---
title: "Tracking my progress during PBP 2011"
description: "Following my journey in the historic Paris-Brest-Paris cycling event, a 1200km ultra-endurance challenge that I completed in under 77 hours."
author: "Colin McNamara"
tags: ["cycling","endurance-sports","personal-achievements","paris-brest-paris","fitness"]
image: "https://colinmcnamara.com/images/blog/paris-brest-paris-2011-tracking/featured.png"
date: 2011-08-15
url: https://colinmcnamara.com/blog/paris-brest-paris-2011-tracking
---

# Tracking my progress during PBP 2011

![Paris-Brest-Paris route map](https://colinmcnamara.com/images/blog/paris-brest-paris-2011-tracking/paris-brest-paris-postcards.jpg)

For those of you that don't know. I am a bit of a cycling fanatic. My events of choice are ultra-endurance events lasting 200 miles or more.

For the last two years I have been training with a goal of finishing the oldest bicycling event in history, Paris-Brest-Paris. This event has been held every 4 years since 1896, and is 1200 kilometers (roughly 750 miles) long. Roughly 700 of us Americans qualified to go this time, and I am one of them.

For those of you that want to track my progress while I am on the road ACP (the group who runs PBP) has implemented a RFID tracking system that will track me as I move between checkpoints on the course. You can monitor my progress starting on Aug 21st at 6:00 pm CEST (Paris Time) by going to the page below and entering in the frame number 4500.

[http://www.paris-brest-paris.org/pbp2011/index2.php?lang=en&cat=accueil&page=edito](http://www.paris-brest-paris.org/pbp2011/index2.php?lang=en&cat=accueil&page=edito)

Frame number = 4500

Bonne Route! --Colin

## ---UPDATE ---

My results are below - I came in at 76 hours and 57 minutes (well under the 90 hour time limit for my group).

![PBP Results showing completion time](https://colinmcnamara.com/images/blog/paris-brest-paris-2011-tracking/pbp-resultsjj.jpg)