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Laurens ten Dam set a brand new greatest time on the continuous Trancordilleras Rally Colombia, finishing the 1,045km self-supported gravel journey on Wednesday morning in Santa Fe de Antioquia in 72 hours, 55 minutes.
For a journey that lined 21,600 metres of climbing throughout the three Andes mountain ranges in Colombia, it was ‘shut’ when it comes to the general win, as Canadian Rob Britton accomplished his first journey on the occasion in 48 minutes behind the Dutchman. Twenty 5 different riders remained on the course after the lead duo stopped the clock, together with Thomas Dekker, who was nonetheless on the route with just below 400km nonetheless to journey, in line with a dwell tracker system.
As soon as throughout the end, Ten Dam wasn’t interested by a celebration simply but, only a bathe, strong meals and being stationary for a superb whereas, telling Cyclingnews, “I’m not going anyplace immediately”.
Ten Dam and 29 others set off at 7:30 a.m. native time on Sunday, February 11. Following the ‘Lachlan program’, 18 hours of using adopted by six hours of relaxation utilized by Lachlan Morton to finish Tour Divide final yr, Ten Dam made his first cease simply after 10 p.m. that night, having lined 269km. He was again on the bike 4 hours later.
On the second section he lined 283km earlier than taking a self-imposed six-hour break this time, and restarting within the darkness at 1:23 a.m. early Tuesday morning. He stopped after one other 300km later after dusk for a nap of about an hour, then pushed on to the end, the clock stopping at 8:03 a.m. native time on February 14.
“I noticed Rob coming so determined let’s make a race,” he disclosed to Cyclingnews on the end.
He had good motive to respect Britton, who final yr set a course file on the Spanish 750km gravel race, Badlands, in a time of 35 hours and 20 minutes.
In 2022 when the continuous class was added to the eight-day stage race, solely 12 riders took on the brand new problem. Two years on, the quantity soared to 30 people, three of them girls.
It was a 3rd journey to Transcordilleras for Ten Dam, the sooner appearances within the eight-day stage race. He completed second to winner Peter Stetina in 2022, then gained the general final yr. He and Dekker are utilizing the continuous Transcordilleras race as preparation for Tour Divide, once they plan to make use of the Lachlan system to achieve his marker of 12 days, 12 hours and 21 minutes to finish the two,670-mile route from Banff in Canada’s Rocky Mountains to Antelope Wells in New Mexico.
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