Paris-Brest-Paris

They are safe. Everyone that I know/know of personally, they are all safe.

I wasn't going to mention it till it was over. There WAS an American rider killed the first night just outside of Loudeac. They have not released his name, said he was a 58 year old man. From the brief statements it sounds like the rider crossed the center line of the road and was hit by an oncoming truck. It was around 7:30 at night, when they'd all been riding for almost 24 hours. Maximum sleep deprivation time. I have also seen two statements that the rider may be from the DC/Virginia area. But it is really hard to know what is accurate at this point.

I will let you know more when I hear something solid, I promise.

Chris and Susan have both arrived back in Loudeac.

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Originally Posted by salsabike

They are safe. Everyone that I know/know of personally, they are all safe.

I will let you know more when I hear something solid, I promise.

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Thanks salsa. I've been scouring the interwebs since yesterday; I assume they're waiting until the next of kin have been notified before a name is released. So sad.

Thanks for letting us know they're OK, Salsa. I didn't want to hijack the thread, but was worried about the TE friends riding. Safe travels, everyone.

They both rode back to Tinteniac overnight, arrived this morning.

Does this mean they are done?

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Originally Posted by salsabike

They both rode back to Tinteniac overnight, arrived this morning.

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Originally Posted by Catrin

Does this mean they are done?

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Not yet!

Susan checked in at Fougeres just before noon local (6 a.m. USA Eastern), 921 km done. It took her 14:37 to get there from Paris on the out-lap, and I'm guessing she might be going a little slower by now. Go Susan!

http://www.paris-brest-paris.org/pbp...i_participants (plaque #6926)

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Originally Posted by OakLeaf

http://www.paris-brest-paris.org/pbp...i_participants (plaque #6926)

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Hmm. She has changed a lot... :rolleyes: There are pictures in the web site you provided.
http://www.paris-brest-paris.org/Ima...40421_wd-0.jpg

Hah!

The link actually refers to PBP 2007 - but if they didn't update the website properly (on the website for the ride my club put on this summer, despite repeated requests, we never were able to get the web guru to take five minutes to change 2009 to 2011 or even 2010 in about six places), it's likely that the picture is from last year.

Event pictures don't usually go up until a week or so after the event ... but OTOH, maybe that's what 900 km in 62 hours will do to you. :eek:

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Originally Posted by OakLeaf

Event pictures don't usually go up until a week or so after the event ... but OTOH, maybe that's what 900 km in 62 hours will do to you. :eek:

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I certainly hope that is not the case! I was already impressed that they could post pictures with rider names so fast.

Here's the route they've traveled:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http:/...07/PBP.kml&t=h

Deana, do you know why Duane Wright abandoned? He seemed to have been doing very well.

Dunno. The very cute Dan Jensen had digestive stuff going on, and so did some others who may or may not be still rolling.

Chris and Susan are still doing fine.

Seriously wanting an update.... I supposed I could go to the website. :rolleyes:

GO SUSAN! She's almost there!!