Transcontinental Race (London - Istanbul) - #TCRNo4

Jim Cameron's final instalment;

http://www.albannach.cc/sra-x-tcr-pt-3/

“Prosim, Kolesar” [Thankyou, Cyclist]

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http://www.transcontinentaljoe.com/blog
Finally done my write up

You rock mate.
And Albanians are super cool people, mostly.

Joe. Just started reading that. Will complete later when I have more time but it reads wonderfully. You come across as an ordinary young man who has just done an extraordinary thing. Great reading.

Thanks Joe - Your write up made my afternoon. Very inspiring!

That was a great read, thanks and well done!

I'm honoured by these comments - thanks a lot everybody! I had a great time writing up the race.

@skinny The Albanians were brilliant - the family that took me in really made a great deal of effort out of me being there. Everybody else was super friendly the only problem were the road conditions and my lack of Albanian currency.

I'm routing for you next year though

Fantastic read and effort! Thank you!

That was an ace read!
Fantastic work!

Took me a couple of sittings to get to the end, cracking read. Well done .

I really enjoyed reading that, thanks for taking the time to write your adventure up.

Well done Joe.

Great read

Joe. Just managed to read it all. Beautifully written. Well done.

Would certainly reread.

What a fabulous write up!

enjoyed that thx,

especially the paragraph accompanying your first sleeping spot!!

you gonna save up some cash for a roof over your head next time, or rough it again?!

the romantic image of sleeping in a nice soft field seems so different from your race reality that i'd deffo be bringing a credit card / currency in some future possible year of to hell with it!

transcontinentaljoe.com/blog
Finally done my write up

Wow, properly amazing. Really really enjoyed reading that, be proud, you did an ace thing!

Really good read! I was going to add a comment to your blog, but your dads comment couldn't be topped, to be fair :0)

@howradmichello definitely getting a bivy bag next time. I find the sleeping the most difficult part if I could have just crashed anywhere I probably would have saved a lot of time.

@stedlocks thanks, I think that's his subtle way of saying not to do it again. I'm not sure yet but I've been thinking about it more and more

Hi Joe - inspiring read. Quick question on training - you said in you blog "Other than that he suggested that training needn't last longer than 4 hours as this was the point at which fat starts to get burned and this is what I should train my body to do well."

If you are training your body to burn fat and this starts after 4 hours would this not suggest that longer rides beyond 4-hours are what is needed so as to spend a good period of time in this phase? I like the idea of this type of event and interested to know more about the training process.

Thanks.

I perhaps didn't explain that part too well. This is exactly what he said to me:

You need to go out for 3-4 hours without eating breakfast, then start eating carbs the moment you go light headed. This will improve as your body adapts to using your fat stores for fuel. This is the key adaptation you need to make. Keep to 70% of max heart rate. Of all your training this is the most important.

I think though that it's important to do a few longer rides just so I knew that I was capable of going for longer although physically it wouldn't help too much.

Keep to 70% of max heart rate. Of all your training this is the most important.

Christopher McDougall writes about this at length in the follow-up to Born to Run, Natural Born Heros, which is a good read and potentially inspires a trip to a great island.. (or even a bicycle ride if you so dare!!)

Another race report to read... bloody hell I wish you lot would just take pictures! :P