Transcontinental Race 2026, with spoilers

[Ming the Merciless]

I hope they don’t release allowed ferries too late. Route planning must take a lot of time to get right and optimise.

 

[matticus]

I believe it's started! Social media (generally, and this place) seems a lot quieter this year.
OK: I've given in and found the tracking page on here: https://dotwatcher.cc/race/transcontinental-race-no12-2026
And I'm already mind-boggled by numbers: almost 3 days in, Robin Gemperle is romping away, at an average of 605km/day.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

All the leaders are above 80% moving time, with Robin over 90% moving time,

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Here is tracking in its own page

https://www.followmychallenge.com/live/tcrno12/

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Robin continues with a big lead still. Closing in on the next parcours

 

[T4tomo]

And I'm already mind-boggled by numbers: almost 3 days in, Robin Gemperle is romping away, at an average of 605km/day.

That is bonkersly impressive.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Storming it

 

[matticus]

Storming it

... and now he's done it. 248 hours - shame to miss out on a 10-day finish ;-)

Ming, do you know if the stats on the Leaderboard tab exclude the ferry crossings?
ave speed18.86 km/h*
moving speed 24.10 km/h*
distance 4694.71 km*
Avg daily 452.56 km

 

[Ming the Merciless]

... and now he's done it. 248 hours - shame to miss out on a 10-day finish ;-)

Ming, do you know if the stats on the Leaderboard tab exclude the ferry crossings?
ave speed18.86 km/h*
moving speed 24.10 km/h*
distance 4694.71 km*
Avg daily 452.56 km

I read somewhere from the followmychallenge man that they marked the ferry routes and that is detected and added as stopped time. I think the answer is yes.