I finally got my entry confirmed for the Etape. The number determines where you start on the day - I'm 6202 but some poor souls are in the 9000s.
The importance of a low number is that it gets you an early start. As people are eliminated along the route by a broom-wagon at fixed times nobody wants to be sitting around at the back of the start line for 10 or 15 minutes with the clock ticking. I guess the worst-case scenario is starting at the back and then getting a puncture. Months of training and a pile of cash over in a pfssssssssssst.
I'd hoped to be in the front-half. On the day we'll be put into maybe three-or-four pens, so there's still the opportunity to creep forwards (or backwards).
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