TOUR DIVIDE 2024 RACE COVERAGE DAY11: 'I saw Justinas'
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
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Cade Reichenberger is a total badass! That kid's going places... currently in 6th place in TD, he's also the head engineer at Rodeo Labs and he's only 24 years old!!!
Uba got to within 3 miles of Justinas at about 2.30am. Then Justinas woke up and took off! Amazing!
Justinas maybe has an alarm for when Uba gets too close? lool :D
Proximity sensor 😂
Or maybe Justinas simply knows how long it takes to climb the part he's just ridden and that Ulrich has yet to climb... which gives him a pretty fair idea of how long he can afford sleeping before Ulrich gets there
@@Ignashreckon the bikes are pretty loud and rough sounding now after what they have ridden through 😂
Aidan Lampe won the Race to the Rock here in Australia last year. Great to see him mixing it at the front during a fast TD.
Mate still watching every update. Keep them coming.
15d2h thank you! 😅 so good to see another Aussie laying down a blazing time though!
Ha sorry... gave you an extra 10h there!
Josh likes to work in Roman numerals.
The new rout by Silver City is sad. Everyone is going to miss my parent’s toilets at “flushing meadows”.
Those gravel roads are fairly fast, but get more washboarded the closer you get to the Tyrone Mine.
Love watching your updates! Thanks again for putting in the work to keep them coming daily!
great updates Josh, I look forward to them each morning! FYI--the Santa Fe National Forest between Abiquiu and Cuba are in the Jemez Mountains. (pronounced Hemez)
Josh, love your updates. We are going to be sad when the race is over, unlike the awesome riders.🤣
Great coverage ! Thank you !!
Great coverage...much appreciated!
Abiquiu to Cuba is the Jemez mountains. Abiquiu is pronounced: a·buh·kyoo. And yes, this is the biggest climb of the route.
Love your commentary, looking forward to what comes next. Wonder how Ana is doing? Thanks again.
As both leaders are approaching in very close proximity to each other, the delay in starting time will also be a factor. Justinas has about 1h4min less total time than Uba. The final stretch is fast riding, so Uba would need to get some 13-15 miles ahead of Justinas to win. I still believe he can do it...
There's another thing most people commenting on here seem to be neglecting: how they manage their sleep. And if you take a close look at their race flow you ll see that since they slept in Platoro (around 3,5 hrs for both of them) Justinas stopped more often for power naps or longer sleep periods than Uba, and yet he's still ahead by 50 miles as I'm writing this comment. So he basically rested more while still managing to maintain his lead and even increasing it a bit. If you look at both their lines in the race flow tab, you can see that Justinas line is more vertical than Ulrich's (which means he's progressing faster) yet with more or longer flat / horizontal sections, which means he rested more.
Focusing only on distance and neglecting all other data gives a wrong picture of the actual situation in the race
that's wrong. they started at the same time. to me it looks like total time is the sum of run and rest, and those numbers are not 100% accurate!
@@TheNicnice interesting. I assumed that the one hour difference has to be added. Also at the start, Justinas dot was not moving for a long time, but maybe it wasn't turned on. Is there anywhere to see who started in which group?
@@TorgeFischer yes, must have been some tracker issues. looking at Justinas full history page you see the first ping at 08:24:02 AM at mi 16.6 - Ulrich tracked at 08:20:45 AM at mi 16.1. Would assume they were near together.
@@frkttt7231 I don’t think that is correct. I examined all stops and Justinas has fewer hours of sleeping and napping. The more stoppage time is only due to a lot of 20-30 minute breaks for eating, getting water, seeking rain shelter or using the bathroom. Uba had no stops except for resuply and sleep until the technicial problems today. Also Justinas stopped more and longer for resuplies. The time for true rest was way higher on Uba‘s side.
Even more impressive Justinas left Abiqui way ahead of Uba. I like the fact, that a more chaos driven strategy can be the winning one. It’s so said, we probably won’t get an interesting finish, because of Uba‘s technical problems.
I'm totally subjective but it looks like LtD is riding way faster then the first two guys since he's been sleeping good hours during the night. If not mistaken his average speed has increased by a mile last two days. He could even get within 100 mile range of them. (75hrs doing 1 mile per hour faster= 75 miles).
Yes you probably are totally subjective... to the point that you seem to be focusing only on speed and distance and overlooking all other data that might be as relevant and even more.
Laurens reached Del Norte 26 hrs after Justinas, and crossed New Mexico border 28hrs after him( just an hour ago...) so he lost another 2 hrs on both Justinas and Ulrich.
Let's see when he will reach Cuba...
@@frkttt7231 it looks like that's due to his sleeping longer just before the border.
@@alexandermascini9500 He sleeps longer each and every day, and each and every day he gets further behind
I am fascinated by the single speed riders, are they allowed to carry multiple cogs in their kit or is it just one and done for the entire race?
Just the one gear for the entire race... so they have to choose wisey!!
@@joshibbett That is so impressive, thank you for the reply 👍
At this point just over 300 miles to go for JL with a long time since last rest. I wonder if he is just going for it from here. But there is a 70+ mile gap. Seems JL can rest safely for 3.5 hrs and still pull off a win. UB has no luxury.
Is it a reliable tactic to be phoned by somebody at home when your adversary is waking up? Or the lack of service coverage makes it impossible? Is it even against the rules?
We've seen before people having social media teams to send their pictures and write posts about the races so it could be a tactic. I don't think it is against the race, but probably pretty hard to do when you riding in the mountains with bad coverage like you said.
The schould get rid of the highway sections and more dirt and singletracks make it more offroad that it is now
Feel free to work up and propose a route!