Opinion: Land's End to John O'Groats was anything but regular in 2021
There’s no winner; instead, the intensity for each crew is to incur as few penalty points as possible as they vie for gold, silver and bronze medals.
This time, only 11 of the 54 finishers won medals, with only three each gold and silver – fewer than anyone can recall. Among the gold medallists were Dick Appleton, making his LeJog debut in his seventies, and his navigator son, Mark, in aClerk of the course Guy Woodcock described the 2021 edition as “one of the toughest I’ve been involved in”. He said: “Every bit of bad weather hit the event, from high winds to hailstones, snow to black ice and flooded tracks.
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