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

Just passed the forest and shes on the Roc, such a beautiful parcours. I rode it at about the same time of day for breakfast in Brest.

Fiona should be finished within the hour. 10km out as the crow flies!

She's almost at the bridge!

Chapeau Fiona!

This is the nightmare moment when someone with a broken tracker appears unexpectedly at the finish.

Bouncing confirmed

The dot, it is bouncing.

Bouncing dot. Amazing ride.

Bouncy bouncy! What a ride!

Historic ride. Chapeau

Brilliant. Simply brilliant

Incredible ride Fiona!

Well done Fiona Kolbinger.
Winner of this year's @transconrace She had a 120-130km advantage over 2nd place for several days, but extended it to around 200km by riding through the last night while others slept. I expect that was a very tough night to get through.

This looked so smooth on Strava!

As much as I enjoy the social media work some do (skinny was so good last year!),
I like that she was, apart from a well structured strava, not visible online.

Fiona Kolbinger has won TCRNo.7 in a time of 10 days, 2 hours and 48 minutes.

But as always with Fiona, those numbers only tell half the story.

For the rest, you have to look at how she rode. She has raced TCRNo.7 on her own time and at her own pace – never chasing, simply outlasting every other competitor. For the first 9 days of racing, Fiona never looked anywhere close to her limit, the first cracks only beginning to show on the final push through the dark. “Last night,” she said, “was too long, too dark and too grim.”

And yet, she admits at the finish “…I think I could have gone harder”.

Fiona is not the first woman to excel in the world of ultra-endurance cycling, and while having our first female winner is a landmark moment for the Transcontinental Race, it is not the remarkable part of this story.

What is remarkable is that she won the TCR as a rookie, in her first-ever bike race and without ever really breaking a sweat.

I missed the “fly on the wall” experience SM would have provided, but also appreciated especially in this age of “influencers” that she was just cracking on and bossing it, rather than showing it off.

Smashed it first go, massive chapeau. Incredible ride, at times it appeared (from the outside at least) like she wasn’t really having to go that deep.

Crazy good ride from FK. She was composed throughout.
Ben may not have the energy to fend off Job now.

Amazing ride for a ultra racing novice, well done!

a very classy win. massive respect to Kolbinger

Congratulations Fiona ! Brilliant ride !

Glad I woke up in time to see Fiona’s dot cross the line. What an amazing ride!

Guess the question now is can Ben hold off Job?

Amazing work! Very impressive ride, congrats to Fiona, and everyone else still out there!

Congrats! Well fucking impressive.

There was a moderate distance between Ben and Job last time I checked, guess it's down to rest stops and sleeps.