205 miles in a day (Tommy Godwin Challenge) - the Progress thread

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jo from the other place

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Just a note on the slightly more erratic posting times from me recently (and therefore for Ian who has to look out for my posts over there to copy them here). It takes about 30 minutes for me to assemble the data, update the graph and add a brief commentary. I had been doing this around 6am every morning where I can squeeze it into a work day or weekend of RL. More recently Steve has been posting his rides to Strava mid-morning or sometimes even late the following day by which time other things are going on. Hopefully once Steve is back in to a more regular routine, the diet settles down and the wind drops, normal service can be resumed.
 

ianrauk

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From Jo from the other place.. The OYTT Website HERE

Day 340 / 121: Kurt is towed around the Flatwood Park circuit by some fast riders for most of the day followed by an evening ride with Alicia. In total an impressive 247 miles takes him around 765 miles above the Godwin line and only 235 miles behind Tommy's like-for-like ride distance. Steve has a late start intending to miss the worst of the headwind as he heads back from Acle to Milton Keynes via the north Norfolk coast. He heads home with 158 miles on the clock by midnight but a few more in store for the following 24 hours.

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ianrauk

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From Jo from the other place.. The OYTT Website HERE

Day 341 / 122: More laps of Flatwood Park for Kurt, some with fast company, most without, giving him a day's total of 215 miles edging him ever closer to Tommy's like-for-like distance. Steve does an Essex there-and-back-again for 183 miles including the last section of the previous night's ride. He is now within a day of the 60,000 milestone and around a week to ten days from Rene Menzies' 1937 record.

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swansonj

Guru
Steve Abraham
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Steve almost got himself a warm dry room for the night, on Saturday (when the police tried to arrest him for cycling on an A-road). Luckily, he was able to explain that he hadn't actually contravened any rules of the road - and they had to let him go - so he went on to complete his 233-mile ride that night...

We need an emergency mailing list, so that, should Steve actually be arrested, we can form a posse, converge on the jailhouse, and break him out without delay - a kind of version of the jailbreak scene in Convoy, only with bicycles instead of thirty ton trucks.
 

ianrauk

Tattooed Beat Messiah
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From Jo from the other place.. The OYTT Website HERE

Day 342 / 123: Another 228 miles of Flatwood Park loops for Kurt continues to push him away from the Godwin line. Steve heads SW towrds Oxford and returns home for a mid-afternoon finish in order to catch up on missed sleep. His day total is 81 miles which drops him over 1000 miles below the Godwin line.

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"In ultra-endurance cycling the best-laid plans don’t always come to fruition. Things can and do go wrong."

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Little article here about Miles and his failed attempt, actualy I'm not keen on "failed" it sounds too negative considering the efforts involved, I'll say aborted instead.
 

Scoosh

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Good article that. :okay: Must have been written a while ago, as no mention of his other 'non-interruption' - his marriage to Alicia Snyder ! :smooch:
 

ianrauk

Tattooed Beat Messiah
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Rides Ti2
From Jo from the other place.. The OYTT Website HERE

Day 343 / 124: Kurt continues to do what he does best, fast loops around Flatwood for prodigious distances. With help from other fast riders who join him for 'only' 100 miles at a time, he manages 241 for the day, catching up with Tommy's total fast. Steve heads to the Cotswolds, breaking the 60,000 mile barrier and then after a rest back at home continues NE to Peterborough, managing 188 miles by midnight.

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