and he's out
2013......?

Bummer. You cut your time significantly last year. I was looking forward to what you would do on a course that seems really fast this year based on the Grand Depart riders' times.   

So...any official time for Ezster Horanyi's new TDR record?

Ignore that question. I just found the answer on the tracker.

So...any official time for Ezster Horanyi's new TDR record?

I've been following (and I am inspired by) the Tour Divide for many years.....this year has been very exciting....BUT... the access to information has been pretty BAD.

The "Tour Divide" website is only good for the Trackerboard with its 'Spot'-ty info which is some time hours and/or days off of current time....ALL of the other Tour Divide website feature that were happening in previous years, were not happen this year.

MTB Cast is great but the riders don't call-in for days....nothing can be done about that...It's great to have the 'human' side of the story with real voices and funny details.

This site (Bikepacking Ultra Racing forum) has been a good source of info....BUT...it's a public forum with opinions & comments etc. etc...... Just getting the straight info can be challenging.

LIKE..... what happend with 2nd...3rd...4th....place riders? .....what time did they turn in???  Their Spot trackers are no longer on the leaderboard......Ollie got first place.... the rest got forgotten?  

Can someone please act as the "News Reporter" on one of the websites and come up with some posting of useful info  (like finish times....or other facts & figures)

Although I have felt some of your aforementioned frustrations, I've realized from following the race for my second year in a row that the TDR is made possible by a small group of volunteers who work their butts off to provide the levels of observation and data that we now receive. This perspective makes me grateful for the info we get and makes me hesitant to complain. The race has no entry fee and no one gets paid for putting it on, so I appreciate the volunteer efforts of MTBcast, Spot tracking, the TDR founders, and others. I hope that your post was somewhat hyperbolic due to your concern over racers' times not being posted. If that's not the case, I would recommend that you contact those that put the race on with your ideas and also your commitment to volunteer to help make those things happen. If not, then just be grateful for what others already do.

Once again I'm curious as to what Eszther Horanyi will do. She'll be in Del Norte in less than an hour. Comfy bed or another 20-40 miles. Based on her choices thus far, she will resupply and continue on. This one is slightly tougher than previous choices in that services are significantly farther apart. Hmmm???  

I'm curious to see if Eszther spends the night in Silverthorne or decides to push to perhaps Breck or at least somewhat closer. Based on her race thus far, she's not averse to passing a room for a bivvy farther on. She's already logged some substantial miles today yet was still cranking it into Silverthorne.    

Ez doesn't have "dial it back" as part of her repertoire.

She is blazing across the country. Very impressive to watch her go day after day. Super proud of her.

Believe that! She is about to pull into Silverthorne almost 5 days ahead of Jill Homer's previous record split time. Wow!

Anyone care to speculate on Eszther Horanyi's finish time? She's on pace for 18+, so she could dial it back and still finish in 19+ or 20+. Even if she cut her miles/day by 30% and rode 100 mile days to AW, she would still finish in 21+. Whatever the end result, she has ridden an amazing race! 

BTW--I'm guessing 17days:18hrs:19mins. This would mean averaging just over 154 miles per day, a pace she seems quite capable of riding.

Anyone care to speculate on Eszther Horanyi's finish time? She's on pace for 18+, so she could dial it back and still finish in 19+ or 20+. Even if she cut her miles/day by 30% and rode 100 mile days to AW, she would still finish in 21+. Whatever the end result, she has ridden an amazing race! 

After this many days of riding together, let alone an hour in a lap race, I'd put forth that the racer parts of their brains already know who's stronger at what.  It's when to make a move.  One likely feels it'll be easy, and therefore why need to start it yet.  One feels it'll be hard/impossible, and therefore won't.  So perhaps it's a stalemate for a while.  Alternately, perhaps they feel entirely equally sized up... and many riders chase better than lead, so don't want to start that drag race yet.  Seems like a tough choice to me.  Also, if maximimizing the size of the "new record" if they're thinking about that, yes it's very far away, but they must at least dream given the pace so far, might be best done by maximizing time at least sort of together.

Sounds like a sound analysis to me. I would personally prefer to see them split up; it just seems more in keeping with the 'solo self-supported' aspect of the race. 

Looks like Eszther has entered Colorado. 

Yes, I do not expect that the two front runners will climb Indiana Pass at the same speed......if they stay together then someone is going a bit slower than max pace. We shall see!

Looking at their recent speeds, they both seem to be just steadily grinding it out on the climbs thus far.
 

Well...It's time for our co-leaders to find out who's the strongest/toughest climber. And I imagine the upcoming sections favor the racer with the best descents as well. What amazing rides the racers are throwing down this year!       

Yesterday, I was wondering if Eszther would take a short day for the luxury of comfy sleeping accommodations. In keeping with her strategy thus far, she chose to let her miles dictate her stop instead and continued well past Rawlins before sleeping. As others have mentioned, this seems to be a key strategy for avoiding lengthy downtime.       

This ride by Eszter is pretty awesome. She's ripping through Wyoming, and I bet she goes even faster in her home state. It's not inconceivable that she could take a solid week off the current women's record.

It is amazing that she is averaging 160 mile days this far into the race. We are witnessing some serious bar-raising for the women's record. She has been steadily going faster throughout the entire race, so I too think she will crush Colorado. 
 

So...I'm somewhat confused as I try to compare Whalley and Money. Whalley seems to be farther along the Sobo route, yet Money's stats show him averaging 190+ days on the Nobo course. Whoever is in the lead, the men's record looks to be in jeopardy. This is my second year as a blue dot junkie and this year's race has been much more intriguing. I so hope that the racers get to complete the course without facing the numerous reroutes that led to last year's race not being added to the GC. We may get to see multiple records broken by more than one rider in each category. Lastly, Eszther Horanyi is gaining speed. She appears to be experiencing what I've heard several racers describe as getting TDR fit during the TDR. The women's record will likely be much closer to the men's when she finishes.   

Eszther Horanyi continues to crush it! For a few days her miles per day avg. was slowly dropping. She has been steadily increasing her pace, however, and is now at a 150+/day average.  

It looks like Cjell just took the wrong fork!!!  What to do? Can he be notified?
Lloyd "his ride to Antelope Wells".

Based on my reading of the rules, I would say 'no way'. I'm pretty sure that navigation assistance from anyone other than trail locals or other racers is forbidden and can lead to relegation.   

Earlier on this strand, I predicted a sub 20 women's record by Eszther Horanyi. That might still happen but in looking at the record splits I noted this. Men's--17+ Tandem--18+ SS--19+ Based on that, a 20 day and some odd hours women's record would be both aesthetically pleasing and make the records easy to recall.     

Wow! Eszther Horanyi pulled into Island Park over two days ahead of the women's record split. Additionally, she was ahead of the tandem and SS record splits. Wow!