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

[Mugshot]

Just to clarify, I don't think Kurt is a wuss, my tongue was firmly in my cheek. Perhaps I should have added a smiley face, this one perhaps definitely not this one

 

[Aperitif]

"GROW STEVE!"
There's a nice tribute to Steve on yacf...the 'Quarter Peal' at Marsh Gibbon church. Good fun to find it and listen - the man's influence is strong.

 

[Aperitif]

As an aside, Kevin Carr is 'doing a Steve' in his own way, and is nearly done...here. Their mental strength is similar, I feel. (I 'feel' from the comfort of an office chair, that is...)

 

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And from Jo, on yacf
"Despite 10 days off the bike following his ankle injury, Steve has still spent more than half of 2015 moving on his bike."

The trike is imminent. Steve's body will be covered in wheels...

 

[Pale Rider]

Steve has just posted in the other place to say the trike has yet to arrive.

Looks to me like he won't be riding it in the attempt until tomorrow at the earliest.

 

[Aperitif]

Steve has just posted in the other place to say the trike has yet to arrive.

Looks to me like he won't be riding it in the attempt until tomorrow at the earliest.

That's ok - it's still imminent.
And, Steve is still posting within tent.

The 'Quarter peal' at Marsh Gibbon is a nice sound too - I was trying to work out the cycles of ringing...

 

[Supersuperleeds]

239.9 miles for Kurt. I know he has done a cracking distance but I'd have to have done another tenth to get rid of that point nine.

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

239.9 miles for Kurt. I know he has done a cracking distance but I'd have to have done another tenth to get rid of that point nine.

You would have rounded to 250 I'm sure

 

[Pale Rider]

Roger the Moneyman is saying in the other place it will be next week before Steve makes a start on the track with the trike.

 

[Scoosh]

Roger the Moneyman is saying in the other place it will be next week before Steve makes a start on the track with the trike.

but as well !

GO STEVE !

 

[summerdays]

[QUOTE 3637915, member: 9609"]"the other place" ?

I don't know if steve is best forgetting about this challenge and concentrating on the new start in June - even if steve clocks up 50 mile a day with one leg on the trike over the next 4 weeks. He would then need to average 240 a day until the end of the year.[/QUOTE]
But at the end of the year it would set the first record.

 

[mcshroom]

He's going to hold the record whatever. It does bring it home to me that Kurt's 240 mile day is amazing, and Steve would have to average that, for the rest of the year, while recovering from injury. I personally think this attempt is now out of the running, and would expect Steve to work up to a second start, either in the late summer or next January when he's ridden back into fitness.

The experience and training he has developed over this campaign, however, will, if anything make him even better prepared for the next one. Allez Steve

 

[Supersuperleeds]

215 miles for Kurt yesterday, he's now over 18,500 miles

 

[mcshroom]

New challenger up and running - Miles Smith
200km before breakfast, and then out for another loop!
https://www.strava.com/athletes/8529563
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Go-Miles/1603116773237821

I do find it amusing that the only rider working in kms is called 'Miles' though

 

[mcshroom]