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Annoying, but they could also just have similar pace and are trying not to let the other get away. Though it would be better to deliberately make a bit of a gap in one way or another. For example in NCT Kai and Steffen were riding so close to each other for some days, that they could see each other on long straights and on breaks, because neither of them wanted to be slower. And when they shared a couple of hotels, the night didn't make a difference either. I was riding close to them for a while too, but when I saw them, I let off the gas or stopped/did not stop there to make a gap.
This race looks so good, why am I not there!?
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Surprising - they are both very experienced.
Becoming a bit like Lael Wilcox / Evan Deutsch.
Riding together for a few hours is fine but I don't believe anyone is that evenly matched and has identical eating, sleeping and stopping requirements for several days.
Of course, it's not possible to see exactly what they are doing from a tracker. There may be a few hundred metres gap, but the fact that they frequently leapfrog each other on the tracker doesn't give any support for that.Edit - just looked again and there now seems to be 10km between them. Looks better!
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'Our first 3 riders have now reached CP2 on the Silk Road. Jay Petervary was first to arrive 18:20 local time, followed just over 2hours later by Kim Raemakers and Pierre Arnaud la Magnan within 3minutes of each other.' 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔