A man from King’s Lynn has broken the Guinness World Record for most countries cycled in seven days. The Eastern Daily Press reports that Robbie Ferri had been aiming for 14 countries but had to settle for 12 – one more than the previous record.
Last year, Ferri set a new record by cycling in five countries in 24 hours. He’d intended this to be just part of a seven-day record attempt, but had to abort after suffering a knee injury halfway through.
“It was a real shame looking back but I’m glad I had to work for it,” he said. “It made it a more realistic possibility.”
In September, he tried again. He started in Poland, rode through Eastern Europe and finished with a 250-mile day that got him to Germany – his twelfth country – with just 45 minutes to spare.
Ferri said he’d hoped to travel through a couple more countries, but after poor weather in the Balkans, he’d fallen ill.
“I lost 12 hours in the end and I woke up thinking there was going to be a high chance of not making it. Without the problems I could have definitely been able to do the 14. I know my level of fitness.”
He added: “I lost a lot of daylight hours but I really liked riding at night, it was beautiful. Because I was spending a lot of time at dusk and dawn it was stunning everywhere.
“I can’t believe how beautiful eastern Europe was, I can’t wait to go back. Although the weather was terrible the wildlife was beautiful.”
He says he will make a third attempt at the record next year.
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120 miles in 6 hours would be good going.
Italy-Switzerland-Liechtenstein-Austria-Germany is about 100 miles and mostly downhill
Indeed: https://www.strava.com/routes/10894199
Meet you at the end for Kaiserschmarrn.
If I can find a decent train to Aachen I might give that a shot in spring. Already planning the circumnavigation of Luxembourg for the same period so it’ll be a good training ride.
Five countries in 24 hours. I straight away thought of Luxembourg and surrounding, bet I could do it in 6. Seems like eveyone else thinks that too.
Go on then, do it for charity, set up a just giving page and I'll chuck in a tenner.
Knock yourself out if you have the holidays:
https://www.strava.com/routes/10893456
Would love to, however I am less than two weeks post op spinal surgery, so will have to wait until 2019.
Win!
Fridays, eh?
Happy Friday Dave, pub lunch?
ahem. here you go, everyone
Yeah some weirdness going on here, cos there is an actual article that we can see in the back end, it's short, but not that short.
Was going for "ll article" but you definitely win!
king thing.
Deadlines are deadlines, sometimes you just don't get the time to wirte a fu
But not quite as fine as this article.