Lael Wilcox: What does cycling around the world entail?
Lael Wilcox smashes women’s Around the World cycling record – But what does ‘circumnavigating the globe by bike’ actually entail?
Pending approval by Guinness World Records, Wilcox’s around the world ride, documented by her photographer and videographer wife Rue Kaladyte, will sit atop the litany of fastest times she’s already achieved at the world’s most important endurance events, such as the Tour Divide, Trans Am, Baja Divide, and Badlands.
> Rapha athlete Lael Wilcox encounters mountain lion and wildfires during testing start to Tour Divide record attempt “It’s a remarkable feat of human endurance which I greatly respect,” one Reddit user commented on a thread about Wilcox’s ride. “I have to ride 18,000 miles, 29,000km, and there are only five rules to go after for the Guinness world record. The first is starting and ending in the same point. Second, you ride either east or west. Third, you take commercial transportation between continents, so that means either flights or boats.
Meanwhile, the logistical challenges associated with planning an around the world record attempt are most clearly evident in the route currently being plotted by Vedangi Kulkarni, who is at the time of writing 66 days into her own attempt to ensure Wilcox’s record is a short-lived one.A post shared by Vedangi Kulkarni
Like Wilcox, her antipodes are Wellington and Madrid, but unlike the Alaskan, Vedangi’s route will include South America, namely Peru, before a northeastern-facing European leg that will take her from Portugal to Sweden’s Arctic Circle. From there, it’s down to Oman and a final leg to the southern tip of India, completing a route that the adventure cyclist says will cover a lot more than 18,000 miles.
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