Transcontinental Race No. 7 - TCR7 - #TCRN07 - 2019

about a 140km gap between them. fiona has stopped on the roadside, probably a flat or something like that

Its actually a pretty big gap, I guess 6h ish. Fiona will need something big to go wrong to loose 1st.

It can happen though.

Yeah, kind of not near anything, moving again now.

Cheers Joe, one thing I learned from you which helped was to carry more water. Had 3 litres which definitely helped to reduce my number of stops!

Italy going to be the slower option because it's all about the food stops..

A good day, finally. Got off the bike happy.
Now feel oddly guilty....

Good on yer - must be a series of massive highs and lows mentally - really well done.

Yeah, as terrible as it has been it’s also been amazing. I suspect the next two days will beat me up pretty good.

#mangiatuttelecosa!

. Above 40 water was horrible to drink after half an hour as it was above body temp, and a real effort to plod on, having to back off effort, etc. I didn't do tcr last year or the year before but, with lucifer, etc, both were much hotter. This year has just been normal seasonal temps. Summer in Bulgaria is always going to be hot!

can confirm northern italy during lucifer was like this. Absolutely brutal.

Fiona's got the McDonald's locator dialled in. Three McD stops, four hours between each.

https://www.facebook.com/KinesisUK/videos/406366699982419/

this is great.

Fiona has stopped not so long ago, while Ben still seems to be on the move. Fiona's avg heart rate was 96 bpm today (ultimate stalking 😂) which means she's both quite tired and also cruising without much effort. I'm sure the same goes for Ben though. With about 550 km to go, I can't see either of them finishing tomorrow.

Distance between them at the moment of writing this, now that both of them have stopped (going by GoogleMaps) is 140 km, so not THAT comfortable a lead as one may think.

The lead is only a short overnight sleep away for Ben - that's if she stops tomorrow night and he pushes through the night (tomorrow). We might be in for a sprint finish (in TCR terms :)) on Tuesday. Highly hypothetical and may as well go the other way, just making a point.

Without much effort?

Shes making all the effort she can! But after 7 days the body does not give much.

Wrong word :). I was looking for difficulty or strain, I guess.

Haha yes more apt.

I struggle to make half the power at the end that I do at the start. No matter how I try it doesnt come without huge effort. The body shuts down, you ca mn over ride it but not for long without huge effort.

#128 with a Galibier from both ends approach to the CP4 parcours. http://trackleaders.com/transconrace19i.php?name=Ehrl_Daniel

A couple of photos:

The start

Ross @GoatandTricycle and I at the top of the second big hill - end of CP1 parcours. He passed me c.1 km from the top.

Mind your head going under that arch Ross

Fiona approx 349km from the finish with a 130km lead. Finish on the the early hours of tomorrow morning!?!

The Trackleaders distance is always wrong, it's more like 425km to go still. So probably in 24 hours-ish?

Sleep or no sleep? What would you do @skinny?

think we all know the answer to that :)
#bemoremike

I've mostly been following the last few days via twitter and this thread but haven't looked at trackleaders as it's a bit pants on mobile. Finally checked this morning and damn... that's a healthy gap Fiona and Ben have over the rest!

Ah shit, Pawel scratched. Sam Thomas has dropped back a fair bit from third too. Ouaja has crept up for a possible top ten finish. Anyone know what has happened with Chris Herbert? He stopped for days then has been intermittently moving forward.