Danny Shrewsbury

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Definitely. I think that's the side of me that knew that I would get through this, whatever, because I wouldn't want to let Brad down, especially because I know that he'd already done it once and that I was putting him through it again. But also, yeah, the competitive mindset that I've got, I just knew that I'd keep going. And even if I wasn't okay, I'd pretend I was okay.

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Sometimes you have to get a bit sassy with each other.

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One big thing is what came with the crash, it meant that it snapped my light off. I'm totally relying on following Brad in the dark. He might not have called out that dip, but after that, he called out everything.

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We hallucinated like no tomorrow. But the thing is, we're both so stubborn about giving up. Brad was calling out people that wasn't there. I was seeing patterns in rocks that weren't there. And I said, Brad, like, I'm in a bad way. And he was like, okay, me too, five minutes sleep. But it took one of us to actually own up how tired we were. When you're sleep deprived,

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Five minutes feels like a whole night, doesn't it? A full sleep on the side of the road as well. I managed to snore and wake myself up within five minutes. So I think that's quite impressive.

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And I think even a lot of the solo riders, they ended up in little groups, didn't they? And they kind of end up getting through it together. And you can't explain in that moment what you've gone through. But especially doing it as a pair, you can just look at each other and be like, wow, we've actually done it.