[HN Gopher] What it's like to ride 900 km in a day
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What it's like to ride 900 km in a day
Author : giuliomagnifico
Score : 36 points
Date : 2021-11-20 20:10 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| iechoz6H wrote:
| Disclaimer: I have not read the article.
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| I have ridden 230 (hilly) km in a day (10.5 hours from start to
| finish, 9 hours actual pedalling time). So I'm going to guess
| that the conclusions are similar to mine, which are that it was
| tough and one simply can not eat enough salty potatoes.
| NotSammyHagar wrote:
| Great story, about someone trying for a record length one day
| bike ride - interestingly, it's not say Sydney to Brisbane but
| looping many times on a loop around 5k length. And I learned
| about the concept of bike packing.
| axiosgunnar wrote:
| Note that there is somebody mentioned in the article who did
| 1040+km in a day.
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| Maybe they should interview that person?
| lostlogin wrote:
| Then the title of the article would be misleading.
| Someone wrote:
| FTA: "In testing I knew that it was around 25 watts quicker"
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| What does that mean? My best guess is that, at speeds around his
| target speed, it takes 25 watts less power to ride at that speed,
| but that seems too huge a difference to give up on to me
| (https://cyclingtips.com/2021/07/1026-km-austrian-ultra-cycli...
| says the guy doing >1,000 km in 24 hours had a normalized power
| of 275W, so, assuming the two riders to be of similar weight,
| that would mean giving up about 10% of power))
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