Dot watching...
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Waking every hour during the night to check on progress....now at 5am only 68k straight line distance to the finish, or in reality a few Km for the final parcours, an est. 75km section of road into the finish where we’ll be waiting. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
A big push through the night with over 24hrs in the saddle, with absolutely awful weather last night, I can’t imagine how cold, wet, knackered but tantalisingly close G must feel!
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Hopefully only a few more hours to go! Please may sunrise bring some sunshine!
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*TCR UPDATE*
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For those of your wondering how G is getting on, she is now making her way up through France having gone through the final control point up Alpe d’Huez. Taking a longer, but it seems faster route further north through Switzerland took her from 4th woman through CP3 to 3rd through CP4. Still, she put in a 390km day for that!
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She sounds healthy in herself and is still problem solving & puncture fixing to keep that momentum up, despite the fact she’s been on the go for 11 days and covered roughly 3,400km so far...
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This is a hugely inspirational ride; I’ll be wishing the best mechanical luck for this final push through France! 📸 1: Burgas, Bulgaria.
📸 2: a screenshot of G’s strava!
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The most exciting part of our summer starts tomorrow morning!! @g.h.brown is registered and doing the final bits of admin for the Transcontinental Race, a self-supported bike race across Europe. •
Starting in Burgas, Bulgaria, the riders will navigate their way via four control points as they cross Europe, finishing in Brest on the west coast of France. •
Months of route research & planning have gone into deciding how best to tackle the distance, and what kit to take. No support vehicles, no support crews, just the rider and what they find en route. •
A beautifully simple concept for a race, a punishing distance and a clock that never stops. It will be quite the spectacle. •
An estimated 4000km of adventures lay ahead.
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Follow at: https://www.transcontinental.cc
cap number 134
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