Welcome to my daily coverage of the 2023 Transcontinental Race. The Transcontinental Race is a self supported bikepacking race across Europe. Riders have to plan their own route between a series of set parcour and checkpoints. The 2023 edition of The Transcontinental race is the 9th running of the event and begins in Geeradsbergen in Belgium and finishes in Thessaloniki in Greece.

The 2022 edition of the event was won by Christof Strasser who returns to defend his title. The fastest woman in 2022 was Fiona Kolbinger who also won the event overall in 2019. Other previous winner are Kristof Allergaert (2013, 2014, 2016) , James Hayden (2017 & 2018) and some guy called Josh in 2015.

A huge thank you to HOLYFAT for their support of my Transcontinental Race updates, check out their website here:
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For more information on the race mandatory parcour, checkpoints and my own route ideas check out my collection on ridewithgps.com here:

https://ridewithgps.com/collections/2...


Over 300 riders are lining up for the 2023 Transcontinental Race. I will be bringing daily updates from the event as I follow the race tracker with further insight into the race route, rider updates and stories from the road. I hope I can bring the race to life!


The 2023 Transcontinental Race tracker can be found here:
https://www.followmychallenge.com/liv...

The 2023 Transcontinental Race Road Resource Map can be found here:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?...

Listen to me talk TCR with Sherry on her BuzzAlong podcast here:
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