Transcontinental Race (London - Istanbul) - #TCRNo4

Maybe his route was on the M18, he's getting back to it.

The time gap yesterday 11 pm was 6 hours.
Mucho less now.

Skinny to draft him to Istanbul then do him in the last 200m

Looks like josh slept last night, skinny the night before. Now they are both equidistant from Foca.

Its on!

Thank goodness he is turning right towards Brod and not towards CP3. Phew. Talk about suspense ...

Any estimates on ETA at istanbul?

Has that wrong turn fired Josh up, the last point to point was fast considering the ave speed is straight line and it was twisty as fuck

Also descended about 200m since the turn.

It looks as if they are both going to converge on the M18 at a similar time. exciting!

Josh gets there a couple of miles ahead according to the tracker right now but @skinny s hasn't updated for a couple of minutes. They haven't been this close together since the start, no?

They should meet up for a chat and a 2up to the finish.

I wonder if either are aware of how close they are.

No assistance allowed...
Wonder if they are feeling warmly towards each other or hating each other right now.

Is Josh on the right road?

which route is better? This is so exciting

Skinny averaging 2 km/h faster atm? How long till the catch?

Go @skinny

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this is just awesome - go @skinny

don't forget to give him "the look" as you go past.

will they both be taking the same road, it looks much of a muchness distance wise but the e782 looks to follow a valley all the way whereas it looks like there is some climbing on the road Josh has taken...

I'm only just catching up on this since last night. Amazing change in situation over night. It's on like Donkey Kong.

How am I going to get any work done today now?

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@skinny loitering at the bridge for the M18/M20 junction. Soon we'll know whether he's going to go east of the Drina or follow Josh down the West side.

Will they ride past Lee?

Ah... He stopped to tweet...

James Hayden ‏@JamesMarkHayden 3m3 minutes ago
Huge fucking storm in Bosnia. No point riding going to take a nap. Gaps closed enough for now. Neck is gone again.

Hope his neck is OK.

His head is held on with fucking GAFFA tape...

Both west on M20

Lee Pearce about to reach CP4

@skinnyis having a kip. There is a huge storm and his neck has gone again.

Beaten to it.