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Yeah, hi. I was riding somewhere in Lapland when hippy had posted that video.
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Obviously. I am interested.
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Oh, apologies for repost. I was quite busy that day indeed.
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Quite interesting interview of Abdullah before the start: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=605939649926625
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But anyway, it's interesting that races like SRMR are getting bigger. As it's less like a bike race and more about surviving. Like ITI kind of. Though ITI is kind of too weird, a bike race with the average speed of walking.
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Yeah TAT looks great!
And it seems there'll be two races in Morocco, Morocco bike adventure Andy is organizing this october and Atlas mountain race in 2020. The latter is sponsored by Pedaled and will probably be a bigger event.
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The splash comes from something more than just mtb vs. road. Andi is also now organizing a race in Morocco, somewhat exotic but easily reachable location seems good, I think the route is fahionably gravel/allroad for a big part. But still no one talks about it. It hasn't been marketed much though, which kind of makes it look like a nice mysterious unorganized true grassroots event. Maybe too much so.
I'm expecting to see more adveturous ultraraces that include gravel/allroad/whatever. Or hoping. Though that has been the direction for the big events, TCR, NCT, the new Bike non-stop across the states. Looking at a map, it would seem simple to make a gravelroad alternative for the Indypac, there's one gravelroad going through half of the country along a railway etc.
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Thanks all! Yeah that was a good ride. I'll write more later.
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As if there wasn't enough dots to watch, I came up with my own adventure, riding across Finland as fast as I can.
As much as I like event that have lots of unknowns, hike-a-bikes and all that, this should be very much straight forward. Distance is about 1440 km, not long but not short either. That's somewhat new for me too, optimising things on a ride of this length.
I'll leave on Monday. Can't wait to ride through Pohjanmaa and Lapland.
https://samulimaekinen.wordpress.com/2019/05/27/pohjanmaan-kautta/
Apparently Jani Simula is riding somewhere behind Omar, but his tracker is dead. https://m.facebook.com/groups/524758520982933?view=permalink&id=2258379067620861