TOUR DIVIDE 2024 RACE COVERAGE DAY2: The weather closes in

Welcome to my daily coverage of the 2024 Tour Divide. The Tour Divide is a 2700mile bikepacking race traversing the length of the USA. The Tour Divide starts in Banff, Canada and finishes at Antelope Wells on the USA/Mexico border.
The record for bikepacking the Tour Divide is help by the late Mike Hall and is 13 days 22hours and 51minutes set in 2016.
Lael Wilcox currently holds the women's Tour Divide record with a time of 15 days 10 hours 59 minutes.
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Over 200 bike packers are lining up for the 2024 Tour Divide. I will be bringing daily updates from the event as I follow the race tracker with further insight into the race route including video shot on the race. I hope I can bring the race to life!
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[@manfrommontreal]

Lachlan Morton bossed it. Record holder in my book.

[@ceindeg91]

Top commentary Josh! Request from my mum to add some scenery. Great to see it on the map but it would be nice to see what the dots are experiencing!

[@saskhiker3935]

I am glad more riders are choosing to get quality sleep. It just makes things a lot more safer for them.

[@JRd941]

Fantastic insight the place to be for getting a more comfortable experience of the Tour Divide 👍

[@Mike-vd2qt]

Thanks for the memories! I stayed at that Ksanka motel when I rode the ACA Northern Tier Route across the U.S. One of the nicest gas station motels in the U.S. which is saying something. Heavy rain and a gas station motel is real living on a bike tour. ☮

[@daveweil6767]

Thanks!

[@roncarr7179]

Thanks again Josh, I can’t go a day without your updates it adds so much to the overall dot watching experience

[@pereirarfc]

Amazing work Josh!! Another year and another great coverage!! Thank you

[@kimswimflorida]

Thank you so much for doing this, it really makes following the race more fun!

[@ffmedic1638]

Thanks Josh!

[@J.Flecha]

Great report Josh, Thanks !

[@Prettyboyskiingonleasedland]

this is the best coverage of any event!!!!!!!

[@ivarbrouwer197]

LTD (Laurens ten Dam) isn’t necessarily in it to win it, he has the objective to win at some point but knows he doesn’t have the experience. As such, he has a bit more gear than most of the top contenders and plans to sleep often, more then Lachlan Morton probably. As long as LTD stays close to the lead with that strategy he might keep challenging but don’t be surprised if he simply lets go: he wants the experience of how to handle this event more than anything to be able to challenge in the coming years.

[@JRd941]

Really liked his set up.

[@jeffhehn8276]

Awesome coverage. Think Meaghan H. camped at whiteish city park last night - not in Hotel on Day 2

[@Jay685]

Good vid, getting loads more fluid in presentation (been watching your vids for a while now). Really interesting! :-)

[@leebarrett4709]

Good, so it is correct to say that the Tour Divide is a race and a route; Mike Hall holds the record for the fastest race time and Lachlan Morton hold the fastest ITT time, surely there is no need for confusion -- Or am I missing something?

[@darringrey4329]

Never thought of it like that you 100percent correct .

[@runjake1]

Thanks again Josh!

[@davidp7414]

Been looking forward to these videos

[@JesseYatesJourney]

Nice updates thanks for this!

[@GoodwinBiking]

Thanks for the coverage!

[@4896764]

Love it! Makes my day!

[@mycoolcar]

Yay thanks Josh

[@FaiscaaaH]

.. Top commentary 💪💪

[@TheJwerk]

Go dirty Dan!

[@joenormal6421]

Great coverage, Josh...as always! Your insight is really superb. As the race settles down, maybe you could cast some light on some of the interesting back in the pack riders. Edyn Teitge is really tearing it up...at age 15! Surely he must be the youngest rider ever, and he seems to be doing it unchaperoned. Is that right? And what's with all the New Zealand riders? More and more Kiwis seem to be making the trek each year. Is there a story behind that?

[@milesteitge1841]

Thanks for noticing Edyn! He is just a baby, and yet fierce and determined to make his mark! I worry about his growing body(repetitive motion injury) and staying fueled on poor quality food. He is plugging away tho. Two flat tires and apparently tried to sew/superglue together a small rip in his tire so that he could set it up tubeless again. Reports his knee is feeling it :( Otherwise, dude is a 15 y/o mid-puberty powerhouse, in a full on race mindset. And the kindest feller too. Last seen ordering four burgers in Whitefish, and packing most away for future reference(Bear magnet?) Send tailwinds, snow free passes and healthy knee wishes…

[@egalegal2058]

Very Early in day three: the three leaders are on the trails, some still some already. Prediction for day 3: Uba will play it conservative and will check in a Motel around 7pm local time in Lincoln. Laurens will pass through Lincoln about 2 hours early and push on to Helena, where he will take a motel little after sunset. Justinas will just be minutes in front of Laurens in Lincoln. He won’t keep the pace in the following pass and then he stays with the Alpakas at Lama Ranch, half way between Lincoln and Helena.

[@egalegal2058]

On the other hand Laurens sponsor just said, that Lincoln is the plan for tonight. I’m impressed by the planing he and his team have considering they are rookies.

[@ivarbrouwer197]

As it seems from day one, it’s likely LTD is intrinsically the fastest guy out there, being close without the experience of this event, but how much does experience matter here versus the strength of a former top ten Tour de France finisher?

[@joshibbett]

Yes I think thats probably going to be about right, let's see how it pans out. The weather could cause some issues

[@ivarbrouwer197]

@@egalegal2058they took a (very?)conservative approach and he will stick to his plan despite what others do, with some more gear and more bomb proof material too. (Mechanical shifting for instance so not to have the hassle of batteries possibly dying)

[@karelvandervelden8819]

@@egalegal2058 LTD not a rookie. He won the multi day race in Colombia.

[@brian193a]

nice work Josh! Do you know anything about Tomas Fabian?

[@HeadPack]

Wondering about him too. Despite doing well, Josh does not mention him for the 2nd day in a row.

[@joshibbett]

I don’t know much about him, doing some research so will hopefully have something soon

[@leebarrett4709]

Could anyone confirm: did Mike Hall set the fastest time record in Race Conditions or was it an ITT?

[@joshibbett]

It was in the 2016 Tour Divide in pretty much perfect conditions. Also at the time Koko claims was not on the route and racers took the highway from Sparwood to Fernie. None the less it’s an incredible time that’s stood the test of time

[@CycleXplorer]

Looks like it's going to be a tough one, not that it isn't always tough 😂