Re:Logistics of biking 9833 miles in 409 days
by insane_dreamer on Monday November 14, 2022 @07:11PM
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Reminded me an ultra cycling event in the Pyrenees called 8848 where riders climb an altitude of 8848 meters (roughly the height of Everest) in a single long day (with rest stops, but not sleeping overnight).
Re:Logistics of biking 9833 miles in 409 days
by jamiek88 on Monday November 14, 2022 @07:42PM
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You’d be doing well to drive a car 250k miles in a year, never mind ride a bike!
Re:Logistics of biking 9833 miles in 409 days
by layer8 on Monday November 14, 2022 @07:58PM
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This made me realize that you don't actually need to reach escape velocity to leave Earth.
Re:Logistics of biking 9833 miles in 409 days
by dendrite9 on Monday November 14, 2022 @09:28PM
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I used to be on a running listserve that included monthly(quarterly?) updates on the million mile run. That kind of record keeping was beyond me, and I wasn't a terribly driven runner except in competition with a few friends. Still the scale of the race was hard to wrap my head around and you reminded me of it.
http://ice.he.net/~mmahoney/ultra/million.htm
Re:Logistics of biking 9833 miles in 409 days
by throwaway22032 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @07:38AM
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The record is also for distance traveled, not elevation change.
650 miles of elevation change in a single day is impossible once. Even a ridiculously steep gradient would have you travelling thousands of miles which would require an average speed of 100mph +, up a 20-30% gradient.
I don't even know if a car could ascend 650 miles in a day!
I misremembered and claimed they had climbed to the moon by bike in a year. That's about 650 miles per day, every day, for a year. It's likely beyond the world's best cyclists (the record is 637 miles in a single day, but not sustained over multiple days).