Loop 14 came home clean — all seven still out there answered the bell, and nobody fell. The tightest return belonged to Bib 6, back with just over three minutes to spare after a lap that clearly took more out of him than the seven before it. Bib 1, Ankit Sharma, was the quickest in at 44:56, with Bib 22 — Aditya, still the quiet story of the day — next at 49:35. Seven runners, fourteen yards each, 93.9 km, the field unchanged for another hour.