Well done! That’s amazingly fast. I can barely keep that pace up for 10 miles.
Chuck might have been faster on a century he rode two or three years ago. I don’t have time now to check the archives.
Geoff
This ride was part of my training for El Tour, and was scheduled to be my longest training ride, originally planned for 85 miles. About a week out, I got it in my head to go for 100 if I felt good. So there wasn’t a big build-up, and I didn’t feel a lot of self-imposed pressure. I was a bit nervy the first ten miles, and I was convinved that my tire was going flat for the next ten (it wasn’t). Then I just settled into riding. My watch was auto-lapping every ten miles, and they were all pretty consistent around 13.6mph. I kept my stops short, even when I had to refill water at convenience stores. The first part of the ride was a lot of uphill, a lot of downhill in the second third, and pretty flat for the last half. I had to concentrate a lot in the last ten miles to keep moving at a good pace.
Good luck on doing a century on a 24 guni - sounds tough to me!
Surely, someone out there has done it faster. I have to say it is way faster than I thought I could do even a few months ago.
yah, it was on the post right before yours
“Takayuki Koike - Guinness record holder, 6hrs44min, August 1987, 42” wheel with short cranks (no dismounts!)"
perhaps you should add your name to the list.
I haven’t quite gone 100km in a single ride, let alone 100 miles. I couldn’t imagine doing it with no dismounts!
Maybe after I get my hub back I will try to add my name to the list.
Yep, Terry pointed that out in the other thread I started. That is a truly fast time. I don’t think I have the leg strength/endurance for that kind of pace. My legs were the limiting factor on my ride. I was well under max cardio-wise.
Yeah it probably will be. However I’ve been logging lot’s of miles on this set up since July including several 30-50 mile rides all in the 12-13mph average range. So I think just slowing down a bit and minding my caloric intake and hydration it should be doable to go sub 10 hours (my main goal). Seems reasonable as I did a hilly 50 miler in a little over 4 hours last month and felt pretty good at the end.
Congrats on a fast century. I think your speed/time was probably increased by the little bit of climbing. If you didnt have any sustained 10% uphill sections, the uphill would not hurt you, as much as the superfast geared downhill would help you.
Go to Italy and compete!
FINALLY, after several years in of planning, delayed and pushed back attempts I checked off another item on my bucket list! Glorious Fall day on the Chief Ladiga - Silver Comet paved/cement rail trail (zero car traffic) between Piedmont, AL and Hiram, GA (near Atlanta). If anybody has goals of setting a fast uni century, this is place. Very reasonable grades, smooth and fast surface, no car traffic to worry about. Just a great place to go FAST!
Peter Bier
David Stone
Roger Davies
Alan Chambers
Steve Colligan
Mark Wiggins
Takayuki Koike - Guinness record holder, 6hrs44min, August 1987, 42" wheel with short cranks (no dismounts!)
Lars Clausen
Ken Looi
Floyd Beattie
Johnnie Severin
Cathy Fox
Bruce Dawson
Jack Hughes
Dan Heaton
Scot Cooper
Sam Wakeling
Chuck Edwall
Joe Marshall
John Himsworth
Gracie Sorbello
Rowan Chivers
Tony Melton
Tim Lee
Joe Lind
Rob Muellerleile
Irene Genelin
Beau Hoover
Nathan Hoover
Mike Scalisi
Ryan Woessner
?~Xivind Johansen
Kjetil Juul Pedersen
James Amon
Leif Rustvold
Max Taint
Mark Osmundo
Mike Tierney
Joseph Sherman
Roland Kays
Claude Magnuson
Jan Logemann
Zeke Boisei
Paul Stacey
Joe Myers
Matthew Huber
Tom Blackwood
Sid Rajan
Dave Cox
Matthiew Rojda
Kevin Williams
Jack Olsen
Monty McFly
Matt Thomas
Geoff Houghton
Svein Petter Vangsoy
Frank Brown
Terry Peterson
Dan Hansen
David Smith
Philip Schleihauf
Frank Dugrillon
Erich Bevensee [10/09/10 Chilean/German,45,Ungeared 36"]
Bill “Rhino” Mueller (10/29/10 - 42, 102 miles,10hr.51min.,ungeared 36)
Jeff Chamblee (June 5, 2011, USA, 46, Ungeared 36", 100.2 miles, 14 hrs 15min)
John Foss - 6/12/11, SilvaCycles KH/Schlumpf 36" (76 miles), 2002 Coker Deluxe with 125mm cranks (25 miles)
Jeff Ray 12/26/09 KH 125mm cranks ungeared. SILVER COMET/CHIEF LADIGA Anniston, AL to Atlanta GA.
Benjamin Richardson 12/28/10 KH 125mm Cranks ungeared - 30 miles of SNOW - I’m claiming to be the first TYPE 1 Diabetic to ride 100 miles (actually clocked 101.1) in a day solo. SILVER COMET/CHIEF LADIGA Anniston, AL to Atlanta, GA. 13 hours 11 minutes
Andy Moore
Robert Youngren 11-07-2011, 8 hours 42 minutes, KH/Schlumpf 24" with 140mm cranks, Chief Ladiga - Silver Comet trail from Piedmont, Alabama to mile 13 marker on Silver Comet then back to Cedartown, Georgia for the finish.
Great job! That is an excellent time on a 24’’ wheel (geared or not).
Ooops, wrong date! Fixed it.
Peter Bier
David Stone
Roger Davies
Alan Chambers
Steve Colligan
Mark Wiggins
Takayuki Koike - Guinness record holder, 6hrs44min, August 1987, 42" wheel with short cranks (no dismounts!)
Lars Clausen
Ken Looi
Floyd Beattie
Johnnie Severin
Cathy Fox
Bruce Dawson
Jack Hughes
Dan Heaton
Scot Cooper
Sam Wakeling
Chuck Edwall
Joe Marshall
John Himsworth
Gracie Sorbello
Rowan Chivers
Tony Melton
Tim Lee
Joe Lind
Rob Muellerleile
Irene Genelin
Beau Hoover
Nathan Hoover
Mike Scalisi
Ryan Woessner
?~Xivind Johansen
Kjetil Juul Pedersen
James Amon
Leif Rustvold
Max Taint
Mark Osmundo
Mike Tierney
Joseph Sherman
Roland Kays
Claude Magnuson
Jan Logemann
Zeke Boisei
Paul Stacey
Joe Myers
Matthew Huber
Tom Blackwood
Sid Rajan
Dave Cox
Matthiew Rojda
Kevin Williams
Jack Olsen
Monty McFly
Matt Thomas
Geoff Houghton
Svein Petter Vangsoy
Frank Brown
Terry Peterson
Dan Hansen
David Smith
Philip Schleihauf
Frank Dugrillon
Erich Bevensee [10/09/10 Chilean/German,45,Ungeared 36"]
Bill “Rhino” Mueller (10/29/10 - 42, 102 miles,10hr.51min.,ungeared 36)
Jeff Chamblee (June 5, 2011, USA, 46, Ungeared 36", 100.2 miles, 14 hrs 15min)
John Foss - 6/12/11, SilvaCycles KH/Schlumpf 36" (76 miles), 2002 Coker Deluxe with 125mm cranks (25 miles)
Jeff Ray 12/26/09 KH 125mm cranks ungeared. SILVER COMET/CHIEF LADIGA Anniston, AL to Atlanta GA.
Benjamin Richardson 12/28/10 KH 125mm Cranks ungeared - 30 miles of SNOW - I’m claiming to be the first TYPE 1 Diabetic to ride 100 miles (actually clocked 101.1) in a day solo. SILVER COMET/CHIEF LADIGA Anniston, AL to Atlanta, GA. 13 hours 11 minutes
Andy Moore
Robert Youngren 11-06-2011, 8 hours 42 minutes, KH/Schlumpf 24" with 137mm cranks, Chief Ladiga - Silver Comet trail from Piedmont, Alabama to mile 13 marker on Silver Comet then back to Cedartown, Georgia for the finish.
Nicely done MuniSano. Way under 9 hours too, that is really moving right along. Great job showing up prepared and delivering on your goal
Thanks. Prepared I was. At the end of July of this year, just a couple weeks after finishing the Badwater 135 mile in Death Valley, I sustained a stress fracture to my calcaneous (heel bone) while mountain unicycling in Moab, Utah. So I’ve been unable to run for the past 3 months. Rather than get out of shape and depressed I decide to unicycle A LOT. I stayed off the trails and other sketchy terrain where I might risk further damage to my heel; this meant a lot of road/paved path riding. So, for better or worse I’m in probably the best unicycling shape of my life right now. So I figured now was the time to attempt a 100 miler on my unicycle! It was great fun, the perfect day (the fall foliage was incredible!), and only had one short “bad patch”.
I’m so happy I chose the Chief Ladiga - Silver Comet Rail Trail for my ride; awesome bike path! There are some good long sections on the Silver Comet side (Georgia) that would be perfect for record attempts. Flat, smooth, traffic free and FAST!
I’m also very stoked that I got this ride done on my 24" GUni. The trend seems to do centuries on 36ers. With all the riding I’ve been doing I honestly feel more comfortable on my 24" geared set up than I do on my Coker 36er (even my times over the same courses agree with this). Maybe I just like to spin more? Don’t know. I just like the idea of having ONE unicycle to do it all. Swap the tire and I’m offroad; I’ve done 50 miles of single track on this set up as well; now a 100 miler on pavement! Pretty diverse I’d say!
However, if I were to do something like this again it would be fun to try to go after the record. I can totally see a well tuned, geared 36er as the way to go. I just can’t afford it! Because outside of doing an event like this I’d really have no practical use for a geared 36er.
Congrats to everybody on this list, I’m very thankful to finally join the ranks.
Ride Report
If anybody’s interested, I wrote up a report about my 100 mile unicycling experience. Read On.
Duuuuuuude! Great write-up. I read the whole thing, and now I’m late for work! (It’s OK because I’m the owner/operator.)
Congratulations!
I can’t wait to read all about your 100 mile adventure Rob! Nicely done! 
I can’t wait to ride with you again.
If anybody should wonder what I did yesterday …
Wow, that’s 143 miles, congrats! But you should give DETAILS!
Sure, here they come. I was just too busy today, since I had to cope with everything I could not do yesterday …
I started 5:48 in the morning with my geared KH36/145mm. The route I choose was a circuit of 2,35km (1.5mi). It is a nice little road through meadows and little forests. There is little traffic – at times cyclists and people with dogs, here and then a car or a tractor. The surface is good, but there is a sharp turn, disrupting the flow and there is a little Hill, which turns over time into a mountain.
With this trip I tied a few personal records:
- Longest daytrip 230km (143 mi)
- Longest time unicycling – 16:10, 13:35 actually cycling
- First 100:10:1 (9:35)
- Longest distance non-stop - 102km (63mi) all in 2. gear
- Longest time non-stop (5:11)
Marathon time was 2:05, 100km in 5:04 and 200km in 13:22. Fuel consumption was at about 4,1 l/100km ;). What else to say? A spoke broke at km 134 (83mi), which prevented me from using the second gear, but at that point in time I was anyway too tired for it. The last third or a bit more I found extremely hard. I had issues sitting and my digestion was complaining. Certainly it was a bit too hot and not a good idea to cycle the first five hours non-stop. It would have been better to stop regularly right from the start. However it started well and I was convinced the little hill would anyway drop me off sometimes. I managed to pass it 43 times. I was still cycling but after 100km I decided to stop it.
Finally got a century ride under my belt in a most untraditional manner. This past Friday and Saturday I competed in the Powderhorn 24 hour race (write up by Max). I rode 95 miles in the actual race, so I did the extra 5 right at the end. It actually took me 23 hours and 42 minutes to finish the 100 miles so it still counts as a century (since it was within 24 hours). My rolling time on the other hand was a bit faster at 6 hours and 48 minutes! That’s only 4 minutes off the world record. Of course I had lots of breaks, but the race course also involved stop signs and lights as well as a checkpoint every mile or so that I had to stop at. Definitely not the typical 100 mile ride, but I’m still proud to say I’ve done a century.
Peter Bier
David Stone
Roger Davies
Alan Chambers
Steve Colligan
Mark Wiggins
Takayuki Koike - Guinness record holder, 6hrs44min, August 1987, 42" wheel with short cranks (no dismounts!)
Lars Clausen
Ken Looi
Floyd Beattie
Johnnie Severin
Cathy Fox
Bruce Dawson
Jack Hughes
Dan Heaton
Scot Cooper
Sam Wakeling
Chuck Edwall
Joe Marshall
John Himsworth
Gracie Sorbello
Rowan Chivers
Tony Melton
Tim Lee
Joe Lind
Rob Muellerleile
Irene Genelin
Beau Hoover
Nathan Hoover
Mike Scalisi
Ryan Woessner
?~Xivind Johansen
Kjetil Juul Pedersen
James Amon
Leif Rustvold
Max Taint
Mark Osmundo
Mike Tierney
Joseph Sherman
Roland Kays
Claude Magnuson
Jan Logemann
Zeke Boisei
Paul Stacey
Joe Myers
Matthew Huber
Tom Blackwood
Sid Rajan
Dave Cox
Matthiew Rojda
Kevin Williams
Jack Olsen
Monty McFly
Matt Thomas
Geoff Houghton
Svein Petter Vangsoy
Frank Brown
Terry Peterson
Dan Hansen
David Smith
Philip Schleihauf
Frank Dugrillon
Erich Bevensee [10/09/10 Chilean/German,45,Ungeared 36"]
Bill “Rhino” Mueller (10/29/10 - 42, 102 miles,10hr.51min.,ungeared 36)
Jeff Chamblee (June 5, 2011, USA, 46, Ungeared 36", 100.2 miles, 14 hrs 15min)
John Foss - 6/12/11, SilvaCycles KH/Schlumpf 36" (76 miles), 2002 Coker Deluxe with 125mm cranks (25 miles)
Jeff Ray 12/26/09 KH 125mm cranks ungeared. SILVER COMET/CHIEF LADIGA Anniston, AL to Atlanta GA.
Benjamin Richardson 12/28/10 KH 125mm Cranks ungeared - 30 miles of SNOW - I’m claiming to be the first TYPE 1 Diabetic to ride 100 miles (actually clocked 101.1) in a day solo. SILVER COMET/CHIEF LADIGA Anniston, AL to Atlanta, GA. 13 hours 11 minutes
Andy Moore
Robert Youngren 11-06-2011, 8 hours 42 minutes, KH/Schlumpf 24" with 137mm cranks, Chief Ladiga - Silver Comet trail from Piedmont, Alabama to mile 13 marker on Silver Comet then back to Cedartown, Georgia for the finish.
Scott Wilton