100k WR attempt, May 18th

I’m attempting the 100k WR this Sunday!
It will take place on a ~910 m road loop. I will have to do 110 laps: a first of 873.22m followed by 109 laps of 909.42m.

Starting at 9:00 AM (Paris time / UTC+2), on May 18th.

:round_pushpin: Live lap tracking will be available here:

I will try to do better than @Aurelien and @redwelly

I set myself this challenge because I thought I was capable of doing 100km at over 30kph, now I have to do it!

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Good luck! An average of 30mph would be an amazing achievement and I’m sure you can do it! Enjoy!
Sam

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30 mph average would indeed be very impressive!

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Records are made to be broken. I hope you pull it off!

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Best of luck! I really hope you achieve your goals! :star_struck:

This just boggles my mind on so many levels. The speed is just ridiculous. You are going to complete a 100 in less that 3.5 hours. Surely you have to take a stretching break at some point? Or are you actually planning to grind through in one session?:flexed_biceps:

And what is your gear? A G36? This is just in such a different league to anything I can relate to that I am completely stumped here :joy:

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Good luck! Please share more details of your setup etc. after the event …'cause …we wanna know!

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Good luck, Simon! I’ll be asleep while you make the attempt but I hope to wake to good news! :raising_hands:t3:

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from the tracking it looks like he’s gonna do it

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from the tracking it looks like he did it.

Congratulations with the great effort

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:100:f-pulse: :partying_face:f-bounce:

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Yeah I did it! The official time (to submit) is 3 hours, 6 minutes, 29 seconds.

I had ideal weather conditions; it was hard to imagine such conditions.
The wind picked up for the last 20 kilometers, and I caught a few gusts that scared me a little, given my advanced state of fatigue. But I was able to cross the finish line without having to put my foot down, without even having left the aerobars for the entire race.
I’ll give you more details when I have photos and videos to share. I can already tell you that my unicycle frame is a Flansberrium V-frame :fire: and my pedals are Magped Road1 (magnetic).

There’s a difference of more than 2 km between the GPS data and the official track measurement. It’s frustrating! :laughing:

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Congratulations, very impressive effort!

I would say better to have the GPS say a bit more distance than to get people questioning because the GPS reads less…

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Very impressive, congratulations to the champion!!!

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Congratulations, Simon!

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Congratulations! :tada:
As someone who usually cruises at half that speed for a sixth of that time, I‘m thoroughly impressed.
What‘s next? 24h?

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There is a little gap between 30kph and 30mph. I should perhaps have written 30km/h to avoid any confusion.
Today my average speed was 20mph (32.18km/h).

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Fantastic ride. I was up last night watching your laps

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It’s very rational, but during the effort, when I’ve just been told that I have 3 laps left and halfway through the lap the watch starts beeping to tell me that I’ve done 100 km, it’s not cool at all. :laughing:
Besides, at 2 laps and 1 lap, I didn’t hear/understand any audible indication of the number of laps remaining (I still heard fictitious bells in my head :exploding_head: for the last crossing of the finish line…). When I finished the 110th lap, I doubted it was over… :zany_face:

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When I did my attempt, I counted every lap in my head (every 6 laps, which was around 5 minutes), I manually setted a new lap on my watch, to keep track of my speed). It was really hard to keep track of how many laps I did, but I knew at the end that I had done all 250 laps I had to do.

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Wow! It would have taken too much energy to count. I was just trying to figure out if I was at the beginning, the middle, or the end :laughing:. On my watch, I only had my heart rate and distance. I also had a lap counter on the line, but I don’t know if the last lap was at 109 or 110 :exploding_head:. And especially in the last 5 laps, I wasn’t looking at it anymore; all my attention was required to be as vigilant as possible on my effort so as not to slow down too much and not get caught in a gust of wind.

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