Yearly Distance Record Attempt (Tommy Godwin - 75,065mi/120,000k)

A message from Steve on YACF;
"My 1500 miles last week was my best week this year to date.
From now on I need an average of 1750 a week.
Looking at last week I had a few sub 200 mile days which I should be able to improve on.
I am doing a fair bit of playing by ear and often change my daily plans to suit how things are going etc.
I expect to fall behind the required average weekly distance until mid July when I will need to ride above that average and keep it up for as long as I can then try not to fall behind it again until I have enough miles in the bank to be able to do so. I think it will take until August for me to be doing enough to regain my losses."

Thanks for sharing - incredible

Cycling Weakly reported two issues ago that a rider called Richard Nutt broke the weekly mileage record with 1,758 miles (~253 miles a day). It sounds as if Steve would be well capable of that.

Richard Nutt also did this last year:

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/strava-long-distance-struggle-ends-richard-nutt-129002

The winner was Canada’s Dave Pecuch with 7565 kilometres, an average of just over 253 kilometres per day for 30 days, which is a staggering, literally, performance.

Within reach for Steve, surely? I'm just thinking of other records he could set if the annual record doesn't work out somehow because of the injury break. Other people seem to be setting records over much shorter times at the sort of distances that Steve has been aiming to do for a year.

Is that a world record though or just the winner of that Strava competition?

They have definitely been doing more than 157 miles every day for a month

Highlight of today: running across the mighty @steve_abraham74 riding along at 19mph. Up a hill. Into a headwind. In the 9th hr of his ride.

— Michael Hutchinson (@Doctor_Hutch) June 17, 2015

Wednesday 17th Jun - 189.4 mi, 13:06:22 h, 4,970 ft

cumulative - 26,292.6 mi, 89:04:29:57 d, 738,642 ft

Thursday 18th Jun - 260.7 mi, 17:32:12 h, 5,630 ft

cumulative - 26,553.3 mi, 89:22:02:09 d, 744,272 ft

Long Day. Many miles.
#gosteve

Friday 19th Jun - 200.7 mi, 13:11:58 h, 4,984 ft

cumulative - 26,754.0 mi, 90:11:14:07 d, 749,256 ft

Saturday 20th Jun - 249.8 mi, 16:22:13 h, 3,694 ft

cumulative - 27,003.8 mi, 91:03:36:20 d, 752,950 ft

Sunday 21st Jun - 198.9 mi, 13:42:26 h, 4,465 ft

cumulative - 27,202.7 mi, 91:17:18:46 d, 757,415 ft

for reference, Tommy Godwin rode 361 miles on the summer solstice day... utterly incredible

Monday 22nd Jun - 135.0 mi, 10:28:36 h, 1,709 ft

cumulative - 27,337.7 mi, 92:03:47:22 d, 759,124 ft

He's not going to do it, is he.

Slacker! Pick it up Steve :P

Latest newsletter: http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/?u=f184c841a68a86ce82d222948&id=87cc69a110 hints otherwise:-

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Is record still achievable?

Yeah think so, otherwise would not be carrying on.
"

Do you still want to throttle the moped rider who injured you?
"No - never did"

Dead to Me.

How many sausages do you eat a day?

"1 every ten miles…"

Ledge

That's 2,733.77 sausages so far.

Assuming an average sausage is about 40g (based on a quick Google), that's 109.35Kg of sausages.

Can you tell i'm procrastinating at work?

And if you laid all of those sausages end-to-end it'd be one great big long sausage.

Assuming the average length of a breakfast sausage is about 5 inches or 12.7cm, you're looking at a total end to end length of ~347.18m or 1,139 feet and 1/2 and inch.

long sausages round your way...

cooked length 100mm maximum!

The missus disagrees.