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Long podcast interview with Lael discussing just about everything mentioned up thread, for those interested, apart from ****ers drive Audis in Derbyshire
Escape Collective: Ultra: Lael Wilcox’s race against time for the Around The World record
Episode webpage: https://share.transistor.fm/s/b5131012
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Anyone got any idea what's happening with Vedangi? Her tracker has been stationary just outside Kolkata for several days now.
I think she got heat stroke in India and is jumping to Mongolia
https://www.instagram.com/thisisvedangi?igsh=MWV6Z2kwZ3g0d2UwbA==
Do you have a link to the tracker!
Ah thanks for that. I see she is now in Mongolia and setting off on Wednesday. I wonder if this will be a restart.
Here's the tracker:
Sorted, I'll aim to watch both attempts. I'll open another tab for Vedangi.
I have been dot watching every day and it looks like Lael is nearly back in Chicago. Probably Friday morning?
20 miles to go. My estimated finish time was a few days out!
Absolutely amazing. By my maths, an average of 167 miles a day!
On the BBC as well:
BBC News - American becomes fastest woman to cycle globe
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7344w3jzzo
No going to compare with my Strava for the last 108 days!
Amazing achievement, hoping there's a great film coming up about it, I find her really engaging on her previous stuff.
I've been dot watching and listening to the daily podcasts with breakfast. A great performance. I don't think I'd have the mentality to ride every day for 108 (well 109) days and as for those daily distances, Crikey. What really impresses me is that she decided to do it with a decent sleep each night.
BBC mentions Vedangi. Sadly she seems have been having problems and won't be threatening Lael's record but she is plugging on.
Who's next? Lachlan? Currently averaging over 300 miles a day on his trip around Australia.
Who’s next? Lachlan? Currently averaging over 300 miles a day on his trip around Australia.
He did a lot of those miles in flip-flops as well cos he was getting hot-spot problems in his cycling shoes!
I’d be really interested to hear what Jenny Graham thinks of tihs attempt. It’s got a lot of differences to her approach but also a lot of similarities. I strongly suspect she’d be nothing but suportive.
One article I read somewhere (social media maybe?) said that JG was at the finish in Chicago cheering LW in. Does seem to be a thing in ultra-endurance racing where the whole community is really supportive because they all know that records are there to be broken and they understand what the athlete went through in order to achieve that. Seems to go through phases as well - there was a spate of Everesting records a few years ago when lots of people were at it and - as with this round-the-world record - part of the challenge is choosing the right hill, the right weather conditions and so on. The records will never be exactly equal if Person A does it on this hill but Person B chooses another hill; same as RTW where either you have an exact route to be followed (which is probably unworkable) or you just set some parameters and leave it to the individual to abide by that framework.
Hell of a ride, no matter what anyone thinks of the overall record.
Brilliant news, I have been listening to her podcasts. She s done some monster daily miles and night rode through the desert, sleeping in the day.
I too couldn't believe she had any bad days or got bored, but as she says in interviews she feels she could carry on.
Loving all the support she got along the way.
One article I read somewhere (social media maybe?) said that JG was at the finish in Chicago cheering LW in.
According her Instagram she was congratulating her from Scotland.
There is a his interview Mark Beaumont on GCN on how he wants others to try for his record and the impossibility of using his route
The feature starts about 2 minutes 20 seconds in
And congrats to Lael too of course
I need to watch that.
By complete chance I bumped into Jenny Graham when I was up in Inverness for Etape Loch Ness. Forgot she lived up there.
I was the gibbering fanboi that blurted her name as I let her past on the footbridge.
I really enjoyed the video. I know it’s only a series of snapshots of her time on the bike over the whole ride, and that it may not show her when she wasn’t smiling or when she was struggling - but it’s amazing how much she did smile, talk to people, and look like she was enjoying it.