Transcontinental Race No. 8 - TCR8 - #TCRN08 - 2022

He's doing more like 30kph and is about 36k from the ferry

Yeah I hear dude. and totally agree. Won't be long until we find out the way they are cracking on

So the ferry is 4pm, which is 2pm UK time. Gonna be tight

I think hippy called it above. The tracker says he's doing 30km/h and now only has ~15km left so should make it with a small buffer, though the cobblestones on Road 52 below Turnu Măgurele might slow him slightly...

Pretty likely Christoph will make the 4pm (2pm) ferry... currently only 15km to go, and he's gunning it at 30-40kph with 45mins to go.

Adam is 140km from the middle ferry point leaving at 7:30/5:30 requiring 35+kph to get there. He needs to decide now whether to go for it, or divert to the west ferry that runs till 11pm/9pm which he's 170km from. (He's 160km from the east ferry which leaves at 5:30/3:30pm requiring 64kmph)

5k / 35min

Hope he's got the right money

He's on this fucking road to the ferry.

He can always get in the gutter P-R style.

Still better than Uxbridge Road.

I’ve ridden wore thin that in Holland tbf (‘I’m looking at you LF1 through Scheveningen)

Yeah... but after 4200km in 7 days, those cobbles must have felt brutal.

Looks like he's made it to the ferry.

Yep couple of tracker updates on the river it looks like now so must be safely on the way across.

Looks like he timed it perfectly

20 mins of letting the blisters drain down. Lovely.
(seriously though can't imagine what he's feeling - must be elated)

He could probably walk it to Burgas now and still win.

Ulrich could go the the west ferry and get across tonight if he does >20kph (which he is). Adam, I presume, is resigned to waiting till the morning.

~350k left, reckon he might even get some sleep in instead of riding through the night?

Looks like there might only be two ferries at the moment, which is another spanner in the works for everyone

You know what's worse? Routing yourself onto the same huge stretch of shitting cobbles the two years in a row. #somewhereinmacedoniawaitingforhippyagain

https://twitter.com/LeYetidu/status/1554425609807355905
https://twitter.com/chantalcoolsma/status/1554428909642473473

Depends on water level right now, I guess. Who's got a camera on it?

Video of the parcours from 2 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL-ybDR_uQM&t=715s

Not I

No webcam but the water level seems to have stayed low https://danubeportal.com/waterLevel/details/ROBCT00001G001406790

Looks lovely :D