Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Freewheeling => Racing => Topic started by: CrazyEnglishTriathlete on 18 October, 2013, 10:01:30 am
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Saw an article in the comic about a cyclist looking to break the 7 day cycling world record which allegedly was set by an 18 year old in Australia, presumably quoting this article
http://road.cc/content/news/79412-cyclist-who-survived-cancer-twice-gains-support-two-world-record-breaking
Got me thinking that whereas some records like Tommy Godwin's 75000 milesin a year or Wilkos 541 miles in 24 hours are in the realm of fantasy, a distance of 1546.8 miles in 7 days (221 miles per day) is not beyond the realms of reason, certainly quite a few anciens of this parish will have kept this up for 3+ days on 1000km+ Audax events.
Thoughts anyone??
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The first 7 days of RAAM is longer.
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Probably bested by RAAM riders regularly but none of them have paid the Guinness ransom.
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7-day cycling world record of 1546.8 miles
I'm pretty sure Mike Hall would have exceeded that during his rtw - he nearly averaged 200miles per day over the trip.
Yeah, this is about who has paid Guinness.
Kristof must have far exceeded this in the transcontinental. He averaged over 400km per day.
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Kristof rode over 2000miles (including quite a lot of climbing) in 7.5 days unsupported
edit: i reckon all "podium" finishers of the transcontinental rode more than 1547miles in 7 days
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So, we are all agreed that 1500miles in 7 days is a gentle touring pootle.
If Chain Reaction have picked the right bod for the job, what is a realistic target? For a supported ride, over 2500miles?
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I would have thought somewhere just north of 2500 miles would be about right. RAAM fastest crossings are around 8.5 days for just under 3000 miles, so I reckon you are on the money.
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So if this bloke comes in under, say 2200miles, I think we should approach Kristof to mount a YACF-backed counter-attempt. ;)
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I would have thought somewhere just north of 2500 miles would be about right. RAAM fastest crossings are around 8.5 days for just under 3000 miles, so I reckon you are on the money.
Strasser came in under 8 days this year!
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Tommy Godwin kept up roughly 300 miles a day for 7 consecutive days during his record year. He almost did 1000 miles in 3 days.
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Strasser came in under 8 days this year!
He reached the 2646 mile timestation in 6 days 22 hours (http://www.raceacrossamerica.org/raam/rcracer.php?s_N_category_group=1&s_N_Race_ID=1&s_N_Year_ID=37&s_N_Entry_ID=2949)
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Anything over 250 mile per day (400km per day) starts to get hard. Assuming you can do a 17 - 18 hour 400 that gives you 6 -7 hours rest off the bike a night. But that was what made me think the record was softer than most in the first place 7 x 250 being 1750 miles.
I guess the hard work as always is in getting things validated and paying for someone to monitor what's going 24 x 7 for a week.
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According to James Golding's website:
The World Seven Day record currently stands at 1,546.8 miles – ridden in 1940 by an Australian named, Pat Hawkins whilst riding around the world. We will also prepare to break this record.
I very much doubt that that record was validated to any very high standard