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Was just looking at Peter Andersen, remembered the name from last year - he was an early front runner until he dropped out after 3 or 4 days(?)
Squaredisk-
Yes, just watching last year's replay.
Appart from a long stop in Flintrock (which cost him several places) he was a regular in the top 1-5 through Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming. It looks like he stopped in Walden in northern Colorado for several days and his tracker seems to move off course into the mountains to the west of there before cutting across to Denver. The replay tool never shows him finishing but if you look at his own personal page it looks like he took a few weeks off the bike before returning to ride and ultimately finish the route on the 19th August.
ewanmac
Agreed, I can understand the logic behind aero wheels and hat (even if the practicalities might work out differently) but surely the aero benefit of the actual frame (all else, especially position, being equal) is pretty marginal when compared to a road bike. Plus it looks like he's carrying almost nothing... I'd like to see a full kit list.
On another note, is it too early to get into speculation about sleep patterns? Peter Anderson is only 45km behind the leader but seems to be the only one of the front group to have managed two substantial (5hr) sleeps.
EDIT just looked at the race flow page and I must have been mis-reading the speed/time plots... several people are on regular sleep patterns.