Richard Sterry starting out on 300+ miles and more than 30,000ft of climbing at about 8 this morning. Been brought forward due to weather forecast for the weekend.

@hillburner and hash tag #SD3 on twitter.

at least the wind’s dropped off a bit this morning 🙂

Posted 10 years ago

Wow…. that’s gonna be a hell of a 30+ hour ride that. !!!

Posted 10 years ago

‘legburner’ would be a better twitter name for this ride, I think 😉

Posted 10 years ago

That’s very silly.

Posted 10 years ago

😯 😯 😯 😯

Posted 10 years ago

At what point do we get to question his mental health????

That’s SERIOUSLY impressive

Posted 10 years ago

Excellent, go for it.

Posted 10 years ago

Why?

Posted 10 years ago

Nutter!

Posted 10 years ago

Why?

because it’s there?

there’s a bloke less than 1000km from a world record bicycle circumnavigation. Why? Because he wanted to.

people doing stuff that I don’t understand or want to do myself is not a bad thing in itself is it?

Posted 10 years ago

progress can be tracked live here (assuming his battery holds out!);

http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/60289217

Posted 10 years ago

wwaswas. I understand doing challenges but riding the same piece of trail 3 times seems odd / lacking in imagination. Why not ride a longer / different trail?

Posted 10 years ago

I guess because in the South East (or maybe England) there aren’t that many 300 mile long bits of bridleway that only require the odd road crossing but not much more in the way of tarmac?

Also, it’s a progression: SDW in a day was a major challenge for ‘early’ mtbers, then the double was done and then it was done faster.

It’s a recognised route, one that people aspire to ride, setting the ‘target’ at the next level isn’t a bad thing.

My experience of the South Downs is you can ride the same route more than once, but it’s never the same twice.

[edit] I think it’s one of those things you either ‘get’ or ‘don’t get’ I’m not going to try and justify someones elses choice of route and personal challenge any further.

Posted 10 years ago

Does he have a target time?

How long before the first sub-24 triple?!

Posted 10 years ago

TJ, why do the three peaks when you could just go up Everest. FFS the SDW is a known quantity people use the double as a reference to set themselves against others.

Posted 10 years ago

I understand doing challenges but riding the same piece of trail 3 times seems odd / lacking in imagination. Why not ride a longer / different trail?

I was kind of thinking along the same lines. The SDW makes sense as a double, but three times does make seem like he’s on the wrong route.

It’s an impressive ride without a doubt and one he should be proud of but a triple doesn’t really capture the imagination.

Posted 10 years ago

My experience of the South Downs is you can ride the same route more than once, but it’s never the same twice.

I ride on them every day to get to work and then again to get home and I never get bored. 300 miles non stop though does seem like a very tough mental as well as physical challenge.

Posted 10 years ago

Thats insane, i love it. His average speed would suggest 36 hours of riding. Is the eastbourne bit slow or is this the kidn of speed hes gonna pace at the whole ride?

Posted 10 years ago

wwaswas. I understand doing challenges but riding the same piece of trail 3 times seems odd / lacking in imagination. Why not ride a longer / different trail?

Maybe it’s a really long ‘bleep test’??

🙄

DrP

Posted 10 years ago

9-10 mph is a fairly reasonable average, ime, it’s a bit lumpy at the Eastbourne end too.

He’s aiming for 36 hoursish, I think.

Posted 10 years ago

TJ, if you dont get it, dont bother posting on this particular thread. Leave it for those who do get it.

Go and start another one please. With respect, your not the sort of person who is likely to be persuaded that this is a good challange / idea 🙂

I managed to do only 85 miles of it and that took me 11 hours !

Posted 10 years ago

“He’s aiming for 36 hoursish, I think.”

Is that without stopping for sleep and stuff?

Posted 10 years ago

Trimix – au contraire – I get doing “challenges” but merely queried why riding the same bit of trail 3 times was the chosen one here.

Posted 10 years ago

good luck to him, just doing it one way was challenging enough, shall watch with interest and hope he achieves it.

Posted 10 years ago

Not sure I could do 30 miles! Good luck to the freak man 😉

Posted 10 years ago

Only hit 24mph going down South Ease 🙄

Posted 10 years ago

Good luck to him. I’ll be watching and (virtual) cheering online.

I like these things. Mike Hall’s almost home, Tour Divide (Fixie dave Nice is already ITTing it from South to North) kicks off soon and Aidan’s EWE race is next month.

Posted 10 years ago

Trimix – au contraire – I get doing “challenges” but merely queried why riding the same bit of trail 3 times was the chosen one here.

you’ve done a 24 hr event before?

Posted 10 years ago

Good luck to him. Anybody know how many gates that’ll be? 😀

Posted 10 years ago

Why do it 3 times?

I would guess its because it’s going one better than what been done before. I don’t doubt in years to come that someone will do the double double. It’s what people do always strive to go one better than what has been done before.

Posted 10 years ago

Who’s going to do the battery pit stop for his phone, or is it some other device tracking him.

The run at the start of May was quite an impressive time! Although he quite obviously has a thing for doing dull routes ie repeating the same trail.

Posted 10 years ago

you’ve done a 24 hr event before?

Yeah, they’re daft too 😀
I get TJs point.
Richard’s ride is going to be really impressive in athletic achievement, but to me, and really want to emphasises the ‘me’ bit, isn’t very inspirational. But as it’s not his purpose in life to inspire me, that’s not meant as a complaint in any form and I hat’s off to him attempting it!!
I guess it reminds me of people who do an Ironman, then a double-ironman, then a tripple, then a decca. It seems like going on holiday to the same place each year but for longer.
Which is also fine.

Posted 10 years ago

Daisy Duke off here did a double last year. He was hoping for a sub 24 but a couple of tumbles and a problem with his lights meant he missed it by about an hour IIRC.

Top effort though 😀

Posted 10 years ago

It seems like going on holiday to the same place each year but for longer.

My sister does that and she is definitely weird.

Posted 10 years ago

Full respect to him, it may not be the most interesting terrain etc and doing it three times over seems insane, but as others have said, he’s 300 miles away from a world mountain biking first record which is an achievement in my opionion.

I’m in Worthing and it’s warm and humid out there right now… he’s going to need to drink plenty over the next 36hrs that’s for sure.

Loving the fact he has a live progress feed! Very clever.

http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/60289217

Posted 10 years ago

My sister does that and she is definitely weird.

It’s probably genetic 😉

Posted 10 years ago

It’s probably genetic

🙁

Posted 10 years ago

Cheer up, you might be adopted

Posted 10 years ago

Cheer up, you might be adopted

that could make a good nature or nurture type study 😉

Posted 10 years ago

Currently tracking him too.
I might go and nick his bike and phone when he next comes past me…. (actually, I’ll get him third time round – bound to be less of a fight…)

DrP

Posted 10 years ago