250 miles a day - for a month

[peanutgallery]

So... to question is now a slur?

Figures

Originally Posted by KonaSS

If it doesn't interest you, don't follow. But the whole premise of an FKT is fastest KNOWN time.

And if you are only interested in racing, he did sorta win Unbound just a few months ago. Also won Tour of Utah and Tour of Gila among other professional achievements. So hope you weren't throwing the Professional exerciser/fitness journey slurs at Lachlan.

[marciero]

Originally Posted by peanutgallery

Ever since the advent of the interwebs there's been an increasing number of professional exercisers. Sometimes I just don't see the point...as there are no other participants in this endeavor. So how do we know if it's a for real result? Someone may have already done it in like 1910

Too many fitness journeys

I think that some "endurance" events and exploits you hear about are just plain stupid, either being more like survival events with gratuitous risk to health and life, or where the individual simply cooks up something ridiculous to get attention.

But here you have a professional athlete making an attempt at an FKT on an established route, and its simply riding a bike. Its extreme but not stupid extreme, in my judgement anyway. Its still an athletic endurance event. Its more of what a lot of us already do, and some of us apparently have.

[merckxman]

A 600km day!

[NHAero]

Finished, averaging over 290 miles per day!

[54ny77]

That guy was a monster motor.

Originally Posted by Mark McM

Lon Haldeman set himself the goal of riding across the US in under 10 days. In 1981 he rode from New York City, New York, to Santa Monica, California, in 12 days and 8 hours. Having failed in his goal, he rested for 6 hours, and then decided to try again, and rode back to New York, this time taking 10 days and 23 hours - a round trip distance of about 6000 miles over 24 days, average about 250 miles per day.

The following year he tried again, this time meeting his goal by riding across the USA in 9 days and 20 hours (or roughly 300 miles per day).

[reuben]

Originally Posted by NHAero

Finished, averaging over 290 miles per day!

Unimaginable.

[sparky33]

Originally Posted by NHAero

They are both cool people and super-studs (if you can call a woman a stud, I'm open to a better word choice!)

It is fascinating to hear about people testing the limits of their superhuman physiology and mental resilience. Kudos to them.

I couldn't do a tiny fraction of that effort.

[NHAero]

Originally Posted by sparky33

It is fascinating to hear about people testing the limits of their superhuman physiology and mental resilience. Kudos to them.

I couldn't do a tiny fraction of that effort.

His average miles for three days exceeds my best month in the past five years.

[charliedid]

Bravo Lachy