Ladies and Gentlemen; we have a winner.
You are absolutely mental. You need locking up for your own safety.
316 miles in one day??? That’s insane.
Thank-you. I think.
Actually it’s not that impressive.
I was building up to doing a 24hr MTB race. Did 214miles in National 12hr Time trail champs on the road in 2008 then did 316miles in the National 24hr time-trial Champs (2009) Pi$$ed it down for a lot of it, quite horrible. Fell asleep on the bike around 4am, probably only for a couple of seconds but woke up in the wrong lane of a major A-road, scared me quite a bit so I stopped and had 20minutes proper sleep, was OK after that. Winner got over 400miles…
Have discovered road 24s are really dull, think that’s why I nodded off. And being on tri-bars leaves one in the ideal position for doing so!
Did 2 solo 24hr MTB races last year much more successfully, 9th at Newcastleton and then 31st at the Worlds in Canberra. Done 1 so far this year, 13th at Newcastleton (was beaten by one singlespeeder, that’s impressive!) Staying awake is now much less of an issue. Is it because I am now used to it or because having more adrenaline from the fun bits in my system keeps me awake or because I have discovered caffine tablets?