The Lesser Known Women's Road Racing Thread 2023

[RedheadDane]

What do you mean, nothing's happening? My wife was spotted roadside after 21km.

Apologies to your wife.
I hope she hadn't gone missing, and this was the first time you'd seen her in weeks!

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Race stopped

 

[RedheadDane]

An accident? Not related to the race...

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Maybe, no information on the race twitter at the moment.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Apologies to your wife.
I hope she hadn't gone missing, and this was the first time you'd seen her in weeks!

It's good to know that she is under surveillance.

 

[StryderHells]

An accident? Not related to the race...

Apparently they need to wait for an ambulance to pass to attend to the incident ahead of the race for it to restart, must admit this a new one to me.

 

[Savant12]

Apparently they need to wait for an ambulance to pass to attend to the incident ahead of the race for it to restart, must admit this a new one to me.

It just might be the closest one in attendance. I do remember one race pausing because there weren't enough ambulances behind the peleton to make it safe. They were too busy dealing with previous crashes and it just became too dangerous to continue.

 

[StryderHells]

It just might be the closest one in attendance.

Good point!

 

[Armchair cyclist]

An ambulance, not necessarily one of the race ambulances. But the person being treated is presumably on the route.

The race ambulances are behind the peloton, so we would have seen one of them passing the riders if it had been that vehicle.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

We've seen (or at least heard about) similar things happen before, also in men's races, but I don't think it usually takes this much time.

 

[RedheadDane]

Now they are dancing...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I don't think they'll finish the stage.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Re-starting shortly, apparently

 

[RedheadDane]

Makes sense; we just saw some emergency vehicles go by in the opposite direction.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

I don't think they'll finish the stage.

I was just about to speculate about how long they could remain paused before it became an abandonment, but then the commentators started talking about how the roll-out was planned.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I was just about to speculate about how long they could remain paused before it became an abandonment, but then the commentators started talking about how the roll-out was planned.

My anti-jinx obviously worked

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Looks like Shrosbree has not been allowed to mingle with the peloton while they've been stopped. Seems a bit unnecessary.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Sadly I have to be somewhere in 40 minutes, so I won't get to watch the finish now.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Did we see the car with Shrosbree accelerate away about 3 minutes before the peloton car?

 

[lemon cheese cake]

It'd be nice to see constant time gaps and not just an occasional one

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It'd be nice to see constant time gaps and not just an occasional one

Hopefully the graphics will improve over the next stages.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Just seen that GC time gaps will be taken at 3kms to go due to safety concerns of the finish. Just looked at it in google maps and its stupidly narrow and technical. I can see there are definitely better locations in Bury St Edmunds than that.

 

[Armchair cyclist]

Which makes one wonder why the route was ever approved...

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Well....

 

[RedheadDane]

That looked bad...

Well, Copponi won.