Indian Pacific Wheel Race - IndyPac - IPWR

Is he talking about joe there? What’s he saying?

Guy came in, very noisily blew up a mattress then proceeded to have at himself where a few were sleeping.

There’s two fixie guys and according to the tracker joe camped outside Norseman so doubt it.

Can see there’s a lot different sleep routines this year, more exposure probably helps but everyone seems to be getting good digs after some sizeable miles.

"Good digs" ... is that a euphemism?

Have at it? During an ultra race? Wow.

After that many kms in two days I am not so sure I’d want to touch it.

Pretty sure Joseph is #nofap so I doubt he's going to go back on that in such a public and shameless way. But then I don't know what riding 100s of kms at once does to your brain...

Maybe it's checking it still works...

Wow, hashtags I never knew existed!

Back to the race.
Abdullah still in the lead followed by Stephane
Joseph has upped his gearing, doing well on the road to Balladonia
One guy has packed on safety grounds after being run off the road a couple of times.
And another guy wins the @hippy prize after doing a bonus 50km after taking a wrong turn at Coolgardie. At the only junction on that 200 mile stretch of road!

There wasn't even a brewery at the turnaround!

Ouch ! That's a bad turn for sure.

Impressed by Stephane, atm, he's cruising. I wonder if this kind of pace can last a whole week..
https://indianpacificwheelrace2018.maprogress.com/?id=13868#

Found the graph view on Maprogress, in the advanced view section. Makes it a bit more understandable to see pace etc.

I made the mistake of watching one of abdullah's videos. I think I killed more braincells in those 15min than a good couple of years drinking.

Dan is doing well - currently sitting third

I watched a few minutes last year during this.

Time I’ll never get back.

Anyway he seems to be on a charge today!

The provided footage from various youtube streams suggests that if you started pointing a camera at yourself and film your monologues, you'd get the same effect even faster.

My monologues are internal and even then my brain doesn't spin near as much shit as him until I get real sleep deprived or something. He was at a gym doing bicep curls ffs, not like he'd just ridden 1000k and was low on blood sugar. Same as durianface, just random shit. It's the kind of stuff that we used to record when we were drunk, listen on high speed playback the next morning and then after the hysterics, delete quickly.

My brain normally: "Hello, is anyone in there... there... there... echo..."

Very good, especially considering he's on fixed! Looks like he's riding with the Dark Knight at the moment, with Paul Chartres catching up.

The leading pair are way out in front though. I wonder how much sleep they've had.

I take it you won't be contributing on Patreon then?

Err, no. I did have a look at one of last year's racer's Patreons though. Mark? The bloke that always says 'wonderful humans'. He had a great interview with an Aussie coach and that got me thinking his content is worth paying for. The vegans all seem to chat random shit. Reviewing what you're eating while doing so is just a bit mental in my book, except that kid that was doing chicken shops around London. He was great.

Maven - https://twitter.com/cyclingmaven

To be fair, I found his upbeat optimism (I think humans call it happiness) too sickening to commit to a subscription. But I did really like his interview with...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3MN_-kmcQI

There wasn't even a brewery at the turnaround!

No, but there is a road sign there, though! I remember it clearly as you don't get many junctions out there. It's a big, wide open right turn. Last year, it was easy to know you had to go that way as that was the way the wind was coming from!

I wonder if this kind of pace can last a whole week..

The answer is... maybe:
https://www.windy.com/-31.082/130.540?-32.149,130.540,7

They are going to have mostly headwinds for the next three or four days, but it is not too strong and, on Thurs/Fri it drops during the day, so the conditions are not really favourable but not too bad.

There's virtually no hills out there so it is all about the wind.

Their pace will obviously fall off a bit as they tire, but the wind will dictate how much

Abdullah on the most horrible bit of road in the world, the pan-flat Mundura shelf.
Stephane in the middle of one of the other horrible bit, the kangaroo road-killing fields around Caiguna. I can still smell it in my nostrils... yeuch!

I wasn't aware he was riding fixed - Dan Welch I'm on about?