UMCA Highest Annual Mileage Record (HAM’R)
http://www.ultracycling.com/...s/records/data/hamr/
The record for most miles ridden in a year is 75,039. That’s 205.6 miles every day for a year.
In 1939, Tommy Godwin cycled 75,065 miles – an average of 205 miles per day.
http://www.tommygodwin.com/ Enjoy the photo gallery.
I have been following Steve Abraham and Kurt Searvogel. Both of these guys are on Strava and Kurt is very close to breaking the record.
I use to think doing the RAAM was crazy but this is a whole new level.
Kurt who has been killing it. Is still pumping out 220-250 mile days. I think he is the smarter one, choosing a milder place to ride.
Oh yeah Kurt is also freakin- 52 years old!!!
https://www.strava.com/activities/458329159
https://www.facebook.com/tarzanrides/
Steve is a very tough guy he was hit by a guy on a scooter, this breaking his ankle and causing a lung collapse. It only held him back a few weeks.
The weather that he is racing in is brutal his rides are near Oxford in the UK and it is windy wet, cold and hilly!!!
https://www.strava.com/activities/457647799
http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/l/Oxford+United+Kingdom+UKXX0106:1:UK#/!
http://road.cc/...ng-recumbent-one-leg
https://www.facebook.com/stevenabraham2015/
http://www.outsideonline.com/...ello-i-must-be-going
How is this possible???
“Michael Joyner, a physician at the Mayo Clinic who specializes in exercise physiology, particularly “human limits” as long as a rider is not constantly pushing the red zone in terms of heart rate, Joyner says the biggest risks are from injury, overuse, and illnesses that can be worsened by intense physical effort. What these cyclists are doing “sounds incredible, and it is incredible,” says Joyner. “But if you do the math behind it—the fuel, the caloric consumption (8000 calories a day in Kurt’s case) —and make a few assumptions about the individual’s maximum oxygen consumption, the fact is that humans can work at about 40 percent of their maximum all day. As long as they don’t get dehydrated, they’re good to go.”
"He suggested that the bodily aches and pains, while not insubstantial, were, in the end, dwarfed by the mental toll. The challenges of boredom, motivation, and other intangibles start to stack up at the extreme limits. “The physiology is straightforward,” he says. “It’s these other, multifactorial things that really become definitive. Your margin for error isn’t a bunch of additive errors, it’s multiplicative errors.”
I think they are putting out way more than 40 percent!!!