Does anyone know what is happening to Bailey?

Does anyone know what have hapenned to Seb Dunne after Eureka? He have turned back to the H.A. Brewing Co. (Jax Pizza)....
And what´s the weather like? I have seen some pictures of Saturday, it was rainny... It was cold?

Yep, snow detour.  Just added it to the map to make it more clear.

Looks like Kurt will take ~5 hrs off the record.  That's my call.  Quite an impressive overnight crossing for him.  The temptation to stop and 1) drop bike 2) close eyes, must have been strong!

Thanks!!

Thank you for the information! I´m new in this race.
It seems that he is going to beat Neil´s 2016 record! (In 2016 Neil also took the same deviation.)

IS KR off route?

Who is making the money profits from the Cordillera? If it is not 100% charity, it seems odd to allow soliciting on a sign up list.

Before questioning inform yourself well.

(sorry of my English)
The first thing is to define what is healthy and what not. This can become a philosophical discussion. We had accepted that drinking alcohol, smoking... is not healthy. Nowadays the sugar is the public enemy... Others, normally, people that don´t like too much the sports, say that the marathon is not healthy, or ultras are not healthy... And like this we can continue making more restriction to our lifes.... But for what? At this moment of the discussion I usually think: "Unfortunately live cause death" ("Vivir causa la muerte"). Then I get a little bit hedonistic and I think what you get happy it is healthy for you.
But accepting that it is unhealthy any permanent or long injuries, I will answer to your question "Yes, it could be unhealthy". Some risks we can minimize, but others are difficult to know until you ride an ultra. For example, riding more that 15 hours (real pedalling time, 18 hours with stops) during more than 7 days, normally you are going to do that for the first time in a long ultra (Tour divide, TranAm,...). Then you can experience things that you have never experience... Then the most important is to react correctly and the most difficult thing (when your adrenalin and endorphins are on top), to stop, to "throw the towel".
There are other risks (tour divide) like hypothermia or dehydration, the traffic,... these are not normally unhealthy in the sense that they don´t have sequels (if you overcome them, if not they could cause death...)
Risk 0 doesn´t exist. But if you like the adventure, the competition,... Do it! My two recommendation: Exercise ALL your body (Core exercise). A good bike fit.    

I think that the most important is to go to a good (sometimes dificult) bike fitter. To put everything ok on your bike, because everything affects to the saddle pressure. Also is important to see your pelvis to choose the best bike saddle for you.

The ones setting those records are NOT typically professional athletes... They are very good in ultras, and we have to accept. Someones have some aid with the equipement, OK. But they´ve got this aid because they are very good in this sport, not the opposite. If "Salsa" helps you with a bike for example, only for this, you are not going to make a super finish time. Each one, has to know where is his limit, his time for training and considering all this, his goal finish time. 
Comparing TD with the Tour de France is like comparing beer with wine. The TD is a 20 (or the days you spend) ultras consecutive race, non stop, not resting too much and not eating well. Nothing to do with conventional road cycling. 

The ones setting those records are typically professional athletes -- that is their job. And they have a ton of support outside of the race to help them be as best as they can be. Most of us are not that lucky. We have jobs, families, limited training time, limited budgets, etc. While I like the concept of open classification, and digging deep to try and keep pace with those athletes brings out more in us than we could have imagined, I just think it's unrealistic for the majority of us to keep that pace. It's why most races have categories, albeit they're usually sanctioned events. But the principle being that most of us are not pros.

I have done a blood analysis and my kidneys are perfect. The only problem is that I've got the CPK high. So my muscle are destroyed. I've got the quadriceps swollen and sometimes enormous pain.
It's incredible that during the race my legs were perfect, no pain, nothing. When i finished and the next day started to swollen. and passed 3 days, started the pain. Now i'm feeling better.

hi everybody!
last friday i finished the TD. physically i felt really well and my legs were perfect. on saturday i realized that my legs were a little bit swollen. on sunday i had a long flight to home. on monday my legs were more swollen.and today tuesday i continue with my legs swollen, from the knees to the feet. what is happening in my body? i haven't any pain...

What about the mosquitoes? Are you using any repellent? The mosquitoes love my blood...

Thank you Christopher for the amount of information. This forum is fantastic!!

The drag when the dyno is not powering anything is about 1 watt = nothing.

Thank you very much!

I´ve got a doubt about the dragging of the hub dynamo.
Does the dragging exist when the electronic circuit is open, when you are not using the light or charging any device?

If the doctor says that you are OK, perhaps it could be anxiety?
If you are use to ride a lot of miles and now you aren´t riding your bike as much as you want, perhaps this cause you anxiety?

I don´t know exactly how they decide when to start, but I think after the mid´s of July it would match with a full moon week.

The pace of this year is awesome, but Mike Hall was going faster in 2013. Jefe last year was going faster also, with that poor conditions... Perhaps this year the difference is that there are more cyclist are going very fast, the first 8 are in less than 30 miles.

In the first 10 hours the speed average is near 15 mph. It´s awesome! This is more similar to a marathon race than an ultra!