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

overconfidence and poor planning...

it has become apparent to me that many people felt disrespected by cap 256's scratch. i want to express how difficult of a decision it was for us to scratch and that we meant no disrespect towards anyone involved in this event be it racers or organizers or applicants. we had booked our flights out on the 14th day thinking we could finish the race by the 13th day. upon our arrival in romania it became painfully obvious that this goal was overly ambitious. we looked into changing our flights and the fact was that we could not afford to do so. this was clearly poor planning on our part. so we cut our losses and rode as far was we could. the flight out takes us to montreal where we are to race in the cycle messenger world championships where we had hoped to spin stories to our friends about how we rode from belgium to greece in 13 days. we absolutely had every intention of finishing this race and i want to make it clear that it was not a decision we made lightly. it was not about leaving this to go do something else, it was about realizing we could not make our deadline. we are both incredibly sad to not have made it to meteora. while our scratch may be disappointing to many of you, believe me it is disappointing to us as well. riding what we did gave us nothing but the utmost respect for all of you regardless if that respect is reciprocated.
best,
cap 256