Tour Divide

Reckon something like this would ever get string together into a raceable route for the UK? Save loads of air miles.

https://www.mbuk.com/articles/reader-stories-off-road-from-lands-end-to-john-ogroats/

there's a provisional UK divide route floating around on certain bikepacking forums
it's a bit boring in the middle, but would be an amazing race

https://www.gbdivide.net/ 40-rider "mass start" sets off in a couple of weeks

How’ve I never come across that. Anyone know the people behind it?

Yeah, its the Racing Collective which is a group of people doing cool grassroots races/events all over the UK

https://www.theracingcollective.com/

this is a different route. more boring. less singletrack.

Regardless, it is the closest thing the UK currently has and will be worth following

Great podcast and this particular episode on Nick Skarajew, who's racing SS this year.
https://www.spreaker.com/user/thehiddenathletepodcast/nick-skarajew-final

No there is another race starting next year in 2020. Gbdivide.

No idea who's organising it or the route.

https://instagram.com/greatbritishdivide?igshid=ff4xvnrwhken

just having a look through the riders list and spotted a strava 'foe' of mine!

Teaboy, from Takely,....him and I have had some KOM tussles.....is he onnhere?

Sofiane is mental, no sleep, the vets have had rest and aren't far behind him. @skinny does he normally go off at the start like this? Seems unwise to me, but what would I know, it took me 2 days to get to where he is now!

Yeah hes pretty much nuts. And nails hard.

No sleeping is not the best way to me, in such a long race. Also looks like he slowed pace as a result and didnt gain much ground over the time he hadn't stopped.

Yeah, the ones behind him are now into their second sleep, surely when he does sleep, he will need a good long ish sleep, and the others will gain on him significantly. Still, his pace is pretty incredible...

Josh slept and is almost at the same route mile.
Josh is going well.

Josh is off route, missed turning maybe, I can't really remember that area as I rode it at night...

I hope he realises and backtracks and doesn't just try to rejoin the route on his current road, else he's DQed.

"Sofiane Sehili is still leading and has not yet slept 48 hours into the race."

Lael said she wanted the record. She's normally a slower starter. Wonder what she can do.

Josh has missed the rh turn up the rocky track that goes up and over to the Llama cabin. Easy to do as the main Stemple pass forestry road runs off down a hill and then up to Stemple pass.

How can you tell? All his points seem to be on the route?

Josh Ibbett?

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Doesn't look right to me

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Better explanation with this view. Its an easily missed track. I missed it (bimbling not racing)

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If you're racing, why wouldn't you have off course warnings turned on? He's just wasted himself a lot of time...

Also weird that his tracker has stopped updating

Ahh, thought you meant Kato. Forgot about JI :)

I was thinking of Kato