• Are TCR race courses always designed so that there are these 'groups' of finishers arriving at the end? Or is this year an anomaly?

    The ferry crossing seems to have resulted in groups of 2, 4 or currently 6 riders coming home pretty close to each other. Could be even more once all the riders currently on PC4 get to the crossing in the next day or two.

    I wondered if it was a deliberate tactic by the organizers meaning they only needed to man the finish for say 4 or 5 hours at a time, rather than have to hang around all day and night? (Or perhaps I'm reading too much into it)

  • There's a start and finish and intermediate checkpoints, so there's always a branching and then converging nature during the race. The ferries with limited run times exacerbated this a bit. Essentially it became another checkpoint.

  • I guess... a checkpoint but with an added 'time barrier' factor that causes riders to group/bunch up while waiting.

    So just an weird thing that happened this year, and not something that's been done regularly in the past?

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