Ultracycling

Currently in Wolverhampton apparently, seems to be making good time south

I got the impression from that indypac doc that he doesn't like be bothered when he's racing, so makes sense to keep this relatively low key and not publish his location or the route.

Gonna be pretty close it sounds.

> LEJOGLE UPDATE: It has been a tough night for Kristof. After the wild weather yesterday he suffered through the night, feeling the cold more than usual due to the exhaustion of five days on the road. Finding food was more difficult than normal and Kristof kept moving with the help of a 10 min picnic table nap. He’s having some trouble with his right pedal / cleat this morning but it’s all part of the fun. As the sun rises on Kristof’s last day on tour and we wait for more updates, here are some great shots from Richard Hoddinott as Kristof headed into Wigan yesterday morning. Thanks for sharing! Hopefully some folks can make it to Land’s End to welcome him later today. I’m sure he’d love that!

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So, did he make it...?

Think I saw somewhere looking like 3pm finish time

He's in with an empty tank. Can't tell if he's done it or not. All quite vague.

I assume from the tweet that he didn't do it, or he'd have said so.
It's a slightly unsatisfying mix of lack of info and phrases that read like they were written beforehand.
Still a great ride and without support he must have lost a few hours fixing his punctures, finding food, etc.

Finding food was more difficult than normal

Well, did he not realise he was racing in Britain?

Assuming he arrived not long before his tweet, it looks like he was within four hours unless I have my mental arithmetic wrong. Given his first night of punctures, some other mechanicals and the weather on the way back, I wonder if he'll have another go at some point

Think I saw him on the A30 near Newquay yesterday at about 11:30 - pissing with rain, terrible visibility, massively busy road. Looked GRIM.

Sounds like he was outside of the record, but was treating it as just another ride also to some extent. Can't wrap my head around cycling the length of the UK and back in 6 days. He's quite something. Would have been nice to watch his dot, however it's apparent the under-radar approach works in Kristof's style.

After 5 days 21 hours and 24 minutes, Kristof Allegaert finished his
incredible unsupported #LEJOGLE ride. Kristof set himself the task of
riding the iconic touring route from Lands End to John O’Groats and
back again faster than anyone before him. The trip covering the
furthest distance between two inhabited points on the British mainland
is a rite of passage for British endurance athletes and a bucket-list
adventure for more conventional cycle-tourists. Typically cyclists
take 10 - 14 days to complete the journey in one direction, Kristof
completed an out-and-back journey. What makes Kristof’s effort
remarkable is that he did it without any support crew. It was just
Kristof, his Curve Cycling titanium bicycle (that he has named
Natascha), and his credit card. No one else. If you saw him on the
road, he looked like any other cyclist. You needed to be in on the
secret to know his mission. He had to fix his own mechanical issues,
find food and water, locate places to sleep all without any support
car to shield him from heavy traffic. He finished 16 minutes slower
than the fastest supported LEJOGLE ride.

Kristof didn’t carry a tracker for his holiday ride and seemed
surprised by the attention. For him endurance cycling has been in his
life for so long that it is as natural as breathing. For him it was
just another ride. A personal challenge. He let us follow his trip
through a few messages and photos along the way. There are plenty of
other adventures that are purely private to him - we will never know
about them.

Kristof has never been beaten in an unsupported endurance event but
still he seeks new challenges. So who does Kristof race when there is
no one left to race? Himself.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1111541282342378&substory_index=0&id=166262473536935

Must not comment.

16 minutes 😱

Must be tempting to. Especially this line:

So who does Kristof race when there is no one left to race? Himself.

Let's see KA at TCR next year and settle this. 🔥

It's jessie not kristof. Maybe it just Australian thing. Dunno but it's weird.

16 mins off the lejogle "record" but a fair bit more away from the joglejog ride of James McDonald, I think.

Interesting, I was surprised to read as close as 16 minutes. He was aiming for five and a half days which would have been 6am on Saturday so he was c.8-10 hours behind his schedule.

Hard to unpick the other stuff. Essentially Jesse wants to sell bikes and 'Kristof the legend' is helpful for that. But he needs material to work with for the insta feed.

Who knows what Kristof wants - he is his own guy who does things on his own terms or not at all. He never raced before the TCR came along and virtually went past his house. The message fits in with my hunch that he might not race again. He likes some aspects of it but only tolerates others (always with good grace). I can't see a showdown with the young pretender being on his agenda somehow. The last showdown (with Mike) didn't end well.

It was just Kristof, his Curve Cycling titanium bicycle (that he has named Natascha), and his credit card. No one else.

Not subtle, really annoying. Curve is pretty tedious for this relentless product placement and spamming.

I've just seen a slightly fuller write-up Jesse has done on the Curve site
https://www.curvecycling.com.au/blogs/news/kristof-allegaert-vs-3-026km-lejogle

The main thing that struck me was that his route looks scenic rather than fast! I guess this wasn't really a serious record attempt.

That's not his route... or at least not all of it. He went through Milnathort and Perth (as reported on FB). Outbound is quoted at 1350km in the article, which is pretty direct.

Thinking about it, he was also filmed in Preston so definitely not right.
That's good as it would be crazy to use that route on a record attempt. But a bit odd to post a route that he didn't do...

If he had no tracker did he even record his route? It might be that was the first image they could find on a search for a lejog route.

Very very strange, but I'm 95% sure that's a map I drew of my LEJOG route a few years back. I say that because I took an odd route (wanted to ride Cheddar Gorge, dipping across to Sheffield to ride the peaks and see a mate, Glencoe etc...) plus that yellow star in the Lake District is on Eskdale and is one I always have on my google maps (not sure why, must have reviewed/rated it or something)... I guess they googled LEJOG route map and that came up, but I don't remember putting it online somewhere and if I did it would only have been on here...

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/12406153/

I'm on the phone but does look to have been lifted from this very forum.