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Looks fantastic! Very jealous.

What races do you have planned?

Which race are y’all talking about? And is it available on gcn/YouTube? Might try to watch this evening.

That Autumn Cherry is one of my favourites!

Definitely on here!

According to my wife it’s a dramatic improvement all round.

Also included are a Specialized Power saddle I’ve never used before

Surely trolling 🤣

@zazkar I’ve not really looked at the volume side of things (I don’t know how much you are used to or how much you can handle), but if it were me I’d keep most of my runs as a mix of recovery /long run pace runs (as is currently in your plan). But I’d drop the hill reps and instead add in some strides. Week 1 would be all recovery runs, week 2 would be as in your plan but during 2 of the runs I would add maybe 6*20 second accelerations.
During week 3(taper) I would add in one set of accelerations somewhere in the mid week.

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How come the 3km rule also includes mechanicals/punctures? I can see the point of having a rule about crashes, but mechanical issues seem like a wholly different issue.

Some people

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Out of interest how many of the fast folk will stick around for that?

When is the party? Presumably sooner than the snail?

Actually live on the official insta page now… from central Bishkek.

I don’t know how accurate the flag finish is/was? Sofiane seems to have passed through without slowing and had now descended the hill into the outskirts of Bishkek. Some posters on insta suggested that there would be live coverage of the finish but I’ve not seen anything, nor has there been any activity on any of the major accounts. Maybe they are just all letting the moment sink in, or maybe the finale will be in the city.

Either way a heroic effort from both Skinny and Sofiane. Insanely inspirational.

Maybe 2300 uk time?

Skinny at the crest of the pass, I estimate arriving just under 2hrs behind Sofiane.

Edit: he says it gets dark dark around 2100 and he wanted to be 10km past the top by then. Local time is now 2200 so he (and Sofiane) are doing the technical goat track in the dark.

Sprint finish into Bishkek!!!

I’ve mostly been viewing the race using the topographic view on mapprogress but can I recommend people take a peek at the satellite view of the landscape skinny is currently riding through… absolutely insane stuff!

What you do is you drink beer then eat kebabs then drink more beer every day until you have the god-like physique of everyone's favourite shitposter.

I’ve no idea if this is apocryphal or not, but I used to know a guy who went on to win many caps for the Irish rugby team. At the start of his career (when I knew him) he was told that his performance metrics were top notch but that he was too lean and would thus be injury prone. His coaches therefore put him on a diet of McDonald’s and kebabs to add an extra layer of fatty body armour.

Anyway #csb

Possibly Sofiane had trouble getting going again after his long rest, or skinny is really pushing… The gradient of skinny’s line is a little steeper than Sofiane’s for the same section of parcours suggesting that skinny is moving faster right now.

Sofiane is currently on a sustained section of climbing which skinny is about to start so it’ll be interesting to see if skinny can close the gap even further over the next few hours.

62ish kg, 6'2

No judgement, I’m just a guy on the internet with no expertise in this area, but are you sure that’s a healthy weight for you?

I’m 6’ and currently ~70-72kg. I’m my 20s I used to row in a lightweight rowing program (70kg max weight limit) and at my fittest I was down at 67kg but I can’t imagine how I could have lost any more while also being strong. I guess it might have been possible since I was actually trying to gain muscle mass to maximise strength at exactly 70kg, but I knew a lot of tall skinny guys back then and none of them were anywhere close to 62kgs.

I can’t remember the details but iirc there was a study that looked at this in runners. Essentially they measured the proportional contribution of aerobic and anaerobic energy systems at different distances. By 400m (duration of c. 45-50seconds) the effort was predominantly (maybe 60-70%) aerobic.

So maybe you could say 30s efforts are at least substantially anaerobic, but I think 60s would be dominated by aerobic systems.

Skinny was saying on insta how he struggled with sleep last night. He had a punctured sleeping mat (now gaffa taped) and only got 1:35, so I wonder if that will play into his calculations?

Continuing my interest in the back markers, are cap nos 101 and 66 actually riding as a pair? They share a surname and an Instagram page and would appear to be husband & wife. Also seem to be riding together (although not much drafting benefit to be had in this photo).

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Ah yes, thanks… I forgot it needed to be desktop view. Sofiane is one of the riders who stopped in Gul’cha whereas skinny seems to have picked somewhere out in the wild.

Skinny’s leap up the leaderboard seems to have come from a difference in stopping strategies. To me it looked like several riders took a substantive pause in Gul’cha @~270km, but skinny kept on going.

Where is that excellent page that lets you plot a graph of distance vs time so you can compare stopping strategies?