A 242-mile bike ride -- in 24 hours! Day Across MN, or DAMn

[billhammond]

www.mprnews.org/story/2024/08/13/challenge-of-the-damned-242-miles-24-hours-to-bike-across-minnesota

[TKennedy]

That's brutal. At least it's west to east. Better chance of a tailwind. I think my max in one day was 140 miles but Podium regular Ralph Olson used to do 200 mile rides.

I remember the old race across America. A real endurance classic.

I fell asleep on my bike once. it was a 100 mile event in Park Rapids and I had been up all night at the hospital and drove up there when I went off call. I was riding the last 20 or so and dozed off. A friend I was riding with grabbed me by the arm and held me up.

[billhammond]

This paragraph amazed me:


By the end of the day, 320 racers completed the DAMn out of 395 starters, the highest finish rate ever, according to Raygor. The youngest to roll out from Gary, 11-year-old Molly Ehlers, pedaled 121 miles of the route, a feat her parents dubbed “The Day Across Half of Minnesota.”

[billhammond]

Speaking of two-wheeled conveyances, I ran across this factoid today:

1921
After completing his first year of college at UW–Madison, Charles Lindbergh embarks on the first leg of what will be a more than 3,000-mile, seven-week ride on the Excelsior Series 20R motorcycle he bought in his hometown of Little Falls, Minn., a year earlier.

[jdd2]

Google up the PBP, LEL, RAAM, or the Indian-pacific for some other long distance riding. More audax instead of racing.

edit: local riding, someone here