Ultra-rider Leigh Timmis has broken cycling’s seven-day distance record, facing down a three-day hurricane to complete a mammoth 2,230 miles in seven days. It saw Timmis ride 19 miles further than previous holder, Latvian Arvis Sprude, who rode 2,211 miles in a week in his home country this summer.
Derby-based Brit Timmis travelled to Florida for his attempt, hoping to benefit from its flat roads and reliable weather. Instead, his attempt was hit by a freak storm.
“Only three hurricanes have made landfall in November in Florida since 1851, since records began, so there was no chance of it,” Timmis said. “You would never have thought it.”
A carefully crafted plan that had been a year in the making and was designed, Timmis said, not just to break
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