The official bulletin for stage 10 makes it sound like a clubrun, with all but one rider finishing together ...
The red bull Trans-SIberian Extreme peloton has successfully finished the tenth stage reaching Ulan-Ude. the riders asked the organisers for a stop at the lake Baikal for a swim and crossed the finish line in a pack keeping their places in the rankings
... except unlike a clubrun they covered 454km at 32.4 kph.
Stage 11, 659 km from Ulan-Ude to Chita, was won by Kristof Allegaert, with Ed Fuchs 34 minutes behind, but more significantly he gained 3 hrs 50 on Steve Harvey, and now has a lead of over 3:38 hours on GC.
Sounds like a big lead, but there are still over 2.5 PBPs before they reach Vladivostok. Tomorrow's stage 12 (beginning middle of the night GMT) is a monster 1342 km from Chita to Svobodny "through the Yablonovy Mountains along the border of China, with dense taiga forests and swamps on the side of the road. Sudden changes in temperature (up to 40 degrees), mosquitoes and long climbs make this stage a serious endurance challenge." No kidding. They'll have to grab some sleep somewhere as well on a stage of that length.
In the duo category the leaders are the Russian pair
Ivan Kovalev (current world scratch champion) and
Mikhail Ignatyev (5 Giri, 2 Tours, 3 Vueltas completed) .