil), Bib 809 (Shikhar Dubey) and Bib 810 (Ashish Manral). 25 still on course. Tightest return: Bib 17 (Vikramjit Singh), 1 minute 37 seconds to spare — the kind of margin that doesn’t leave room to think about it.