Silk Road Mountain Race (SRMR)

It's Lieven Schroyen.

Where's Marin de Saint-Exupery come from? Tracker issues perhaps?

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I know, but they show on the map but not the profile, so I can't tell what's in between them.

oh weird. Looks ok to me. James: 1,255 km - Lieven: 1,265 km

Kok Airyk pass looks a laugh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyvexDD3czg

Yeah, I got that but I was trying to work out what the terrain was to see how fast he might close in. Lieven is essentially stopped and Skinny's doing 26kph.

Even when I zoom out, the Profile shows only James then Marin. No Lieven in between.

you broke it.

Like everything else I touch.

Even in different browser. Same issue.

Maybe Lieven is stopped for the night? It's around that time.

Yeah, likely. I just wanted to see what was in between them to see when the catch would happen.

Was Marin always up the front?

That’s what makes ultra racing great.
That and hippys twitter account.

;-)

Cheque's in the post...

Yeah Marin has been battling with Lieven for quite some time. They have been top ten, but of course with Dion scratching and Skinny's run-in they moved up a couple of places. Skinny should pass both then Jeff would be the target if he cares about any of that anymore, but Jeff's moving nice and quick recently. That last pass looks like a few MTB skills would certainly be a bonus which Jeff has.

It's hard to tell the road apart from the rest of the mountain.. I really hope nobody has the brilliant idea to spend the night there. Wouldn't want to wake up under a rock.

Would nice if Jakub could take into account UK dotwatchers a bit more, I'm not going to see a bouncing dot before bed at this rate

Skinny appears to be having a rest just behind Marin. Jeff might be a bit out or reach for him but could be worth a watch. Jakub looks to have this in the bag, but that last climb looks grim - ain’t gonna be easy for anyone.

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7k behind Marin

Jakub doing 7kph up to the final climb

Seeing Jay hasn't updated for 3.30 hours and a big chuck of that should of been downhill, guess he is a lot further up the road than its showing

Or sleeping

Seriously??

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Skinny moving after a 5 hour nap and Jakub just getting towards the steepest part of the climb.

I'm going to bed but anticipate Jakub will be done by the time I wake up. Stunning achievement.

Firstly this might be a slight language issue.
But I also kinda get it, my hardest day on TCR was once my ankles were improving, I still had 2000km to go but I felt barring catastrophe I’d make it.
I had to climb Timmeljosch I knew it’d be tough and a bit painful but I also knew I’d get it done. It became a bit robotic and weirdly mundane, on a climb I'd normally jump at the chance to ride.

I assumed a language issue too.

Probably just fatigued, despairing, struggling to face another day of the same thing rather than 'bored'.

It sounds like something I'd write, for the LOLs.

Skinny is 30k behind Kerkove and closing but it's a big fucking climb.

65k to Jay. Fuck I'd love it if he rolled Petervary too.

Jakub just about over the final climb