Transcontinental Race No. 5 - TCR5 - #TCRN05 - 2017

Yep.

What do we know about Jonas Goy and Geoffroy Dussault?

Bjorn Lenhard I know has won PBP and Transatlantic Way and has ridden TCR before.

You can't win PBP but Björn dropped everybody.

https://www.mavic.com/en-int/mavic-live/paris-brest-paris-2015-forget-2011

Geoffrey was top ten last year.

Dussault is literally a mile from CP1

Iirc, Dussault is an ex-continental pro who last year went out waaay to hard and massively paid for it in the second half of the race. Looking at his pace now, I wonder if he's learnt from that, has built up the strength to keep up what he's putting out now or is simply repeating last year's mistake.

Yes, Dussault, who has just left CP1 came 7th last year, but I read somewhere that he lost 15 hours when he had tyre problems in the middle of nowhere, and had been challenging for a podium place.
Goy, in second place, did it in 2015 and was in 5th when he had to abandon after a fall 200km from the finish.
Bjorn Lenhard is 3rd, we all know about him since he not only finished first on PBP but broke the record time, riding unsupported against supported riders, and was close to Kristof at Cp2 last year before getting ill
Skinny is 4th
Rory McCarron, in 5th, I can't find out much about. He is a Brit, seems to work as a personal injury solicitor doing cycling claims.
Ian To in 6th is expected to do well. He tried to enter TCR last year but couldnt get a place. He has won Hard Cro the last couple of years, by good margins, and done other ultra stuff.

It looks like there is a race on with half a dozen useful riders at the front!

Just checked the guys I leapfrogged with a few times last year and they are 66th, 78th and 128th - definitely feels like a much more competitive field this time.

Rory is a Regents Park Rouleur with a penchant for 3-500km rides mid working week. Interesting chap. Really have no idea what the training regime of most of these competitors is like but he's really impressive

@frank9755 @Ptown @fussballclub

Thanks for info!

And thanks ludwig for the correction. Björn didn't win PBP but he finished first. And in a record time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2HBmY8HCWg

Looks like 136 Cesare Pedrini is riding fixed. He's in this vid at around 2 mins in.

And a really nice guy. Bloody strong, but I wonder how he'll get on when things get lumpy.

Jonas has just got in checker not working.

I believe Geoffroy is staying the night in the hotel.

Skinny on schedule, said he'd arrive around 22.00 in the vid

He is late.

he's only going to be thirty minutes late isn't he? Seems on schedule to me

Kind of.
When you set a schedule you aim to beat it. Psychologically it is so much better to be a little bit up on an easier schedule than to be just behind a harder one. If he said he would be there for 10 he was probably expecting it would be 9:30.

Still very impressive, 600km with a bit of climbing in 24h. As you said this is going to be interesting.

Just checking in to see how it was going and saw that shit news from earlier.

Skinny doing really well as the dots start to converge on CP1. Modan needs a 'most combative rider' or something so far.

Bjorn has continued on up, he's now the race leader.

Would have loved to have been in that room while video playing. Thanks for sharing #bemoremike

Seriously, Bjorn is on the move again?

The race between Rory & Skinny to get to CP1 could not be closer....

Björn Lenhard will go really really fast for another 600 and then realise he's not back in Paris?

Skinny is in. Looking fresh, he slept last night as well

Did skinny just take the lead?

Are you at the control?