{"id":5190,"date":"2016-01-09T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/01\/09\/1-year-more-than-75000-miles-cyclist-breaks-76-year-old-record\/"},"modified":"2016-01-09T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T15:59:00","slug":"1-year-more-than-75000-miles-cyclist-breaks-76-year-old-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/1-year-more-than-75000-miles-cyclist-breaks-76-year-old-record\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Year, More Than 75,000 Miles: Cyclist Breaks 76-Year-Old Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Camila Domonoske<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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Seventy-five thousand miles is long enough to cross the United States about 25 times. Long enough to circle the equator \u2014 three times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And for 75 years, 75,000 miles was long enough to be legendary. Or more specifically, it was 75,065 miles \u2014 the miles-biked-in-a-year record set by Tommy Godwin in 1939 and never broken since.<\/p>\n

But on Monday, a man named Kurt Searvogel pedaled past that mark. On Saturday \u2014 the last day of his year of extraordinary biking \u2014 he’s pushing towards 76,066, a full thousand miles further than Godwin’s legendary feat.<\/p>\n

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Kurt Searvogel’s rode 230.73 miles on his first day attempt at the HAM’R. pic.twitter.com\/i2JSuFZDH4<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Alicia Searvogel (@aliciaadventure) January 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“He him-haws that 76,000 is good enough,” Alicia Searvogel, Kurt’s wife and and one-woman support team posted on Facebook Saturday morning<\/a>. “No! He’s done but he’s not done. … 223 MILES TODAY!!!!”<\/p>\n

It’s just 223 miles in a day, after all … only 15 miles more than the average daily pace that 53-year-old Searvogel, a.k.a. Tarzan, has maintained since Jan 10, 2015.<\/p>\n

How exactly do you go about biking 75,000 miles in a year? “Only A Game,”<\/a> at member station WBUR, spoke to Searvogel and shared a day in the life of a man tackling the HAM’R \u2014 the Highest Annual Mileage Record:<\/p>\n

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” ‘Normally I’ll wake up around 5:00 and get some breakfast,’ Searvogel said, ‘and be on the bike around 6:00, pretty much ride until about 8:00 or 9:00 at night. Keep it to a 14-15 hour day and then \u2014 and then get enough sleep to keep going for the next day.’<\/p>\n

“This has been Searvogel’s schedule for 365 days in a row. Wake up. Ride 200 miles. Upload the data from his GPS. Eat and sleep.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Searvogel’s planned itinerary called for a “rest and recovery” day<\/a> every seventh day: a mere 176 miles. But his records show he usually blew past 200 even on those “rest” days.<\/p>\n

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2 days to break the record! pic.twitter.com\/UAu6lsTImr<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Alicia Searvogel (@aliciaadventure) January 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It was an eventful year. Searvogel got in two collisions with cars, was diagnosed with asthma, had a heart scare, traveled through eight states and went through multiple bikes, the Tampa Bay Times reports<\/a>. And in October, he and Alicia, his crew chief from the start of the journey, were married<\/a>. He still clocked 175 miles that day.<\/p>\n

Searvogel’s not the only one avidly pursuing the HAM’R. The record first set by Godwin \u2014 a vegetarian Brit who battled foul weather and World War II food rationing, in a feat well worth reading about over at WBUR<\/a> \u2014 is also being chased by Steve Abraham<\/a>. Abraham was hit by a moped and broke his ankle \u2014 but kept riding. He restarted the year counter in August and is continuing his effort<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But for now the HAM’R is Searvogel’s, and the only question is how high he’ll push the record mark.<\/p>\n

The final stretch is a ride from Jupiter, Fla., to St. Augustine, Alicia Searvogel said on Facebook. You can watch Kurt Searvogel’s progress through his GPS tracker.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Source:: http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/01\/09\/462402664\/1-year-more-than-75-000-miles-cyclist-breaks-76-year-old-record?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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YouTube<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Seventy-five thousand miles is long enough to cross the United States about 25 times. Long enough to circle the equator \u2014 three times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And for 75 years, 75,000 miles was long enough to be legendary. Or more specifically, it was 75,065 miles \u2014 the miles-biked-in-a-year record set by Tommy Godwin in 1939 and never broken since.<\/p>\n

But on Monday, a man named Kurt Searvogel pedaled past that mark. On Saturday \u2014 the last day of his year of extraordinary biking \u2014 he’s pushing towards 76,066, a full thousand miles further than Godwin’s legendary feat.<\/p>\n

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Kurt Searvogel’s rode 230.73 miles on his first day attempt at the HAM’R. pic.twitter.com\/i2JSuFZDH4<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Alicia Searvogel (@aliciaadventure) January 11, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“He him-haws that 76,000 is good enough,” Alicia Searvogel, Kurt’s wife and and one-woman support team posted on Facebook Saturday morning<\/a>. “No! He’s done but he’s not done. … 223 MILES TODAY!!!!”<\/p>\n

It’s just 223 miles in a day, after all … only 15 miles more than the average daily pace that 53-year-old Searvogel, a.k.a. Tarzan, has maintained since Jan 10, 2015.<\/p>\n

How exactly do you go about biking 75,000 miles in a year? “Only A Game,”<\/a> at member station WBUR, spoke to Searvogel and shared a day in the life of a man tackling the HAM’R \u2014 the Highest Annual Mileage Record:<\/p>\n

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” ‘Normally I’ll wake up around 5:00 and get some breakfast,’ Searvogel said, ‘and be on the bike around 6:00, pretty much ride until about 8:00 or 9:00 at night. Keep it to a 14-15 hour day and then \u2014 and then get enough sleep to keep going for the next day.’<\/p>\n

“This has been Searvogel’s schedule for 365 days in a row. Wake up. Ride 200 miles. Upload the data from his GPS. Eat and sleep.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Searvogel’s planned itinerary called for a “rest and recovery” day<\/a> every seventh day: a mere 176 miles. But his records show he usually blew past 200 even on those “rest” days.<\/p>\n

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2 days to break the record! pic.twitter.com\/UAu6lsTImr<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Alicia Searvogel (@aliciaadventure) January 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It was an eventful year. Searvogel got in two collisions with cars, was diagnosed with asthma, had a heart scare, traveled through eight states and went through multiple bikes, the Tampa Bay Times reports<\/a>. And in October, he and Alicia, his crew chief from the start of the journey, were married<\/a>. He still clocked 175 miles that day.<\/p>\n

Searvogel’s not the only one avidly pursuing the HAM’R. The record first set by Godwin \u2014 a vegetarian Brit who battled foul weather and World War II food rationing, in a feat well worth reading about over at WBUR<\/a> \u2014 is also being chased by Steve Abraham<\/a>. Abraham was hit by a moped and broke his ankle \u2014 but kept riding. He restarted the year counter in August and is continuing his effort<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But for now the HAM’R is Searvogel’s, and the only question is how high he’ll push the record mark.<\/p>\n

The final stretch is a ride from Jupiter, Fla., to St. Augustine, Alicia Searvogel said on Facebook. You can watch Kurt Searvogel’s progress through his GPS tracker.<\/a><\/p>\n

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