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If you still want to charge with your dynamo, be aware charging things like your phone or GPS directly (rather than using the dynamo to charge a power bank then using the power bank to charge your device) may damage them.

Also, it will likely take all day to charge a 10,000 mah power bank from empty (or that might reflect the speed I ride at!). I have tried taking two 10,000 mah power banks and leaving one charging off the dynamo during the day and using the other to charge phone and Wahoo.

I wonder how radical the route changes will be?

I would quite like to see your list. Might lift the spirits a bit!

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Its not that hard. It is a great scenic route though and well worth doing.

I should be. You?

Mine was sudden. I had had a pretty good day in Serbia and it came on quickly as I went into Croatia. I read Felix's blog again last night. He continued for some time when he couldn't actually see the road, something I wouldn't consider. I did try to ride after it had set in, but found it got worse and I had to take a brief break after even less than a km so it was clear then that I couldn't have continued.

I still have quite a bit of stiffness and discomfort when I ride. Will take it quite easy on bike for next week or so to see how much better it is after that.

Thanks Frank! Sorry it happened to you too. Going to look at lots of different things to attempt to remedy it. Have you felt any neck discomfort in your post TCR riding?

Yeah, maybe. I rode very little in the three weeks prior to the start though as thought this would be useful. Also wanted to ensure route was as good as it could be.

Oh yes, that's for certain!!! You?

Okay, thanks for your advice. I think I do get a little tense so will work on this and position and have another look at physio.

Well, try to work on some more strengthening exercises, increase core exercises. Might see how to raise my bars a little and tinker with my position on the bike. There is not much info on the subject so hard to know exactly what will work.

I averaged I think around 230km a day so too low really. I wanted to do 280km to 300km. I was planning to increase the mileage by starting around 4am so I could do around 150km before it became really hot which I think was a good plan but unfortunately I didn't get to implement it.

Actually 250km over first 5 days before neck issues set in so not fantastic but not terrible either.

Yes, they are but I felt they were high enough that this was not a problem.

First few days were fine. Quite hard but, you know, it is supposed to be!

Thanks for your advice.

I suspect I probably do look out of the top of my eyes. Might this contribute to it? I did wear the race cap but the peak was up most of the time unless the sun was especially bright. Presumably you mention this because with peak down it makes you hinge your neck.

Helmet weighs 280g. I have a helmet light mount but only attach the light when stopped and setting up bivy stuff.

Some exercises were specific to neck, others for overall body strength.

I slept around five hours a night, three on one occasion but I had little or no sleep the night before the race for sone reason!

I have had a bike fit which mainly related to shortening the stem, they didn’t go into reducing the weight my head was holding.

Rather embarrassingly it is the third time!

I did about 9,400km between Jan and the race start on the same bike.

I have been doing sone work with physios as well as using kettlebells and a resistance band. Going to try to increase the heaviness of weights.

I wore contact lenses and Oakley jawbreakers.

I would change position quite often like between tri bars and hoods and was not on the tribars that much. I probably didn’t stretch as much as I could have though.

I am okay. Pretty gutted I wasnt able to finish again. Trying to think of solutions to shermers neck issues. How are you? Well done on finishing by the way!

4am UK time. 6am Bulgarian time.

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Can you not mount it on the seat stay? I used inner tube and electrical tape to pad out the mount which is designed for a seat post.

I had those hiplok ones or an earlier version last year and two pronged key bit snapped off after 3 days or so. This looks a bit like a better version so might be okay.

Okay, I see. Strange it still says updated in April.

Last year the Slovenian checkpoint was not on the parcours either.