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Yes. Fingers crossed the ferries run reasonably on schedule and that bad luck doesn’t come into it. Like imagine you get to a ferry crossing in time but then the ferry has a mechanical problem that puts it out of service for a day or the boat captain is sick and there is no replacement available.

Makes sense. Thanks

Is Wednesday morning a fair guess for when we will the first riders arriving at the finish?

I had guessed it was a glitch in my map and the checkpoint was showing up wrong. Seems not. An 800m down and back again would be pretty tough, both physically and mentally. Especially for those further to the back of the field starting to feel deep fatigue by the time they get to this checkpoint.

Strasser has now joined the the front two. The trio look like they are only separated by about 5km. Should all reach the next checkpoint this eve?

Good pacing of his effort!

Hard for me to tell but is Strasser starting to close the gap to the front of the race?

It would be better if zwift were putting money into womens teams/rider salaries, rather than the overfull pockets of aso, but if this is what it takes to get a womens tdf going again, so be it. Zwift are hardly a UAE, Astana or ineos level bad guy.

Looks like a (flat?) circuit race.

https://resources.cwg-qbr.pulselive.com/qbr-commonwealth-games/document/2022/04/05/7febdb1d-6f51-489c-adf0-c3f95109dc9e/Cycling-Road-Race-Map-v4.png

Is Cav racing for Isle of Man at these games? What’s the road race course looking like?

It’s amazing (to me) that the three leaders are so close together after this many hours of racing. Talk about evenly matched.

Good to know I am not senile yet

Right. Hadn’t zoomed in enough to realise that’s where it was. Is my memory playing tricks with me in making me think there have been off road segments at checkpoints in previous editions?

Some people approaching the second checkpoint. Is the route rideable on road bikes in the dark? (Sometimes in past editions they have been pretty hard off road sections?)

That’s an excellent fact. And an impressive skill set for the guy.

Have been watching S4C (on freesat which is broadcast in HD, unlike itv4) with the sound off (sadly have zero knowledge of Welsh) and then listening to the itv commentary. Has worked well. Except for the couple of stages where s4c decided to broadcast some kind of rural show instead of the tour.

In msr there was a lot of excitement about the use of a dropper. Anyone been using one in the tour to speed up their descending?

How many days was mvdp in yellow for last year? Wout trying to beat that total?

Would leave him free to do mountain duty for rogluc later. What a rider.

Love the workshop photos (as well as the bikes). Who doesn’t have eight (?) spare cranksets on the shelf?!

If only it were a little larger!

Now that crypto is not worth what it once was, any sign that certain watch prices/availability are adjusting back down to more normal levels?

Can wva hang on to win the dauphine? Theres a lot of mountains at the weekend but he did win on ventoux last summer.

That's super

Have to feel a bit for those who have got to drive from Hungary to Etna. Inner ring says it is 1900km by road. Even with shared driving that’s a very long way to do in not much more than 24 hours.