Ultracycling

Yeah, I recognised some of the names and found some ride reports from them as well. Seems a simple but well organised event.

get an annex please

You don't wanna snuggle?

You don't, I snore bad

I don't snore unless I'm drunk or I've been cycling a lot... oh, that means I snore all the time :)

Tpn trans-pyrnees has kicked off. Cant say the map is easy to follow, even for someone who understands all the red.

Some strong riders, should be a good one.

http://trackleaders.com/tpr19f.php

Pretty chaotic!
I’m guessing it’s a there and back as loads are currently not on a parcours. Would help if they were different colours or had a start finish flag button.

There and back. The long one (pyraneean raid) is on the way back and shorter on the way out.

Yeah took some time to figure that out.
Nice to see Ede near the front early on.

Eww... feels dirty dot watching rather than being a dot...

They started people in waves, so essentially the tracker map is useless. Great.

Its biarritz at 05:30 on a Friday, I doubt it was busy enough to need such measures, with only 100 starters.

Frustrating.

From the race manual:

To comply with French regulations groups of 20 riders will start at 10 minute intervals from the Capra Velo bike shop. It is expected that all riders will assemble at 43.461725, -1.541116 from 04:45 and riders will be called to start from 05:00 local time based on their cap number which will be completely random as this is the first edition of the race.

essentially the tracker map is useless

Ah, shame, and I just spotted that @neilp is out front.

Any other forumengers?

Eww... feels dirty dot watching rather than being a dot...

At last you find out why we do it.

Oh I didn't know that. So you need to know the waves and then back calc to see if the leader is actually the leader.

Ah the gaps are only 10min though so an hour between first and last roughly so it should sort itself out enough to work out.

I read the above as to mean they won’t consider which wave you are in at the finish..?

right, so there is reason.

Still it makes watching the tracker nearly pointless. you think they could have done something to help viewers.

you read wrong

they know the timings of riders and will adjust, said so in instagram. And said they'd release timings after i hassled. But still, it does mess with the following experiance

They might call them out randomly but they could just note that down which wave each number was in. Easy enough to sort out if they chose to. Given TransIb had top placed riders within 3min it could get 'interesting' if they don't. Or maybe they call anyone within an hour of each other 'equal 3rd' or whatever.

Pointless until everyone is more than an hour apart.

1-20 are in the first wave.... although hang on guessing drop outs affect this.

Ah ok

it can't be so, as neil is 17 but they say Marcus (100) is leading...

Confusing!

just been made aware ivan (I can't remember his username) has powered up frrt, superior to trackleaders

https://www.frrt.org/tprno1/