One loop.
Every hour.
Until nobody can.

Everyone starts at the same second.

The world team championship is a satellite race. Every nation runs it at home, on its own loop, and the clocks start together. Nobody sees anybody else run. Each nation times its own race, and the totals are normally only added up afterwards.

What that means for this page

Where a nation publishes its timing feed, the numbers can be read while the race is still on. So we pull them together and add them up ourselves, live. Not every nation publishes one — a missing country is not a statement.

The sun sets at 18:37.

By the fifth bell it is dark, and it stays dark for thirteen hours. Same 6706 metres, now by headlamp. The two road crossings nobody thought about at three in the afternoon are the only places with light.

Crews are shared

There is not enough room in Baar for fifteen separate crews, so they are shared. The person handing you a cup is handing the next one a cup too, and at four in the morning they have been awake exactly as long as you have.

Baar, along the Lorze.

Vereinshaus SV Baar, out and back along the lorze. Two road crossings, both on the way out, both marshalled.

Come and watch

Anyone can watch. It costs nothing, there is nothing to book, and the whole thing happens at Vereinshaus SV Baar. The bell goes on the hour, every hour — that is the minute worth being there for, and it comes back until the race is over. Saturday evening is when it gets good. Sunday morning is when it gets serious.

Loop counts on this page come straight from the timing system in Baar and refresh every thirty seconds. Both boards already run on the real 2024 data, so you can see now what they will do on the day. A livestream has been announced; the link goes here as soon as it exists.