[_kyran]

My dad has done it twice and I believe the first time (56:13:00) he didn't sleep at all. The second time, 12 years later was 70:21:00.

Congrats on the ride! I still don't quite understand what it takes to be able to push through beyond what most people would consider immense fatigue.

Did you find it harder physically or mentally?

[blasdel]

If he were an American, that time would put your father in La Société Charly Miller: https://rusa.org/pages/CharlyMiller

I had fun the whole time!

Mentally I don't really suffer anything, though I did cry like a baby while riding through misty valleys at dawn the third day. I had realized I'd crossed into Normandy, and got emotional from working out from first principles why I new that detail of french geography. In the first town I passed through in daylight the locals were hanging up large banners for their 75th Anniversary of Liberation by the US Army.

I had a few serious physical setbacks from my ankle, losing a cleat bolt, a wrong turn — but it was easy to run into old friends out on the course to regroup and make new friends along the way helping each other out of predicaments.

I lost a lot of my endurance abilities from Covid, so when I do it again I will definitely be shooting for a different goal: https://adrianhandssociety.com/