24 hour event

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LSMike said:

Some of you may remember I posted about a mate who was going to do a 24
hour solo endurance event, looking for audax routes to train on.
Anyway, thought I'd post about his incredible achievement this weekend:

HANS SOLO (LSST) 493:24km at a speed of 20:39 km/hour for second place.
118 laps and came 419th in the general classification out of nearly
600 entries, most of which were teams of up to 10 skaters. What a
nutter, I've never seen such incredible endurance, dreadful pain, and
physical toughness in a human being. Every time I think about the race
and the finish and Hans, it brings tears to my eyes.

At least with bikes you get to sit down :-)

LSMike said:

Some of you may remember I posted about a mate who was going to do a 24
hour solo endurance event, looking for audax routes to train on.
Anyway, thought I'd post about his incredible achievement this weekend:

HANS SOLO (LSST) 493:24km at a speed of 20:39 km/hour for second place.
118 laps and came 419th in the general classification out of nearly
600 entries, most of which were teams of up to 10 skaters. What a
nutter, I've never seen such incredible endurance, dreadful pain, and
physical toughness in a human being. Every time I think about the race
and the finish and Hans, it brings tears to my eyes.

LondonSkaters Speed Team One - 748.22km total - 31.08km/hour average
speed - 179 laps of the Bugatti circuit. 12th position in the general
classification. This was my team, I was so proud to skate with them!

The hardest part for us was the battle in the last three hours, where
we were 13th at the time, and 14th team, RSVP attacked hard. It took
us an hour and a half of back breaking work to stave them off, and they
eventually cracked and blew up. As part of this battle we overtook
12th, Valence Roller Skating, which initiated another battle with the
lead to-ing and fro-ing between us. We eventually beat them in the
final 500m sprint thanks to our fastest and only pro skater Gav.

Wow, that's incredible. Congratulations to all of you. RAAM next year?
:-)

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On 5 Jul 2006 05:18:07 -0700, "LSMike" <[email hidden]>

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HANS SOLO (LSST) 493:24km at a speed of 20:39 km/hour for second place.
118 laps and came 419th in the general classification out of nearly
600 entries, most of which were teams of up to 10 skaters. What a
nutter, I've never seen such incredible endurance, dreadful pain, and
physical toughness in a human being. Every time I think about the race
and the finish and Hans, it brings tears to my eyes.

That really is a quite incredible feat, kudos.

"Bob"
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On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 13:22:35 +0100, Rob Morley <[email hidden]>

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HANS SOLO (LSST) 493:24km at a speed of 20:39 km/hour for second place.
118 laps and came 419th in the general classification out of nearly
600 entries, most of which were teams of up to 10 skaters. What a
nutter, I've never seen such incredible endurance, dreadful pain, and
physical toughness in a human being. Every time I think about the race
and the finish and Hans, it brings tears to my eyes.

At least with bikes you get to sit down :-)

With some bikes (*smug*) you get to lie down.

"Bob"
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Call me Bob said:

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 13:22:35 +0100, Rob Morley <[email hidden]>

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HANS SOLO (LSST) 493:24km at a speed of 20:39 km/hour for second place.
118 laps and came 419th in the general classification out of nearly
600 entries, most of which were teams of up to 10 skaters. What a
nutter, I've never seen such incredible endurance, dreadful pain, and
physical toughness in a human being. Every time I think about the race
and the finish and Hans, it brings tears to my eyes.

At least with bikes you get to sit down :-)

With some bikes (*smug*) you get to lie down.

I have a plan that involves an old BMX and a welder ...

Call me Bob said:

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 13:22:35 +0100, Rob Morley <[email hidden]>

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At least with bikes you get to sit down :-)

With some bikes (*smug*) you get to lie down.

"Bob"

The state of Hans' feet after the race was not good, especially given
that he started with a blister from the previous weekend's racing in
Engadine.

I'm not sure I could do that distance in 24 hours on my Hurricane right
now, not without a bunch of training. The downhill would be fun on a
bent though, it sure was on skates. There's one fast lefthander where
we were doing crossovers at 50km/hour, which was a new one for me.

How's the Taifun going, Bob?

On 5 Jul 2006 23:52:09 -0700, "LSMike" <[email hidden]>

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I'm not sure I could do that distance in 24 hours on my Hurricane right
now

Me neither.

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The downhill would be fun on a
bent though, it sure was on skates. There's one fast lefthander where
we were doing crossovers at 50km/hour, which was a new one for me.

This skating malarkey you keep giving us updates on does sound fun.
The sunday regular sound excellent, makes me wish I could skate
myself. I think at some point I'm going to have to have a bash.

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How's the Taifun going, Bob?

Fantastic! Almost at 2000 miles total for the 'bent now, and still
nothing but good words for it.

I seem to have had a bit of a hill climbing breakthrough recently. I
don't know if it's just the fact that my legs are now properly adapted
or if I've just found a technique that suits me better. Bit of both I
expect.

I was previously dropping right down the gears and spinning upwards,
something I routinely do on my uprights, but this method never seemed
to quite click for me on the Taifun and I've felt quite slow and
inefficient uphill. I've discovered though that I'm now able to simply
give it much more welly. It works very well for short inclines that
on an upright I'd stand and honk up. It feels like I'm now able to get
a similar amount of power into the 'bent and can sprint up minor
hills, and even when the incline is longer I can spin but with a more
powerful motion. It feels great.

My comfortable day range is now up to about the 100km mark, and I've
been getting all over the place in the recent good weather. I've taken
it on lots of the local Sustrans and leisure trails - Tissington, the
High Peak, Manifold, Nutbrook - and I've found a cracking local train
service which neatly whisks me and bike from Derby into the heart of
the White Peak in about 20 minutes flat for less than 4 quid (gotta
fit that triple chainset!).

I've not had so much fun on a bike since I was a 12 year old boy
tear-arsing about on a BMX. I'm hooked, I intend to own a recumbent
bike till the day I turn up my toes.

How's your young apprentice getting on with his KMX?

"Bob"
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My comfortable day range is now up to about the 100km mark, and I've
been getting all over the place in the recent good weather. I've taken
it on lots of the local Sustrans and leisure trails - Tissington, the
High Peak, Manifold, Nutbrook - and I've found a cracking local train
service which neatly whisks me and bike from Derby into the heart of
the White Peak in about 20 minutes flat for less than 4 quid (gotta
fit that triple chainset!).

Mmmm, Manifold. I remember some particularly amusing climbing out of that
valley - is that what you've been training your legs on?

cheers,
clive