Transcontinental Race (London - Istanbul) - #TCRNo4

The beer and food without moderation of course!

Grooming alert.

Santa Maria or GTFO >>>

Yo dude, you've pulled!

11 and 111 seem to have taken the option of working together rather than continuing as individual racers. Would be interesting to know what led them to take that choice. I think they teamed up as they entered Albania, then their trackers stopped being reported, just re-appeared.

Ultan is caning it for 3rd - keep at it!

I reckon Ult will catch the guy for 3rd.

Go Ultan!

I will happily chip in to the 'buy skinny beer and food' situation. Won't even ask any questions.

Don't judge me by your standards. I'm not a politician.

what time is podium ceremony?

8 August 6pm til late. See page 17 ...
http://reportage.transcontinentalrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/TCR-Race-Manual-2015-Iss1.pdf

Shit or bust time for Ultan.

4th place for the person that sleeps tonight.

Tomas has been going for the last 20 hours with stops of about an hour, and only about 6 hours stopped in the last 40 hours.

Ultan is ~40km (as the crow flies), 2h 20m in time terms (according to passing near Necatiye), behind and has been going for the last 15 hours with about an hour stop, and before that he had a luxurious (but probably not that relaxing) 11 hour stop.

Gonna be close.

Luckily family/work/life prevent me from doing something like TCR.

I predict a @Greenbank on the start list next year.

No thanks.

MR24TT, VLM (if ballot) and IM Wales in 2016, LEL in 2017, and PBP in 2019. (Want to see what the last two are like with gears...)

Don't have time for anything longer than that.

What's VLM? Might see you on LEL if PBP goes ok.

I make time for racing - other stuff is less important (patient missus, no kids). I'm not sure I want to spoil a nice holiday by trying to kill myself so I'm still a bit ummy and arry about TransAm. Pretty cheap way to eat my way across the US though. :) RAAM, if someone else pays the bills and organises it all.

Virgin London Marathon

#iamnotbuiltforrunning

http://felixwong.com/2015/08/my-experience-with-shermers-neck/

@skinny

I think my neck was close to 100% normal after 10-14 days, but it is
hard to say for sure especially since I have not ridden a bicycle
since finishing the race in Yorktown five weeks ago.

That's encouraging.

Looks like 4th for Ultan, he's still 40km out and Tomas was 8km out with his last update 23m ago so he should be finishing very soon.

Cracking riding from both of them. I'm sure Ultan would have been 3rd or even 2nd if it hadn't been for those pesky kids tyre and wheel problems.

Gareth Baines could get a top 10 finish which more than justifies his ferry short cut.

Congrats to ult though, he's had issues since the start and has kept fighting on. Shame to miss 3rd but to come 4th is great!

And I'm not that interesting, just ride a bike a lot. But yeah I'll answer questions for food if I get told a time and a place!

Ha, good man^

Yeah hats off to Ult. He was a lot sicker than I realised... Shame that he got hit by that cab. He'd have podium'ed otherwise.

Thanks.

I'm gutted. After I'd made the decision mentally to withdraw, a medical friend sent me a message saying t wrap a towel around my neck and it would work as a neck brace. I tried it in the hotel, it worked! But it was too late mentally.

@skinny and @edscoble : I'd recommend Bravi Ragazzi in Streatham (if it's still there) over Franco.
#pizzachat

@cliveo: you're such a fan boy! (but I think that would be a good laugh)

Oh yeah, was that near the Mitcham border? I had them before, they're great.

I'd says it's a little further than Brixton before realising @skinny probably gonna use it for ultra training.

Is just off the high street, behind Subway, Sunnyhill road.

#nicerthanfranco

I know the feeling. Not the Shermer thing but the mental shutdown. Everyone has limits, even except fucking awesome people like you me. ;)

There's only so much fight intelligent and otherwise healthy and happy people can get out of themselves. Sure, it'd be nice to surpass those limits more often but at what cost to mind and body?