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This is an epic single stage race across Australia from Freemantle to Sydney - 5500km.
11 days in, after 4700km, the two leaders Kristof Allegaert (3 time winner of Transcontinental) and Mike Hall (the organiser of that race) are less than 4km apart. Both have been unbeaten in years and it looks like one will lose that record
You can follow it here. There is a 800km "sprint finish" coming up...
Mike has had three different chances to study how Kristof performs in race conditions. I would love to know how tactically Mike has approached this race!
Less than a kilometre between them when I checked; they must be able to see each other at times now.
EDIT: In fact, did Mike just overtake Kristof?
Listened to this podcast. they reckoned at the end that this is already further than Kristof has ridden before in one go. Also that he tends to eat less than the others and loses bodyweight over the course of the race. For that reason one of the contributors favoured Mike...
Though Kristof has had more recent sleep.
Impressive ride by Sarah Hammond in 3rd. She was hoping they'd box each other to a standstill.
A quote I liked that has been applied to this.
"90% of it is mental. The other 10% is in your head"
Mike has been in the lead for 12 hrs. At the minute their transmitters send their locations every 15-30 mins. they are out of sync, so the lead "appears" to be changing hands.
This makes sense, ta. Not sure how well the "predicted mode" will work, either.
wow- looked this morning and Kristof has blown the race apart. Arriving in Canberra ~1 day to go. That effort to catch up must have cost Mike dearly.
Some suggestion K not going to sleep for the last 1390km. Whereas Mike had gone quite far off route for a kip?
"Some suggestion K not going to sleep for the last 1390km."
I've seen this on PBP but not at the end of a 5500km race!!
Think both are asleep now - don't seem to have moved for at least a couple of hours - maybe due to weather?
Oh no - there are grave concerns that a prominent rider has been killed in a collision near Canberra. The race has now been cancelled as a mark of respect.
How awful! thoughts with his loved ones and all involved with the race.
How terrible
Yes, it's believed that a British rider was killed in a collision with a car.
There is a story in The Australian but it's behind a paywall. However there is an article on Yahoo as well that names the rider.
It has been confirmed on the IPWR Facebook page. Terrible news that I didn't want to believe last night when reports started to come in.
Dreadful: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39452786
RIP Mike.
Very sad. I had worked this out based on the news reports and static tracker just before going to bed last night and was hoping that when I woke up this morning it would turn out to be a bad dream.
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