Ultracycling

I can't find hippy in the list of riders, it's almost as if he's not doing this.

probably not enough pubs on route.

Great - just when I should be starting to do some work, the northern hemisphere dotwatching season kicks off!

Leaders 10k up the road and skinny hasnt registered anything yet. is he giving them a headstart?

Is it staggered starts? A bunch start on a single track trail might not go well

Works for MTB XC races. Just gotta drill it to be first into the singletrack.

Looks like the start was in town and @skinny is still chilling in a bar round the corner...

according to his instagram, he's cycling. And hating on the wheelsuckers.

His tracker finally seems to be working, currently showing him at 48.6km.

There's also a James Hayton, might be a misspelling?

Oh nevermind, he's moving now.

skinny's steadily moving up the field, now in 8th and only 5km behind the leader (Zeno Molteni).

They're riding along the Via Appia, too.

Make that 5th and 3km ...

That Petervary chap is controversial isn’t he?

http://lacemine29.blogspot.com/2015/10/an-open-letter-to-jay-petervary.html

lol... with a soubriquet like Cheatervary you'd have thought I'd remember.

I hope @skinny blows a raspberry at him when he rides past.

Half a click...

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Nico Valsesia 358.1 km Active
Jay Petervary 356.4 km Active
Matthew Falconer 350.8 km Active
James Hayden 346.4 km Active

Go @skinny! Go B1rdman!

Where is he not following the route? Will the orgs penalise or are they more hands-off like TABR?

I expect @skinny won't mind if people cheat a bit - no hard feelings over a beer at the end.
Not!

Petervary has passed him just now.
Actually maybe not, his tracker has not reported in an hour+

Petervary in the lead now - tracker probably just updated.
That cheating take-down was pretty bad PR but I kind of warmed to him a bit after his ride on the Silk Road Race last year. He seemed to win that fair and square, despite having a pair chasing him

Skinny seemed unamused by drafting early on too.

Petervary says the guy skipped the hike-a-bike, I assume it was the hike skinny posted about on ig last night. But I won't check the tracker now as I only have a phone.

In 2017, Josh Ibbett set a new course record of 2 days, 20 hours, 40
minutes…smashing Jay Petervary’s 4 day finish in 2016 out of the park

http://www.bikepacking.com/event/italy-divide-2019/