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Agreed - it is a race and for people to treat it like that (without them being injured or ill) is to disrespect the race.
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Then they rode at leisurely pace over the next month.
Didn’t they sack it off 2/3 of the way round and get a bollocking on Instagram?
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What these folks did sounds like touring. And I don't see the word touring in the title of this event.
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If people are giving it their best shot that is great.
It's not meant to be an elite event so there are some inexperienced people. Some make bad decisions both before and during the race (as do experienced people as well) and they learn loads from that.
I'm not so keen on people like the Italian pair who did it in 2016. They were experienced cyclists. They went to the muur at the start, then went out and got drunk and went straight to bed. Then they rode at leisurely pace over the next month. They had a great time but, for me, I thought they were taking a place that others who wanted to race and challenge themselves to do something amazing, life-changing, or at least life-enhancing, could have made better use of.