Land’s End to John O’Groats….have a quick look around and buy a postcard…then cycle back to Land’s End!
Regardless of whether you like cycling or not, this is a mind-bender that deserves a little of your time. Apparently, he is using this attempt as training for the Race Across America later in the year (3,000 miles which he completed in 2005 in 12 days)! I rode 948 miles in 12 days and I was ready for a sit down after that.
A report from road.cc is available at http://road.cc/content/news/79933-chris-hopkinson-attempt-lejogle-record-next-week
If you are on Twitter, send Chris a good luck message to @hoppo347
I’m not sure how many miles it will be but let’s assume it’s the bare minimum each way so that’s 874 x 2 = 1,748. Assuming it’s 24 hour riding (and he suffers no injuries) then that works out at 12.5mph average. Not very fast you say…factor in the hills, the amount of time in the saddle, enforced breaks for the call of nature and the potential for rubbish weather and this attempt starts to make the hairs on the back of your neck rise. I’m not pretending to know anything about how you would attempt something like this, I just thought it was worth blogging; the numbers involved are astounding.
I’ll be watching the outcome of this with interest. Best of luck and best of British mate!
