Transcontinental Race (London - Istanbul) - #TCRNo4

Never meet your heroes

#69 on fb saying scratched cos he has to go sort out a flooded flat. Of all the reasons to have to quit that's gotta be amongst the most unexpected. Hope he gets to go again next year.

I've met hippy.

*stragglers is clearly the wrong word. We need a proper non pc sounding word to cover what they achieve.

Humans

I'm always OCDing too. Poor fucker cycled all that way worrying about whether he turned the bathroom tap off, then to find he hadn't.

Stragglers is totally the wrong word. The riders at the back are the strongest because they are propping everyone else up. They may not be racers, they may not be fast but goddamn they aren't half inspiring.

charming!

Stragglers is not meant to be derogatory. Its usage was I thought generally accepted.

straggler
noun [ C ] UK ​ /ˈstræɡ.lər/
​a person or animal that is last in a group to do something or the last to get to or leave a place:
"We watched the last of the stragglers come in, three hours after the first runner."

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/straggler

Conjures up image of tag knot

A day in the life of a dot watcher:

• notice that hippy has stopped
  
• zoom in to find out why
  
• bistro!
  
  

... and repeat.

If it was a pure competition some kind of time limit would be enforced, like Tour de France broom wagon, which would probably make it easier for the organisers but turn it into a bit of a macho wank-fest so I think it's good they let everyone continue under their own steam

The distance and effort is obviously amazing.

But what I cant get my head around is the navigation. I'd be in Egypt by now, wondering why the houses in Croatia are so triangular.

The fact that it is unsupported negates the need for a time limit.

It is amazing how stalky you can get.

@Scrabble fair point. Well made. I'd rep you, but I gather that's not a thing anymore since I've been away. I'm not sure I even remember if it was a thing before I took my break

David Coulon has scratched.

Very sad moment. His ride last year was momentous.

Alex Wright is not last but she has now surplanted David as the particular rider whom I am willing to the end.

Watching this years event has made me want to ride "unsupported" in many of places they've been through.

This.

I am so inspired I am planning 4-5 rides a day on rwgps these days!

Need to find time to do them.
Need to quit job.
Anyone willing to subsidize me?

Currently googling flights to Montenegro...

lol. Tickets for that please

It's bloody expensive, I had been looking at them earlier this summer for a trip in September.. Postponed

Cycle there then!

Lets sort a forum ride to Montenegro. Any early interest?

Need to find time to do them. > Need to quit job.

I would

That Canyon is on the move again. Daumen drücken he can keep going.

Actual yes.