Trans Am Bike Race / TransAm / TABR

So depressing.

Back end of the course looks like a real slog. Just a few states to get through but it's like

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The profiles are horrific. I try to avoid looking now.

#Pedalfucker

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Held kiwi off as long as possible. Fucking climbs.

That's a tough picture. James and Heather do a lot for the riders and it has been a sad few days in relation to the race overall. Hippy and Darren and the rest still to come: ride safe.

Seems like Marcel didn't relegate himself, he is taking no negativity from the way it has been handled either. Just has been a confusing/sad part of the race recently, it had been a lot of fun since the start this year.

Wet, so fucking wet.

Should've stayed in UK for this bollocks.

Most long distance racers are good souls. He proberbly understands the situation and feels it’s right.

Though I don’t follow fb so have no idea what’s going on.

It's properly nice here at the moment :p

Git

Hippy and Darren 240-275 miles out.

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Looking lean!

Should be very close to last year's time: 22 days, 2 hours, 45 minutes

Long way isn’t it. Nearly 3 weeks of riding all day. Tough.

3 weeks is 21 days. (Although maybe you are talking about how fast you can do it?)

More generally not hippy specific. Some will be faster some longer. Perhaps ‘around 3 weeks’ would have been a better phrase.

Looks like those arm warmers would be able to walk themselves to the washing machine! :)

Looking lean!

If it's not being fat it's leaning--when will he learn?

Hippy pushing through to the finish? After 11pm on the coast, inside 100 50 miles remaining and still moving.

Yap

Whereas the hell will I find beer at 4am

Making him 8th bicycle finisher? Amazing.

Hippy with less than 40k to go.

Teaching me the folly of checking when I wake up in the middle of the night.

His tracker seems to have given up some hours ago. Live tweeting it is :)

30k

His tracker updated 42 mins ago but seems to be doing so irregularly.

Oh yeah, I see that dot when zoomed in. That can't be right. Maybe this is the infamous naval base electrics screwing up the signal/gps.

He must be very close now. 44 minutes ago he tweeted “30k” and he is powering away.