In a 24 hour race, I did 76 miles in 2002, Ken Looi did 110 miles in a
24 hour race shortly after that. I dunno if anyone's done much more
than that off road, except may Ken at a later race.
On some offroad courses, 150 miles would be easy in 24 hours, whereas
other ones, it'd be hard to do 60. I've done a few 40 milers on the 26"
muni that has totally killed me, and a 30 mileish ride in Scotland in
big hills that caned me big time as it had over 4000 feet of climbing
and the same descending. Oh and big muni rides with other riders where
we've raced round 20 miles flat out and I've been dead by the end.
As for the long distance ride, I dunno who's ridden that distance, but
that isn't very fast, so I'd expect that if someone has ridden that
distance offroad before, they'd have a shorter time, as it's only like
15 miles a day.
I have a nagging desire to do the South Downs Way, which is an offroad
100 miler, with some big hills in it, and a couple of other riders
expressed an interest too. We'd be looking at aiming for 24 hours, cos
what's the point otherwise, but it kind of relies on me getting myself
super fit, which is a focus of the next 6 months or so. It's also
somewhat hard to ride in winter due to wet chalk, which is like ice to
ride on, so needs some careful planning and luck with September
weather.
Joe
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