You are now at post 01 of my TCR series. For an overview on my TCR posts, voilà:
01 Next BIG thing: The Transcontinental Race – I’m Cap 36
02 TCR06 – Preparation
03 TCR06 – Hopes, Motivation & Fears (3 lists)
04 TCR06 – Finished!
05a TCR06 – Visual Race Report – 1. Introduction
05b TCR06 – Visual Race Report – 2. Timeline Overview
05c TCR06 – Visual Race Report – 3. Interactive Map
Dear readers and riders,
this coming Sunday at 10pm my craziest cycling adventure yet will beginn. Together with 280 other maniacs I will participate in the notorious ultra-endurance race across Europe:
I will participate in the 6th edition of the by now infamous
Transcontinental Race across Europe (info below)
For now just some little facts and figures. I will release another post about what I’m planning to do here. But be sure that I approach this with a lot of humility…
To follow me, check…
- #TCRNo6cap36 is my personal hashtag all over social media
- Watch us riders traverse Europe on a map:
- www.transcontinental.cc
- www.dotwatcher.cc (incl. social media live-stream)
I’m rider 36
- Instagram: MalteCyclingtourist (occasional photos/stories)
- Twitter: @cyclingtourist_ (Malte Cyclingtourist)
- Facebook: Malte Cyclingtourist
- Strava: malte cyclingtourist – I’ll probably upload my rides each day.
- General discussion and post about the race in the TCR Facebook group and tagged as #TCRNo6
About the race:
Start: Sunday the 29th of July at 22h in the evening in Belgium
Finish: ca. 2 weeks later in Greece
- It is a self-supported race, so there is no outside-assistance or cooperation allowed. (see the beginning of my TCR-post 02 for a more detailed explanation)
- We riders will have to pass 4 Controlpoints that are spread all over Central and Eastern Europe. We had to plan our routes individually
- ca. 280 riders
- ca. 4000km and about 40.000m climbing | each
rider has planned their own route - The clock never stops, so it is up to each rider when/if/where to sleep, where and what to eat | There are no scheduled breaks and no race-service
- the fastest riders will do this in under 10 days! (not me!)
- More information about the race: www.transcontinental.cc
The Controlpoints are:
- Start: Geraardsbergen (Belgium)
- CP1: Bielerhöhe (Austria)
- CP2: Mangart Sedlo (Slowenia)
- CP3: Karkonosze Pass (Poland)
- CP4: Bjelasnica (Bosnia)
- Finish: Meteora (Greece)
Check this map for an overview.
Within the next days I will upload some posts about how I approach this race, technical stuff (gear), my preparation, etc.
Yours, Malte
Cap 36, Cyclingtourist
Next post: 02 TCR No.6 – Preparation
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