Silk Road Mountain Race (SRMR)

Altitude acclimatisation is a bitch.

One thing is doing efforts above 2500m and then descending to lower altitude for the night, but sleeping at altitude is actually the hardest part of the acclimatisation process, when the body really dehydrates.

Also, if you're "acclimatised", you need just 3 days at lower altitude (<2000m) to loose that 5% extra blood cells you developed at altitude.

Additionally, there are a lot of micro-climate changes that might affect how you feel and perceive the lower oxygen concentration: a dry desert-like plateu at 3000m might be tougher than a mountain pass at 4000m.

Source: 4 months at altitude in the Andes

And I'm in awe of you guys finishing the transcontinental. Guess it's all relative.

Am a bit surprised he is posting on Instagram. Surely phone signal in remote, rural Kyrgyzstan is poor and data fees astronomical.

View is certainly stunning.

his wife is positing for him i think

https://www.irunfar.com/2018/07/into-thin-air-the-science-of-altitude-acclimation.html

Go skinny. It's great that he's out of his comfort zone and pushing hard at something new while there is a huge chance of failure in there.

Even though I've never met Skinny, It's always exciting seeing a forum member competing in these events.

Still, he must have sent her text and picture :)

Anyone knows what happened to 21 years old lady Vedangi Kulkarni?

Scratched. Can't see any details yet.

https://parinsta.com/m/2111927183987891062_1948438282

concussion after a crash, threw up a couple of times, continued riding waiting for medical go-ahead (this was in her insta story) but I guess the doctors said no ..

its an older picture i believe. and probably smoke signals.

shes on canyon now? woah cool

Instant picture taken with a Polaroid, message scribbled on the back of it and sent with a trained pidgeon (on a small apidura bag strapped to the pidgeon obvs)

lol, pigeon in on the sponsorship coin.

Coincidence? I don't think so.

Skinny up into 3rd. Caught Jay Petervary and dropped him like salsa did.

Zing!

Fucking come on, skinny! Woo

It looks like the shortness of his last sleep helped skinny vs the other top riders. Jay has had an average slower day than the others.

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Dion appears to have stopped so looks like Skinny will pass him fairly soon. Edit, his tracker hasn't updated for half an hour, so that could be well off.

#rep

slow clap

What are you dot watching on? He's second for me!

Am I alone in hoping Lael Wilcox beats Petervary?

That's at least two of us! Although a part of me thinks that he might scratch if he can't win, like he did for the Italy divide