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Race Across the Alps live trackingRace Across the Alps: and they're off!
The Race Across the Alps is underway! Even as we speak Mad Mike Cotty is piloting one of his two Cannondale SuperSixes along the valley to the foot of the mighty Passo del Gavia in a very creditable ninth place, 30 minutes or so behind the leaders.
If you're having trouble working out what's happening at the live tracking site than you're not alone: it took some head scratching on our part before we ralised that the little cyclist icons on the map are the checkpoints (showing everyone's time as they pass) and not the riders themselves. Even then it's not as straightforward as it might seem, as rider's names are only at the last checkpoint they passed, so you can't see what position riders were in as they passed. So it's not a few bunches of riders spread out along the course, like we thought when we first logged in.
Mike's aiming to finish in about 24 hours (read about his attempt in this story on road.cc and at www.mikecotty.co.uk) and we'll catch up with him once he's finished to get the lowdown on how it all panned out.
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
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Final update: Mike finished in 10th place in exactly 27 hours - top work fella! and only five hours back on the winner, Maurizio Vandelli...
# Vandelli Maurizio (1) @2009-06-20 10:05:00
# Dörschlag Ekkehard (49) @2009-06-20 10:45:00
# Zörweg Heinz (2) @2009-06-20 11:45:00
# Strebel Thomas (19) @2009-06-20 12:00:00
# Fischer Rene (4) @2009-06-20 13:00:00
# Lindner Paul (3) @2009-06-20 13:28:00
# Ratschob Thomas (41) @2009-06-20 13:51:00
# Huber Armin (29) @2009-06-20 14:34:00
# Settimio Guidio (42) @2009-06-20 14:54:00
# Cotty Mike (33) @2009-06-20 15:00:00
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update: mike is 13th out on the road and still trucking. Just the Umbrail and Stelvio passes to go then
Go Mike.
Flo K
Update: Mike has topped out on the Gavia still in 9th place