Thanks for that interesting read! Too bad you had those nutrition issues that inevitably led to other issues. But cool to see support from the kickscooter champ and so many other people 
Recover fully soon, and once again congrats on your records! 
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Good for you!
BRAVO!
Sorry you got sick, any ideas why?
I would assume there is some video, any chance we could see please!
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Congratulations Lisanne! As always so impressive.
Somehow I hadn’t heard about your attempt in advance, but I was not at all surprised when I did read about it.
Hopefully you’re feeling better and I can congratulate you personally this weekend at the Bavarian Track race - I see that you are signed up, fortunately not in my division.
Not anything close to a world record, but some of my biggest athletic achievements from almost 25 years ago still remain great memories: you remember all the hard work and physical and mental suffering but in a somewhat more positive frame.
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Congratulations that is really great! In 1991 I also drove a 24 -hour record with a 26er and had a terribly uncomfortable saddle. I can understand your suffering too well. I congratulate you to your 24 -hour record. You can be really proud of yourself.
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I rate that as one of the greatest feats in unicycling, and can’t be compared with what I did this year (26/130 vs 36/100).
That’s why we need standard class for world records!
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Thanks for the writeup Lisanne…I was reliving my own record attempt while watching your lap times and livestream. I knew exactly what you were going through!
Did you have any issues with sleep deprivation? Why did you start at 5pm?
Congratulations again…
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Well done on your accomplishment. Rest and recover.
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This is not fully correct. 4:59:34 is the Dutch male record, which still stands. The female 100km unilimited record was as yet unclaimed, so it has not been beaten by Lisanne, but set. It would be correct to say that she was faster than the current male record.
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I didn’t come on this forum for quite some time, and thus didn’t see this topic. As one of the three known persons in the world having done more than you, I want to congratulate you once more, you did extremely good. I am especially impressed by the short amount of breaks you took. Both times I participated in this kind of events, I took several hours of accumulated rest (7h36 and 5h25). I used a G29 which seems to be faster than a 36er, which allowed me to get 1 km more than you.
I also remember it was painful as hell, and both times I wanted it to never happen again (and I want to go for it again). Those kind of things are absolutely horrible and yet marvelous.
All that to say : “Congratulations !!!”
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When read how you present it: “absolutely horrible”, then this doesn’t really stimulate me to give it a try.
And I wanted to say I have nothing to prove, but actually I had to prove was to @Ulkicycling that I could ride the wheel I got from him. And by comparison riding a 36" UW is “absolutely wonderful”, though I won’t go for 300+ kms on it. First aim will be 1km 
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More than absolutely horrible, a 24 hours is a lot of very high and very low moments, with a lot of pain.
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@LisanneB @Aurelien do you think saddle pain suffering is different between a man and a woman, given the slight anatomical differences? What about short term (a few hours), long term (meaning like several hours), pain location, lasting pain over the following days, if any…?
I don’t know for sure, since I have never experienced riding a unicycle with female genitals.
However, with a firm saddle and aero bars, I have usually no troubles linked to me being a man. I have obviously butt soreness, but not much pain in a more frontal area. I have had numbing with a less firm saddle, which is uncomfortable, but not that bad. I have also had once testicular pain that lasted for several days (on contact), probably because I sat badly and decided I could wait a few kilometers before adjusting everything.
I have basically no long term pain after this kind of rides, except for some soreness and chaffing, which can last for up to a week.
So, at least with my setup, and at the condition that you manage correctly your stuff, there shouldn’t be much differences between male and female on this topic.
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Maybe wait until you’ve had children before the next attempt 
I had no trouble with saddle pain with my 2025 attempt, but had a lot of saddle pain and numbness with my 2005 attempt.
These are the two setups:
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2025
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It’s likely that Lisanne rode slightly further than you. Under current IUF world record guidelines, the distance is taken from the inner circumference of the circuit. So there will be an extra distance of 2π x how far she rode out from the inner edge, compared to a GPS measurement.
are those elbow rests? Is that comfortable on a uni?
Yes they are, and they are extremely comfortable (on road), especially at high speeds or for long time spans (several hours or more).
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Just in theory when riding directly on that circle, the upper body would be on the inside of that circle. In case the GPS device is fixed to the upper body, it would be on the inside too.
However, the wiggeling of the unicycle is not measured by the new rules.
The aerobars help spread weight to reduce the load on your bottom.
Elbow pads add two extra contact (pressure) points, so you have 7 instead of 5.
With my 2005 setup, I was struggling with saddle pain because my weight was concentrated above the axle. I spent a lot of energy pushing myself off the seat rather than resting my arms.
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Most of us do not ride that close to the inner circumference. Also it hasn’t been established whether the measurement is taken from the contact point of the wheel or a part of the rider. For track racing it’s taken from the leading edge of the wheel.
Lisanne had a very large track so would have been fairly upright even on the turns.
Not all riders wiggle. A wheel can pivot along the vertical axis and still travel in a relatively straight line.
If you are measuring distance covered, adding wheel wiggle is like adding wiggle distance to a runner whose foot strike is not directly in front of the last one.
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