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I do think the shorter events like this encourage people to push the envelope on sleep dep far more than the TCR-length ones where you have to get into sustainable sleeps.
Agreed and I don't think it's necessarily good for the sport.
skinny-
I agree, them putting up content on social media celebrating someone who didn't sleep over a 1000km event feels kind of irresponsible.
APN (1000km) had a 3hr minimum sleep period last year which aimed to stop people just trying to ride through, maybe that's a good idea on these shorter events?
Also it just takes one bad thing to happen before the wider news media finds out a guy on a bike crashed who'd not slept for 2 days and look, here's all his tracker info that proves it, this shouldn't be allowed let's ban it.
honk
That is incredible. And the next couple of finishers were not far behind.
I haven't followed it in detail but presumably the podium was decided by who slept least? I do think the shorter events like this encourage people to push the envelope on sleep dep far more than the TCR-length ones where you have to get into sustainable sleeps.
Just checked up on Hippy and he seems to be going OK, comfortably into the Vosges section. But he's 6km behind his partner - not sure if she's got fed up of waiting for him on the climbs, or if it's a tracker updating lag or something!