- 10 x's over the Continental Divide - Over 14,272 ft. Grey's Peak - 37,000 ft. Vertical Climbing Under a Full Moon Last year’s men’s winner, Josh Tostada, pounded out a record 140 miles and climbed a vicious 30,895 feet in those 24 hours, the equivalent of ascending Mt. Everest (and then some). Women's champ, Jari Kirkland, managed an incredible 122 miles and ascended an unimaginable 25,926 feet before the stroke of 4:00 p.m 24 hours of moab i am 86.4 of all. 85.4 of men. 99.9 of women.
18 hour (6 x 3hrs?) cycling record of 261.5 miles was beaten by both Lottie Stanley (269 miles) and Jessie Wood (263 miles) on Saturday 9-Nov-1889 at Sunderland Skating The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze and consumers were buying bicycles in large numbers. In 1897 alone, more than two million bicycles were sold in the United States, about one for every 30 inhabitants.
1891, a journalist at the American paper Sunday Herald wrote the following: “I think the most vicious thing I ever saw in all my life is a woman on a bicycle–and Washington is full of them. I had thought that cigarette smoking was the worst thing a woman could do, but I have changed my mind.” |
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