TOUR DIVIDE 2024 RACE COVERAGE DAY4: All back together

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Published 2024-06-18
Welcome to my daily coverage of the 2024 Tour Divide. The Tour Divide is a 2700mile bikepacking race traversing the length of the USA. The Tour Divide starts in Banff, Canada and finishes at Antelope Wells on the USA/Mexico border.

The record for bikepacking the Tour Divide is help by the late Mike Hall and is 13 days 22hours and 51minutes set in 2016.

Lael Wilcox currently holds the women's Tour Divide record with a time of 15 days 10 hours 59 minutes.

A huge thank you to Redshift for their support of the race updates, check out their website here:
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Check out Bikepacking.com's race preview here:
bikepacking.com/plog/2024-tour-divide-preview/

See a details route map on ridewithgps.com here:
ridewithgps.com/routes/43161161

Over 200 bike packers are lining up for the 2024 Tour Divide. I will be bringing daily updates from the event as I follow the race tracker with further insight into the race route including video shot on the race. I hope I can bring the race to life!


The 2024 Tour Divide race tracker can be found here:
trackleaders.com/tourdivide24


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All Comments (21)
  • @davidravo6247
    I live in Kalispell, Montana, I can’t believe the weather that we’ve had over the last several days. I’ve ridden part of the route two days ago north of whitefish Lake and it was pretty cold and wet. I ran into Ryan Van Dozer in Columbia Falls today. His spirits are up and feels good. still cool weather, two weeks ago you would have no idea that our temperatures would drop and rain and snow would make its way in
  • @rneillmojo
    Yo Josh arrived Whitefish after the divide pass there was 28F dippin dot sleet and wind. Cold and happy but out of abundant caution in taking a day off to rest. Gave my winter gloves to a young rider who was ill prepared for the Canadian variable winter conditions. cheers from paradise
  • I love this event. So many variables and curve balls. Respect to anyone who gets to the start line. Who knows what will happen in the next 11 or so days. Great showing by the women. 👏
  • @kevingray4212
    Keep an eye on the BIG inspiration of the race… JAY HEFNER! An incredibly inspiring individual! A feel good story in and of itself! Rode his bike from Tennessee to Banff to race. A rookie rider..he faced Canadian headwinds..enough said 😃🚴🙏🏽
  • @davidp7414
    I look forward to your coverage every year, thank you
  • @RB-mn5ix
    I wake-up looking forward to your updates. These are the best. Safe travels all.
  • @mycoolcar
    Thanks Redshift for being part of this, I like your products! And thanks Josh for the coverage.
  • @apyatez896
    Thanks for the updates. Really informative and gives an insight of the toughness of everyone taking part, not just the elite riders .
  • Great update again, Josh. Good to see LtD is leading the race for the moment. He is one tough Dutchy!!
  • @puremana
    Awesome to know people like Max are out there.
  • @devonport68
    Really enjoying the updates again this year 👍
  • @cypriano8763
    was in fernie last night, the weather was abolutely attroce. snow at 1500m. nasty
  • @fpeter01
    Imagine being a participinant and you see those pictures from the first riders. I would quit in the next town. ^^
  • @dyadyaBOB
    Meaghan pace is very strong. Hope she can keep it up🇨🇦
  • The race leaders are going to hit the peanut butter on Bannock bench Road from the storm that just went through. Going to be interesting to see how they approach that section . Great job on the updates!
  • @arne_cc
    LTD is all about that regular sleep schedule and ride a bit harder during the waking hours
  • @egalegal2058
    Thx Josh! Justinas push seems to not work out, but didn’t backfire either. Maybe it wasn’t even a push, but his “normal” driving. He seems to do similar rest times just more often and in weird places compared to Uba. Laurens sleeps a little more. But all together they seem to be equally impressive strong. Prediction for day 5: Justinas will go first just before sunrise. Uba and Laurens will sleep till a little after sunrise. Hopefully they don’t get stuck on Bannak Road and leave Lima more or less together. They will continue to Island Park, where they sleep. The next push (likely by Justinas or maybe Uba) will wait till the end of day 6 between Togwotee and Union Pass. Long term prediction: They will stay near to each other until Laurens makes the big and winning push somewhere in the middle of New Mexico on tarmac. Or the heat will end his winning hopes in that case who ever recovers faster from the shared illness will make the winning push in the Gila Forest