Matt Mustin (one of the riders who shared photos of his bike on bikepacking.com) is shown as finished
Did 14 year old Myca Mustin also finish?

when using an ETREX 30x I could divide up the 140,000+ point track into 15 ~9400 point tracks and display them one at at time (like at had to with much smaller tracks for my old Map62)
will this slow my ETREX down too much?
with the 10,000 point track, last time there was many times there would be a straight line displayed but more than one choice on the ground that did not correspond to the gpx. line

Lots of coaches provide training programs for ultra distance, but do FKT'ers follow any program? or do most of them just ride lots of LSD/Zone 2.
From online bios for North American FKT'ers, it doesn't look like many of them race other types of events, or are working on their cornering speed or how high they can bunny-hop a fully loaded bike. 
I suppose lots of Euro's have a road or XCO competitive background.

Do the FKT'ers just ride lots of long slow distance (LSD), whether 48 minutes or 48 hours non-stop, at the same pace and style?
or do some do all types of bike racing such as , 25 mile/40 km road time trials, mtn bike racing (1.5 to 2 hour XCO, Enduro, Marathon), criteriums (road or dirt), observed trials, bmx etc.?
How many work on increasing their strength and power, or improving their single track skills?

For those that do interval training or hill climb repeats to be a faster bikepack racer - what types, intensities, durations?

when you mount a tire and inflate it the first time, the spoke tension drops >20%
Don't go and start tensioning up the wheel with inflated tire to correct for the drop in tension or it will lead to early cracking around the nipples

Yes, I tried their website, and it says in the small print that they don't mail out permits, they just email something that you print yourself, and because they can't verify the authenticity of foreign credit cards, they don't accept them anymore.
As well, there is only one place in Phoenix that you can buy one with cash.

You need a US address and credit card to buy a permit from the State Trust Land

 

If using tread thickness and puncture resistance to guess the potential durability/survivability of a tire, then this might be useful
https://www.bicyclerollingresistance.com/mtb-reviews?orderby=pr

Hi Dave
Didn't you have tire troubles for your YoYo?

[So what tires are recommended for the 800?]

So what tires are recommended for the 800?

I used 26x2.35 Schwalbe Nobby Nics last time for a 1 1/2 YoYo, with no flats at 15-20 psi, even though the inside looked like a porcupine at the end, also very little knob height left too.

I now need 29x2.25 and use liners/noodles at super low pressure (the vibration damping between 2.25 with liners compared to 2.35-2.5 without liners is very noticeable and very important to me and the nerves in my hands, also the proven run flat ability, I have experienced over 15km on rocky and rooty trails with little loss of speed and no damage to the rim or liner)
Braking ability is not important to me (actually the only place brakes were important to me last time was short sections down Oracle Ridge, so I know low rolling resistance is more important to me)
When I have borrowed other riders bikes to test ride their tires on lower altitude singletrack near Tucson (not Mt. Lemmon) I liked tires with many little tiny knobs with many edges (but Vittoria Mezcals get a bad rating for sidewall strength [maybe they didn't use the TNT version] and for packing up in mud). I also like many tiny knobs with only small spaces between them as I believe that open-space between knobs offers more opportunity for cactus and sharp rocks to penetrate the casing.  

Most important to me is low weight for the Grand Canyon portage, followed by durability (I will start with new tires, but don't want to wear the knobs down to the casing like some Ikons I saw worn to the green flat protection layer by Pine). Although, if I see any death mud HAH! I hope it is near the end when there won't be much in the way of knobbys left to collect mud.

Andrew is about 1.5 hours behind Sofiane's pace. But should get more favourable winds across the Basin.

where is El Pilar?

The rules debate is getting out of hand.

LOL

Click on her picture and it brings the story up

https://instagram.com/zchauderlot?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

the latest picture on her page is from before the start, but clicking on her bio pic leads to a comment about a hostage situation north of Silverthorne has shut down Hwy 9

On top of that some are normalizing sleeping in post offices (as something we all do, which we don't) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeyhsaSLRAe/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=.

I think he is teasing, since he has only slept at the Llama Ranch and Red Hawk Lodge so far

The new Tour Divide icon is appropriate given the previous pages of discussion

I like the new Tour Divide Icon

Yes, planning ahead of time to sleep in public places or fully restocking with water from hiker caches should be discouraged.
Those that plan to do such things are likely also packing much lighter than those who are packing extra water and cold weather bivy gear, so are getting a performance advantage.

As Scott wrote, rules to asterisk/relegate such activities is not warranted.  However, I am thinking of other sports like mogul skiing and ski jumping where the person that stands on top of the leaderboard at the end is not the fastest (as in mogul skiing) or sails the furthest distance (as in ski jumping), but also scores well for style points or technical difficulty (such as many other sports).
I am not recommending devising a point scale for different styles/levels of difficulty (with official judging) to determine if an FKT'er that hoovered caches and hogged outhouses, and was two hours faster than another racer (that bivouacked outdoors in approved places every night, filtered water and only used the Freeman cache, rode to the start, built there own gear, etc.) should have the official FKT.  We already give separate official FKTs to singlespeeders (a style category), and bestow greater prestige to winners of Grand Departs (or free-solo-style or oxygen-tank-free mountain climbers). So maybe there should be lots of discussion on the internet or the real media ahead of time, indicating that style matters and that planning to use outhouses instead of packing the extra gear will taint your race result. Instead of asterisking an FKT, maybe there should be a buzzing fly adjacent to the posted time?

thanks Scott
so does Alexandera Houchin or Mike Hall have the record for most TD wins ?  
But not as many as Mattew Lee?        ;-)