TOUR DIVIDE 2024 RACE COVERAGE DAY13: 'Its much easier to ride in New Mexico when you have 2 pedals'

[@p.stirfry6724]

Again , thank you for all the coverage. Much appreciated !!!

[@rafaeltorres1586]

Awesome coverage, thanks for the hard work! You're a natural.

[@JohnMFlores]

Thank you, Redshift Sports for sponsoring Josh's dot watching!

[@J.Flecha]

And thanks to Josh for persuading me to their products. Loving the stem and seat post

[@CycleXplorer]

Incredible and he's such a nice guy too

[@sandraknuth5766]

Thanks again for such good coverage.

[@mycoolcar]

Thanks Josh.

[@kevincrowley9873]

Its almost 10pm here in New Zealand so Justinas will finish in the middle of the night for us. I will sleep better once he's finished! Too tempting to just check the tracker if i wake up at 2 or 3am...😅

[@jonathankerr882]

Only 12 mile to go, Fellow Aussie in the Philippines 🇵🇭

[@ivarbrouwer197]

I had hoped LTD would have tried to beat the old course record too, but I think he preferred the sleep and still finish third.

[@frkttt7231]

He's not arrived yet (250 miles /400kms away from the finish line) and he still had 380 miles /610kms to go when you wrote that comment. And he was actually sleeping. Also, I'm pretty sure that he preferred to sleep because he realised he couldn't keep up the pace of Justinas and Ulrich

[@ivarbrouwer197]

@@frkttt7231 not sure if you caught on to what I meant to say… the old record pace was still just in front of him and he could have caught up with it just a few days ago. He didn’t, probably didn’t see it or deemed it not worthy, but it could have been something if 3 riders broke the parcour record in the same year…

[@jamesmckenzie3532]

​@@ivarbrouwer197he had issues earlier in the race as well that delayed him. LTM wanted to break the record as well.

[@tubesockets120v]

I wondered how Morton going off course because of the fires would play in. The only thing EF Cycling's recently released video sites is he had visitation on the route which Continental Divide rules prohibit.

[@tubesockets120v]

The Continental Divide Trail is 3100 miles long. Is there a reason the race doesn't traverse the entire length?

[@egalegal2058]

You got 3 or 4 similar routes that are often mixed up. A) the continental divide trail CDT, the oldest route installed for thru-hikers and not really suitable for bikes. It runs only through the US. B) the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route GDMBR. Scouted by the ACA as an bikepacking alternative to the CDT it was prolonged north first to Banff and than to Jasper. C) the Tour Divide, that originally followed the GDMBR, but for different reasons they made changes or used GDMBR-alternate-sections (warmsutter cut-off to avoid a former construction site, Flathead-alternative probablyto spice things up, Koko-Claims because of a washout bridge, a lot of tarmac in New Mexico to avoid mud and wildfires) and never added the Jasper-Banff part upfront, probably because all the riders, the logistics and last but not least the famous starting place at the Banff YMCA got used to that starting point. D) Kurt Refsnider did last year ride as much of the A) CDT as legally possible and tried to bypass the wilderness areas on as much dirt and single track as possible. With only one known finisher I would not call that a route, but somewhere in the internet he published the gpx files

[@jordosimplythebest]

There are sections of that trail that are only fit for hiking and wouldnt make for a good bike race so the bike race follows more gravel and pavement roads to be more fit for an interesting race

[@tubesockets120v]

@@egalegal2058 What is the Tour Divide length and elevation gain for the bikepacking Route?

[@TheKelbymyers]

​@@tubesockets120vApproximately 2745 mi and 160,000 ft of gain. Depends year to year based on fire reroutes etc...

[@brianhall6097]

Looks like Uba and everyone north in New Mexico got hit by strong storms last night. Definitely slowed everyone’s pace.

[@jeanmarcleplattenier2762]

In tour divide are you allowed to draft? or work together?

[@joshibbett]

No it’s mean to be a solo endeavour

[@j.mullen1409]

Fantastic coverage Josh! Thank you so much for these daily updates. GREAT WORK!

[@dyadyaBOB]

Congratulations to Justinas for making history and incredible ride. Unofficial time of 13 days 2 hours 6 minutes.🎉

[@redsank1]

Great work Josh -cheers

[@J.Flecha]

Thanks for the coverage Josh. Great to watch

[@joshibbett]

Thanks for watching!

[@creville9331]

thank you so much for these updates....it great

[@CycleXplorer]

Can't wait for tomorrows now!

[@jamesmckenzie3532]

Just checked the tracker and the race will be won in the next few hours.

[@carlosgaspar8447]

good that coverage is using local time, unlike what the bbc does using gmt and then having to apply special relativity to adjust the clocks.

[@jonathankerr882]

I can't sleep I want Justinas, safely over the line, Aussie Jon in the Philippines 🇵🇭

[@jonathankerr882]

12 mile to go - Justinas, your a legend 🎉

[@living4adrenaline]

What are the average sleep/rest times of the top riders?

[@yggyking10]

Justinas was stopped for 5.5 hours each day, and riding for 18+. That's all of his stops for food, water, repairs, insta updates, etc. not just sleep. The mind boggles.