By halfway, Dinitz had a commanding lead, just one second shy of 3 minutes. The chase pack had dropped to 8 people including: Claudio Villanueva, Aleksi Ojala, Wei YU, Andres Chocho, Evan Dunfee, Hirooki Arai, Kai Kobayashi, Havard Haukenes, Horacio Nava. Many more trailed in striking distance of the pack and the race as we know was still very early!