TCR No9

[JonBuoy]

Maria has returned to CP4(ish) and is taking the flatter route whereas Jaimi has pressed on through the hills.  I guess we will have to wait a while to see who is leading.

[StuAff]

^surely that means that someone else (in the top 10) will have to recieve a similar fate... Otherwise who did he ride with?

Sebastian Sarx, 139. Same sanction, classed as finisher.

[Phil Hears A Who]

. I reckon the goat track between parcours 4a and b was worth anything between an hour or two over the road. That is if there's no drama. one guy I was close to got lost, another had a big sidewall cut, I had an off and needed to get 2 stitches in my elbow just round the corner  from cp4. I'd almost started snoring by the time the doc had finished with the stitches ...

Currently settling into the night shift on the longer flat route to finish parcours. Feel like I've been trying to beat the climbers at their own game (and losing) for most of the race so nice to just sit on the flat for a few hundred km and see if my diesel  can make up and places

[StuAff]

. I reckon the goat track between parcours 4a and b was worth anything between an hour or two over the road. That is if there's no drama. one guy I was close to got lost, another had a big sidewall cut, I had an off and needed to get 2 stitches in my elbow just round the corner  from cp4. I'd almost started snoring by the time the doc had finished with the stitches ...

Currently settling into the night shift on the longer flat route to finish parcours. Feel like I've been trying to beat the climbers at their own game (and losing) for most of the race so nice to just sit on the flat for a few hundred km and see if my diesel  can make up and places

Hope the elbow heals well. Phenomenal effort!

[quixoticgeek]

I would very much like to know what Mikko was drinking when he planned this route.

As well as where to get it, and if he'll share...

That's a weird route to Cp3.

J

[JonBuoy]

Maria has returned to CP4(ish) and is taking the flatter route whereas Jaimi has pressed on through the hills.  I guess we will have to wait a while to see who is leading.

Maria appeared to be making better progress than Jaimi until she stopped at 2am.  It looked like she needed a snooze but then an hour later her tracker was doing 100+kph en route to the local hospital 

Hit a rut in the road. Called and Picked up by ambulance
Cut to knee and bump to head
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Will need stitches in knee, quite a deep cut
Head seems ok
Will try and continue in a couple of days if possible, but don't know how likely that is

Jaimi is only a couple of hours ahead of Susanne who is also doing a variation of the lumpy route out of Parcours 4C.  The race is still on.

[quixoticgeek]

Really starting to worry about Mikko. He got to CP3 with less than 8 hours in hand. Giving him about 55 hours to get to CP4. But looking at the timing noones managed that. The road surface quality just doesn support the speeds...

J

[JonBuoy]

Really starting to worry about Mikko. He got to CP3 with less than 8 hours in hand. Giving him about 55 hours to get to CP4. But looking at the timing noones managed that. The road surface quality just doesn support the speeds...

J

Not sure where you are getting that from.  By my reckoning about half of the people who have passed through CP4 managed the CP3-CP4 segment in under 55 hours.  The fastest was Tobias Fuchs in 43:41.

[quixoticgeek]

Ah. That's a relief. Interpreting the leader board on mobile is non trivial.

J

[JonBuoy]

It does mean that he hasn't got much spare time to go on one of his tile collecting missions 

[peterc]

Seeing conformation/updates on Maria which makes me a bit happier

Her tracker has moved from the hospital to in town which could be a good sign.

Given it was her that got me into the whole dot watching thing in the first place I feel I'm getting the full experience.

[quixoticgeek]

It does mean that he hasn't got much spare time to go on one of his tile collecting missions 

He posted on Mastodon that he's not gonna be posting much now so as to make the cut off. I've a suspicion he's gonna take the fastest route he can now.

I wonder if he's gonna take the hike or the bike between 4a and 4b.

Seeing conformation/updates on Maria which makes me a bit happier

Her tracker has moved from the hospital to in town which could be a good sign.

Given it was her that got me into the whole dot watching thing in the first place I feel I'm getting the full experience.

Knowing now the sense of dread I felt when I first saw her dot at the hospital I now feel even worse for those following me last year. I stopped at a hotel and being inside my tracker had no GPS, so didn't send any more updates while I slept. Which is expected. Except the last point it did send before I went into the hotel, was outside a hospital as I waited at the traffic lights. So for 6 hours it showed my position being at a hospital.

Race control have said Maria needed stitches, and hopes to rest for a day or so. Then resume her ride. I'm guessing she has to ride back to where the ambulance picked her up and continue.

J

[StuAff]

Phil's made it. 11 days, 2hrs 26 mins. Congratulations! David Tschan (of improvised rim tape fame) also in. Jaimi in as fastest solo woman, a couple of hours ahead of Susanne (191). Well done to them all.

[StuAff]

Maria has now scratched. Presumably she needs more recovery time. Davef has also scratched, yesterday.

[quixoticgeek]

At the back of the race there's still riders moving through Slovenia.

ION, Slovenia is currently experiencing fuck tons of rain and the resulting flooding...

J

[quixoticgeek]

https://mastodon.social/@mkpaa/110831582664725598

This makes me wonder, you're allowed to check the tracker and follow another riders route via that.

Are you allowed to follow tyre tracks in the dirt?

J

[mattc]

https://mastodon.social/@mkpaa/110831582664725598

This makes me wonder, you're allowed to check the tracker and follow another riders route via that.

Are you allowed to follow tyre tracks in the dirt?

J

Scrolling back, he posted the best wildlife pic I've seen yet - gold eagles! (best species  - maybe not a great PIC ...)

[quixoticgeek]

Looks like Mikko reached CP4 at 1103. Cutting it very fine. Under an hour until it closes.

Now he's just got 2.5 days to do the final 500. Tho that final parcour looks brutal.

J

[morbihan]

check out #121 route from CP4. Much further west via Edessa.
Looks like it saves a lot of up.

[quixoticgeek]

Info is coming out now about Anatole being removed from GC. Looks like he rode for no more than 90 minutes along side another rider. They had the same pace on a parcour.

Looks like lost dot have been incredibly harsh on this one. When they said significant amount of time I thought they meant a whole day. Not 90 mins. Esp as on a climb where you can really only do one speed and stopping and restarting is hard.

Not impressed

J

[JonBuoy]

Mikko is riding back down parcours 4C.  Maybe he left something at CP4.  Surely he isn't going to do the Strasser flat boring route to the finish parcours when he has a couple of days to get all creative!

[quixoticgeek]

Mikko is riding back down parcours 4C.  Maybe he left something at CP4.  Surely he isn't going to do the Strasser flat boring route to the finish parcours when he has a couple of days to get all creative!

Was just thinking the same...

J

[StuAff]

I don't think anyone would disagree with Lost Dot on this one:
"#163 Laurent Leguay   Rider scratched - no contact but a bus to Thessaloniki is against a rule I’m sure."

 

[quixoticgeek]

I don't think anyone would disagree with Lost Dot on this one:
"#163 Laurent Leguay   Rider scratched - no contact but a bus to Thessaloniki is against a rule I’m sure."

 

That depends. If they then goto a bike shop. Get some parts, then cycle back to where they got the bus from and continued on.

They'd be ok.

J

[StuAff]

Indeed. But he didn't do that, unlike some others....