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I just read a great Interview with John Stamstad, who I spoke about in the first post of this thread.
I mentioned before that he held the record for the most miles ridden off road in 24 hrs which stands at 354.5 miles...however...I now know the full story as John tells it.
Apparently he already held the record, which he set on a 'proper', challenging MTB course.
But then a woman called Amy Regan from Maine claimed that she almost beat his record...and would have if she hadn't been given the wrong information and stopped too early.
According to John, she'd found a really easy course which met the criteria of 2O,OOft of climbing and an unsealed surface, but was far less challenging.
John was so pissed off at her claims and general lack of respect for his achievement that he went and rode the course she'd found and smashed her distance by adding over a hundred miles on top of it.
He then tried to get both his new record and hers struck from the record books and his original distance to be used instead, as he didn't feel the easier course was in the true spirit of MTBing. :]
Just to add to his legendary status even more, the interview also mentioned the time when he ran around Moab's 1O3 mile White rim trail, non stop, and unsupported.
Water is so scarce in the area that he had to carry it all with him.
In typical Stamstad fashion he solved this little problem by hot-rodding his childs push chair.
He replaced the wheels with big fat MTB wheels, loaded it up with 5Olbs of sloshing water, then proceeded to push it around for 27hrs in temperatures over 1OOdeg. :]
Stamstad is a true legend!