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

congrat to everyone really.

Yay @hippy! Chocolate milk ftw!

Keep going @Wiesia, your hair looks like you've used really expensive beach spray on it, so that's got to be a win, right?

Nice one @hippy !! Awesome ride.

Chapeau @hippy great ride well done and keep going @Wiesia you've done bloody well with all the problems you've had :D
Get them beers down ya neck

Neil Lauder cap 264b and Ian Tosh are still riding should be finishing tomorrow, get them a beer from me when you see them @skinny :)

Riders doing the TABR/TCR double are completely metal, let alone finishing well. Amazing.

Enjoying the videos. dot watching is so full of anticipation, it's like reading a book about a bike race compared to watching on TV, i create my own imagery of it all, amazed by all you riders...Keep on pedalling!

This morning consolidated top thirty after riding through the night. Go Inge!

I'm sure I'm not alone by noticing how much realitive press attention Sean conway's cross Europe record was getting. I guess the fact he was riding slower than the entire top 10 that completed TCR contributed to him scratching
http://road.cc/content/news/227439-sean-conway-abandons-guinness-world-record-attempt-through-injury

Know the right people. Press is bought.

Thankfully tcr is very under the radar, let's hope it stays that way.

Iirc though Josh got in the guardian a few years back when he won. And kristof always gets on the paper in Belgium (unsurprisingly) he's well known there.

You're in The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/gallery/2017/aug/11/the-transcontinental-bike-race-2400-gruelling-miles-across-europe-in-pictures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Didn't know that. Nice ohoto gallery, thanks!

Rimas finishing soon...

A few questions:
Did the time penalties get applied from that banned road (got confusing in the end) and what were/are they?
Have there been any penalties or disqualifications handed out so far?
Is the party on Saturday or after the finish control closes on Tuesday?

Penalties and full results won't be released till around the new year, its a difficult and long process.

Party is Saturday.

Ta skinny. Hope you all enjoy the party.

James Hayden, the eventual race winner, rode into the finish in Greece on Sunday 6 August after covering 3,733km at an average speed of 26.8kph.

TNRC pace (avg.) over 2,400 miles. :O

The excitment of hippy finishing must not detract from the epic battle still going on on the road towards CP3.

There are still seven riders involved and it looks as though they are all determined to finish. They are all riding at a sustainable pace. The gaps between them appear small on the map. At one point yesterday Wiesia's dot was obscured by another rider's. They were under a kilometre apart. 500 metres apart, however, can still be very lonely and one has to hope that they will meet at least a couple of others when they reach CP3, if not at "servos" on the route.

#200 Goran Arsovski leads the group with only 62k to go to CP3. He has already covered 36km today. He has been riding 11 hours a day recently and averaging around 200 km. He has moved up the rankings.

Only 5 km behind him is #224 Tina Nestoroska. She has upped her game and has been riding around 13 hours a day and averaging just over 200km a day.

Next come Weisia #53 averaging 12 hours a day or a little more and covering just under 200 km a day. She has 89 km to CP3 and should make it easily today.

#174 Hector Outeiral Nunez is around 18 km behind Wieisa. He is riding slightly less each day, around 10 hours a day over the past three days. His distance has varied quite considerably over those days from 128 km to 226 km. Yesterday he achieved a solid 193km.

#188 Daragh Browne is 111 km from CP3. Again a considerable variance in distance over the past three days: 110/205/188 in 7/9/9 hours respectively.

25 km behind him is #165 Josie Jones with 138 to go to CP3. 182/175/169 in 8.5 hours each day. Good steady and most importantly sustainable time and distance.

Finally the great #130 David Coulon. Max Leonard has written a book about the Tour's Lanternes Rouges. Perhaps David deserves a book to himself. Going by his tweets, he is not suffering too badly from the physical affects of cycling. He put in a hard stint yesterday but is concerned that he is losing ground to the others. He is dropping off the back a little. With 240 km to CP3, he is 100 km shy of Josie. 186/106/202 in 9.4/6.8/11.5 Even if he puts in another massive ride today he will not reach CP3 whereas the others are all likely to reach it.

How much longer? Well we are already on day 14. David is just over half way. 26 days in total? So plenty of time to watch this race unfold.

I am really enjoying your updates about the other end of the race :)

I seem to remember the tshirt said 17.5mph.

Thank you. For me that is the more interesting end. It is the end that allows me to think: could I do this? Sadly when one sees riders there, who I know to be strong and quick, the answer is not so positive.

Never say never! I'm sure the reassurance of LFGSS dotwatching over you would be enough support to get it done...

Well, OK, slightly less, but still. :)

A week today I start a 10 day ride covering 2000 km. After that I may have a better idea as to feasibility although that ride will be significantly easier in so many ways.

Good luck :)

I am hoping doing the TA in February (3000km in ??? days) will be a good benchmark too.