[HAMR] Who's next?

[LittleWheelsandBig]

A hundred mile daily average gives a lot of freedom for short days and days off. Even a 200km Audax gives you 25 miles in the bank and 300km and longer brevets give you a lot more. Sure, that total is out of reach when combined with a full-time job and it would be tough with a part-time job but we're not talking about that.

[Basil]

Speaking of women's records.  I think (not absolutely sure) that BB's 227 miles 24 hour still stands.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

Christine Roberts did 461.45 miles for 24hrs in 1993.

Beryl Burton did 277.25 miles for 12 hours in 1967. She pulled out of the only 24 she started. Beryl was leading the field but got sore knees. Roy Cromack went on to a 507 mile record.

[Basil]

Thanks.
So the 12.  Does it still stand?

[LittleWheelsandBig]

Oh yes. Few women can hold much better than evens for 12 hours. The courses have got slower nowadays, which to some extent offsets things like disk wheels and tribars.

[geraldc]

I think people will be getting a lot of info from these attempts.

The next logical step would be a bent only attempt, based in Florida. With this sort of thing, it looks like it maybe a gap year thing. Much like people take a year out to cycle round the world. Someone based in Florida with a couple of bents could get himself a record before heading off to university or graduate school.

[Karla]

Though Beryl still holds the women's 12 hour record (record tables here, the men's record got taken back two years later by John Watson, the same year that his clubmate Cromack got the 24 and their mutual clubmate Pete Smith got the 100 mile record.  Pete was out on the club run last week and confirmed that despite his club record having since fallen, he has no intention of taking it back.      The other two records still stand as club records, if not national ones.

I have since moved to a different club with slower records 

Back on the women's 12 hour front, Jasmijn Muller is a name to watch - she did 252.6 at her first attempt (on a road bike with clip-ons) and could be very dangerous if she has a proper go on a good day.

[IanDG]

Jaded has no excuse now that they've relaxed the 'no-alcohol' rule

[Nuncio]

Indeed. Fun for all the family.

After toasting the new year I had the assembled family toast Steve, saying I hoped we'd be able to do the same next year.   

[Ningishzidda]

Here’s the chart.

Anyone considering riding at 100 W average for 1000 minutes is going to need a curve that goes through 300 W at 60 minutes, 380 W at 20 minutes and 600 W at 1 minute.

A curve that will rise up in ratio with ‘UK Amateur tourists’ and join ‘First class athletes’ at the 20 minute co-ordinate.

[Jaded]

Jaded has no excuse now that they've relaxed the 'no-alcohol' rule

 

[clarion]

I think we're likely to see a 'bent record very soon.

[T42]

yclept goes into my scrabble vocab - ta ;-)

My work here is done

Mr ('Chalky') White taught me that word in or around 1973, when I was imposed with O Level English Literature and the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
(Or should this be in IanG's '41 Years Ago' thread?)

I first encountered it in, of all places, Alistair McLean's "HMS Ulysses" at Christmas 1974.

William Morris's "Well at the World's End" when I was knee-high to an archaism.

[Jacamo]

Anyone considering riding at 100 W average for 1000 minutes is going to need a curve that goes through 300 W at 60 minutes, 380 W at 20 minutes and 600 W at 1 minute.

It takes nowhere near those 60 and 20 minute numbers for a person to be capable of a 100w avg over a 1000 min.

[Martin]

I'd imagine someone from the southern hemisphere might give it a crack.  But, really, after this year I don't imagine there will be the same excitement.  Neil Armstrong vs whoever led the 2nd trip to the moon.

that's easy it was Tom Hanks;

I very much doubt it will be attempted for another generation