Atlas Mountain Race

Yep, it's been good dotwatching. Just hope no fatigue related mishaps factor into it.

Listening now. Seems upset someone else is making money from the sport.

977.2 km
913.6 km

I'm sure he didn't go into this untrained though and it's not like pro genetics disappear.

Race for 3rd place is on big time!

Maybe he doesn't have access to the same 'resources' any more

It's out to 5 hours now. Skinny lost time on that last descent, ie he was slower than Sofiane had been on the same bit. With more descending to go, the more experienced mountain biker should have an advantage, as long as he stays awake.

sofianeshl On the home stretch and feeling like a million bucks #amr2020

Still singing

Mattia has been creative/determined with the tape.

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Seriously sketchy

Is there a way of downloading the distance/time data by rider?

What's the deal with Tracey Petervary? She's in the middle of nowhere on a main road, but not shown as scratched?
Looks like she's heading to the finish on main roads in a vehicle (speed is around 60km/h).

Looks like Sofiane and skinny have both been slogging away wiht no rest, but not much change in the gap. Skinny night have wound it back in by 15-20 minutes over the afternoon, the gap looks like 4.5 hours still, though.

As much as you can tell by eyeballing wiggly coloured lines on the screen, I reckon that Skinny is going faster uphill and Sofiane is going faster down. And the finish is at sea level.

If she's going to the finish in a car, she's scratched!
Maybe it's not updated on the system yet.

Amazing job, it was a pleasure to watch and imagine this kind of suffering throughout last few days

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Sofiane just approaching the line now.
James got the gap down through night to about 2 hours. He should finish 8:30-9ish. Jay following fairly closely behind too, so looks like Sofiane was fading - or maybe he only did what he had to do.
An exciting finish! If James hadn't lost that hour with his valve yesterday, it probably wouldn't have made any difference but it would have put more pressure on Sofiane.

I know it's a relatively short race, but Sofiane's approach to how he raced and didn't sleep, and not being hindered by it, seems pretty radical to a dotwatcher like me. I'm guessing it's unsustainable in a longer race, but it feels significant in how you approach shorter races.

It was Bjorn’s approach to the pbp he came first in. Distance similar but times and terrain very different.

That was an insane ride by Sofiane. It does seem like the ‘shorter’ races will encourage more extreme pacing strategies. Just a guess, but I would think it will create a higher scratch rate among the front runners, and also a bigger gap between those willing to risk everything and the ‘normal’ people.

skinny on his last kilometers. impressive race

Sofiane said he had hard time staying awake and that the track was frusturating and slowgoing all the way to the finish. In his instagram.

It' impressive to pull off that in a race like that, especially in the first edition, as you don't know what the route is like and how long it will take. Much easier to plan ahead in a race that stays on paved roads.

Congrats @skinny !

Well done @skinny, what a race!

Except PBP isn’t a race. Officially.

This is true. Anyways Sofiane’s strategy worked great and skinny was pretty damn close. Chapeau both you madmen.

Yes, it goes without saying that both Sofiane and @skinny rode incredible races.