Trans Am Bike Race / TransAm / TABR

That said, if she's a phone, she can find her way out. Unless it's an old nokia. Weird.

She might have enough signal for voice but not data. Not uncommon.

And not having downloaded off line maps is a rookie error.

Experience.

@skinny is ruthless!

I've learnt the hard way, I can be.

These races take NO prisoners, and you have to be seriously prepared. As someone once said to me, you must be the full package, it's not enough to just have the legs, you need the brain.

Experience.

Good judgement comes from experience.

Experience comes from bad judgement.

Not always. It can come from research and thought. You don't need to have the bad experience, you just need to think what bad experiences can happen and then apply a measure. A risk matrix. Proper planning prevents poor performance.

Experience comes from bad judgement

This is a pearl. Plus you make your own luck generally.

The more you practice the luckier you get

The Garmin error does seem quite rookie. It's the recalculation option. Switch it off if you want to follow the route you have planned!

Rules are not completely clear on whether she can have a lift while she is off route but she would probably get the benefit of the doubt on that one. However if she misses out any bit of the route the rules are clear -> DQ
Rules also clear on outside assistance, the people on Facebook should stf up. If she hasn't asked for the 'help' is not her fault though so can't blame her

When you look at her track for the last 10 hours, every decision she's made bar one (when she turned back half way to North Fork) has been the wrong one. Each time she appeared to be on some sort of course, she's made a move to make her worse off. It's quite a remarkable fuck up.

I quit FB (YES) so can't see that group now, but they're do go over the top in assistance. However, the racers are to blame too, for sometimes posting there.

TABR just isn't 'policed' like other races.

Slept deprivation will do that to you and you won't realise. You think you're thinking clearly, but you're far from it. I don't make decisions on route. Every decision I will need to make, I'll have made before I start and saved the answer in my memory.

Each time she appeared to be on some sort of course, she's made a move to make her worse off. It's quite a remarkable fuck up.

She wasn't seeing her decisions through or she was trusting the Garmin too much.

I quit FB (YES) so can't see that group now, but they're do go over the top in assistance.

To be fair, the majority of the responses are suggesting that she be reminded of the rules and that any help that is given could effectively DQ her.

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Kind of funny though, that she's messaging that she's lost in the woods somewhere in the mountains of a foreign country, and everybody's just like "harden the fuck up and get unlost.", just like they should be of course.

Pffft, paper maps are always vastly superior.

Get to town, buy map, get to next town, post map home, buy new map. :)

(Layman's perspective:) Surely if it's 2AM and you're lost in the dark the best thing to do is to have a few hours of sleep and reassess when you're better rested and it's light? And offline route maps is probably the first thing I'd prepare if I were doing something like this, though I can understand that's no help if you become unable to charge your phone somehow.

What a shame.

My thoughts exactly. It’s hard to judge, I guess if you could sleep with the lost hanging over you. Also maybe in need of food water etc.

When you look at her track for the last 10 hours, every decision she's made bar one (when she turned back half way to North Fork) has been the wrong one. Each time she appeared to be on some sort of course, she's made a move to make her worse off. It's quite a remarkable fuck up.

It's very interesting that in each of these cases, the best decision would probably have been 'go back'--which she initially attempted, just didn't go far enough. Since then, she just seems to have tried to keep on going ahead instead of going back. Perhaps that's the lesson that she's being taught.

It's very easy to think clearly when you're at your desk, slept, fed and watered. Harder in her shoes.

Ah thanks for sharing. And yes @Samuli

That’s exactly what I’m saying

ah ok!

Going suit shopping tomorrow mate, decided to go otp/mtm if no otp works!