Tour de Hisp 13-Stage Daily Tour Announced, August 15-28

Fantastic! It will be a great challenge for me or any indoor cyclist to participate in a race with so many stages. Great initiative of Club Hisp. Congratulations!

How about adding a 1700PST otherwise anybody in America with a job wont be able to participate

Great event!!! We must go on!!!

it’s hard to understand what may be some critical rules or things participants should know and regret if they make the time and effort to do more than a couple of these stages. I did look at and ran the Spanish through google translate without mich more help:

1) more instructions clearly outlining things from the promoter would be useful
2) hey ‘when in Rome’ … but …it’s tricky and I won’t get ‘audibles’ but google translate seems to indicate that even the Spanish instructions are not answering things I’m guessing assuming?
3) Some instructions are also in English if so would be good to have a translation of all instructions
4) ANY verbal instructions or changes given minutes before the stage … I do regret not learning Spanish, but if they give some English would again be nice to have everything in both languages. Yes there are many other languages and the US/UK/Australia (or Japan/Korea) and those who speak other languages aren’t imperial powers who have some right to have it in our own too. But there is somewhat of a. It’s towards other learning English in many fields so most likely most common next language.
5) all else from Zwift is in English this is a club doing their thing and inviting everyone to the party this is AWESOME I hope that’s clear…but yeah
6) I notice many/ most riders are of the club or flying a flag of a Spanish speaking country. I EXPECT a ‘home field advantage’ all cool as many racers will communicate with each other in Spanish and hey I should learn it too!
7) but if the organizers give additional verbal typed instructions etc minutes before the race I hope they take the time to repeat them in at least one additional language.

(I lead a large IRL weekly outdoor ride for a couple of years some spoke primarily Spanish with Very limited English and I’d out online and printed instructions and tips. While those were only a few riders I worked google translate then got it checked and honed so some major gist wasn’t lost in translation. I then made these parallel mirror of the e flush instructions equally available to my fellow riders and anyone who may want them. I only say this to say I not only am saying I of course would do the same…I have and know it’s work but wouldn’t ask for anything I wouldn’t do.

ok what now? Clearly this is an a. Awesome event the times for North America are unlikely to suddenly change this year but this could easily get multi year legs. I’d ask the race organizers if they’d consider some of the following:

**At minimum all rules should be stated in advance (even if in Spanish). If only sprung on non club members. New instructions from organizers in more than one language (the times are hard enough). What why English? It IS used throughout Zwift instructions and they give shorter versions in English…your links are mostly to things entirely in Spanish but … lol not enough said in any language I suspect they organizers don’t realize what they may be taking for granted. Tomorrow I was given a start time. Oh … ok it’s a TT says somewhere. No drafting. Is that programmed? I’ll be on a TT bike are they required or is this set up so we’ll put PUT on them or is my ‘one minute man’ gonna catch me on a Tron and semi draft me for part of the course for example? To be clear I love this, hope I can get in these awkward times for North America sure, but maybe it’s just ‘wait is this a TT stage?’ ‘Prologue’ another clue but as many course aren’t shorter ‘stage 1’ as main descriptor works!! A bunch more things will pop up so I hope this long one way discussion is helpful over time if not right away. Thanks again to the club HISP for creating such a uniquely long and challenging Zwift event it’s a gift and i appreciate them and hope to do some.