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Day 4 is done and dusted Kraig Pauli and Ben Davies are still duelling out the front of the pack putting in herculean efforts every day. Currently, they have travelled 240 miles today with about 11,000 feet of climbing. In total these 2 riders have travelled approximately 1100 miles and over 51,000 feet of climbing. The time off the bike has been only about 4 hours for Pauli whilst Ben has had about 5 this has lead to Pauli extending his lead to about 35 miles.
Edward Tapp made it into Lolo MT last night and is sitting at 950 miles he is only trailing the lead pair by 150 miles but has had far more time off the bike this may come into play in week 2 of the race when exhaustion hits the front runners. Loïc Nys Taymans, Vincent Beaulieu and John Bell are all around the 850 mile mark with Bell having made up the 30 miles to Beaulieu, these 3 will be in MT today but have the Lolo pass to contend with. There is a large contingent of riders in 600 to 800 miles all making their way into and through Idaho.
Alicia Baldwin (400 miles) has recovered from her bad day and is making steady progress back to the pack. Kate Ankofski at 660 miles has moved away from De'anna Caligiuri at 610 miles with Ashleigh Myles further back at 490 miles.
Thomas Camero the Lanterne Roug rested yesterday and remains at 165 miles hopefully he will be feeling rejuvenated this morning. Currently, there have only been 6 scratchings so the field remains strong the last rider to scratch was Eric Schuman yesterday morning.
Today the leading riders will be heading over the continental divide a number of times as they make their way into and through Yellowstone National Park and into the Grand Tetons. 2 Major climbs await them with the largest elevation being 8391 feet at the exit of Yellowstone in the Teton Range. They will get a view of what lies ahead earlier in the day from the Madison Valley Lookout. I am sure their Goal will be the base of Two Ocean Mountain The toll on their body at this high elevation will be enormous (“What this really means is that you will have to breathe faster and your heart will have to beat quicker to get the same amount of oxygen. You will feel short of breath, get tired faster and you will not be able to exert yourself to your normal level.”)
With a few days of climbing still to come and the heights getting higher and higher as they cross the Rocky Mountains the final summit of the Rockies at around 11,000 ft is drawing closer and the winds of the flat lands will be a calling.