[HAMR] Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)

[mcshroom]

This will be the hardest part mentally I'd think for Kurt. He doesn't have a pacemaker to give a short term aim, he's well ahead of Tommy Godwin's progress, but still has most of the year to go.

Hopefully he'll keep churning out the distances though

[tonyh]

Wishing him very well.
Admiration is ongoing.

[Wowbagger]

This will be the hardest part mentally I'd think for Kurt. He doesn't have a pacemaker to give a short term aim, he's well ahead of Tommy Godwin's progress, but still has most of the year to go.

Hopefully he'll keep churning out the distances though

I think you are right. As a racer, he's always got someone to beat. He's also got the decidedly seasonal nature of US weather to deal with, and although he's done pretty amazingly well so far, the summer heat, autumn storms and what could be a sudden descent into the winter some time in November makes me think he'll be back in Florida once the hurricane season is over, but well before Christmas.

[danridesbikes]

Perfect conditions for Kurt yesterday - a bit surprised he didn't clock even more miles.

Strong tailwind all day and very flat.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/735694686

Video up on Facebook, a day of issues it seems,

[Hummers]

Anyone else looking at this every so often and shaking their head in disbelief of what Kurt is achieving?

Hats off to him.

H

[wajcgac]

Perfect conditions for Kurt yesterday - a bit surprised he didn't clock even more miles.

Strong tailwind all day and very flat.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/735694686

Video up on Facebook, a day of issues it seems,

The video is of day 82, it was day 83 that he had the perfect conditions.

https://www.facebook.com/tarzanrides

Quote from Kurt for Day 83

Great Tailwind ride to MO State Line.

[danridesbikes]

Ah ok

[Graeme]

Anyone else looking at this every so often and shaking their head in disbelief of what Kurt is achieving?

Hats off to him.

H

+1

[Wowbagger]

He is doing amazingly. It scarcely seems fair that he's achieving pretty well everything he is and many of us are just taking a cursory glance every so often. When Steve was bashing out the miles I had their respective trackers open in my Chrome window all the time. I think I've checked about 3 times in the past 6 days.

[Climberruss]

I just noticed that, after yesterdsay's 221 miles, his daily average is now 204 miles - hes on track with Tommy.

[red marley]

He's making very good progress, but not quite on par with Tommy yet. Tommy rode with an annual average of 205.6 miles per day, Kurt is currently on 204.2. Kurt will match that when his progress line on the OYTT visualization hits the thick horizontal line on the chart.

[Mr Larrington]

355 km yesterday so he's not slacking off.

[Canardly]

His average speeds are breathtaking.

[Justin(e)]

His average speeds are breathtaking.

Please don't interpret this as anything other than admiration for the phenomenon that Kurt is, but ...

Imagine if you could combine his speed with TG's mental ability to suffer so long on the bike each day.  Maybe in a hundred years we'll see such a man and the record for all time will be set.

[runsoncake]

Astonishing stuff, especially considering his equipment attrition rate. I wish him well for the rest of the year.

But I think he may have trouble now that Steve will be lying down to ride, he won't even need to get off it  to sleep, think of all the time he'll save not going home

[wajcgac]

Kurt has a new video on facebook titled 'I want to ride my trike'.

To me it sounded like Alicia was getting a trike but

at 20 secs he says 'then I can use the trike' in response to Alicia but I can't make out what he says after that until he says about 'going to Texas to see it' .

Any ideas what he said ?

https://www.facebook.com/tarzanrides

 

[αdαmsκι]

Refers to the fact Steve is getting a trike and therefore Kurt is feeling left out

[Climberruss]

Refers to the fact Steve is getting a trike and therefore Kurt is feeling left out

Sounds like Alicia's getting one too She also has a broken ankle.

[Hummers]

I took it to be a light-hearted piss take of Steve's plans.

H

[Climberruss]

I took it to be a light-hearted piss take of Steve's plans.

H

I think there was a sizeable element of that too. 

[toontra]

Kurt appears to have had two lengthy motorised transfers today taking well over 3 hours out of  his cycling time.  That's unless his tracker is on the blink again.

[Mr Larrington]

He's uploaded three separate wossnames to Strava but it looks to have been a very low-mileage day by his standards.  Nobbut 181 km

[Ningishzidda]

http://www.littlerockzoo.com/animals

Right down on the bottom row. They look so glum,,,, without Steve.

[Jack_P]

He earned a rest day after a solid block of 21 days over 200 miles 

[Chris S]

Looks like a proper week of weather in the panhandle. Severe storms with increasing tornado threat. Becoming hot, humid and windy ahead of the 'Dry Line'.