More time for cheese and bread dithering.
Randonneurs (randos), use metric for distances; it'll make them feel like a longer ride: rando chat‽
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Bro honestly yes but it was fugn impossible to get a salad and all I want are cold veggies
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anxious to hear how the juge is doing. my buddy from work who was going slower than him is now ahead on the map
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Now back to PBP coverage
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I had kind of a bad experience. Do you want a ride report? It’s going to be pretty negative. Hugs for yes, colbert for no.
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Life is suffering. Tell your tale of woe if it helps.
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I’m definitely curious for your experience.
I talked to my friend B (DNF at Loudéac) and he mentioned primarily he just wasn’t having fun.
The thing that stood out to me in his description was he said it was just bad vibes. Lots of riders cutting people off, blasting roundabouts, weaving between cars, riders touching wheels, etc.
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TC I saw a picture of Mig’s bike
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Ha… this was a similar vibe to the cat 3/4/5 training crit last night that had two dumb crashes on the last lap. Fun!!!
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Hey don’t forget this time - type it up somewhere you can save as you go and not lose an hour of work because the browser crashes.
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I also got the train back to Paris from Brest
@LASER_BEIGE and I had closed our eyes in the grass together at Loudeac in a quiet corner behind a building as our first horizontal rest after ~400k
But that was only for 45min and 30min respectively waiting for the sun to set. Leaving together in the twistier hills I had to ditch him after finding my legs and needing to put them to work
I sat in the cafeteria at Carhaix for a bit running into some old friends both outbound and returning, and ended up leaving with Cap’n John Ende and giving him a tow to Brest, getting Kouign Amann in Sisun just before dawn, the church bells rang as we left
I got to Brest with three hours to spare and sat with friends in the cafeteria for a bit, running into Michael again parking his bike 80 minutes later, having arrived just inside his time cutoff — but we both badly needed sleep
I got a shower and three hours of peaceful sleep, but left the Brest control 3.5 hours after my close time in the peak of the afternoon heat. The next control at Carhaix would be 60 miles away with 6000ft of climbing and I only had 4 hours left before it closed.
I got back on the course to the bridge over the harbor and stopped there. I was passing people with earlier start times than me who were riding erratically and going half my speed. It was hot and sunny and I was quite unlikely to make it within the time limit myself.
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I wanted to get a fancy seafood dinner on the waterfront in Brest before taking the last train, but thankfully I rode up the fortification hill to the train station to get the ticket sorted out first
TGV requires Rinko, and ACP had pre-stocked the PEMCO Northwest Profiles version
The last bikes of the previous trainload getting wrapped up
I was greatly assisted by a French version of Post Malone
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i think my work friend is either gonna squeak by or has called it around mortagne around 80 hours. i’ve sent him some “you got this and if you didn’t get it you went harder than 99.9% of humans ever will” messages.
big respect to anyone who even makes it to qualify for a 1200, let alone making an attempt
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NGL it’s fucking humid and miserable
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The Algorithm thinks I want to watch this and, yeah, I think I kinda do now
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poor fella
he was really nice and only got the camera out for a little bit while we were having pints
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Yeah yikes, he bailed before the first control and ended up with Chicken Pox then got left behind in France. Poor dude.
I’m gonna go ahead and say this was the worst pbp of the modern era. I haven’t heard anyone say their time was great - new guys with that new guy strength and naïveté will always have that.
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