Ingolf Ultra Distance Cycling

World Record - Highest Weekly Mileage (HWMR) Ride Report Ingolf Micklisc…

World Record - Highest Weekly Mileage (HWMR) Ride Report Ingolf Micklisch

The race Season for ultra distance racing 2024 was officially over for me and checking some of the existing records I was hooked to try at least one attempt for another record. Coming across the highest Weekly Milage Records I noticed it might be doable to break the record for my age group 60-69. However, since I had the idea in October and did not train for the record attempt nor did I get a chance to setup a support crew. So, the wild idea came up using Thanksgiving holiday week for an attempt. Local riding friends as well as non-riding friends mentioned that would be cool and that they would monitor my progress and be available in case something happened. My goal was not detailed, and I had no specific plan. Mentioning it to my coach I mentioned I would like to use this attempt to test myself potentially to learn for such 7-day attempt and maybe doing it again in 2025 with crew support and proper training for it. Picked two main loops 4 and 5 miles mainly riding clockwise and the combination of both about 8 miles. That way I would be able to stay close to home as base for refilling water, changing lights and other batteries as well as getting nutrition and sleep. In addition, it helped for friends to keep an eye on me when on the road and be available in case something unexpected happened.

Day 1 I started about 5 minutes after 11am local time. Picked the 4-mile loop first and kept going a bit harder than I should but I felt good. During daytime I stayed on the 4-mile loop and planned to have a stop at my house latest every 6 hours. Not having a crew, I was hoping I get along ok with 6 hours on the bike. First stop showed me that I am desperately missing crew support. Even I had food prepared it took a while to get it ready, eat, refill the 3 bottles and getting back on the road. After the first 6 hours I went back out for a few more laps on the 4-mile loop and once getting dark switched to the 5-mile loop which was busier during daylight. I stretched the second session a bit more to get close to 7 hours since I wanted to save my rides every day around midnight. It worked out very well and did good progress on first 13 hours. Actually, more than I thought I could do in such 7 day attempt.

Day 2 After refilling bottles and swapping all lights and batteries I went back out to the 5-miler loop. Used mostly position on aerobars. Traffic at night was very low so it was easy riding. Kept pushing harder than initially planned. As planned, I set stops at home for food, bottle replacements and fresh lights and batteries every 6 hours. That kind of worked out ok but noticed the stop time was longer than I expected. Tried to compensate it with speed. Every stop I left with fresh bottles of to drink as well as at least two jelly sandwiches that I could use to eat while riding. Overall distance was interesting to me. The cool thing was that (counting the first 24 hours) I could have easy made it into RAAM Solo qualification. No need for it since I finished RAAM Solo but was a good feeling and surprise to me. So, I kept the pace up and kept my 6-hour schedule. For bathroom stops I start using a city park that was next to the two loops. During daytime I stayed mostly on the 4-mile loop and nighttime on the 5-mile loop. That worked out very well.

WUCA World Record in the HWMR category for 7-day Time Trial attempt. Fi…

WUCA World Record in the HWMR category for 7-day Time Trial attempt. Finally my 2024 season is over. I did accept it as being completed and start looking at preparation for some resting and 2025 season. However since I had no family get together for Thanksgiving I somehow came up with the idea to use Thanksgiving week for a 7 day time trial attempt to see how many miles are doable. Funny as is - I was not prepared since I started to focus on some slower times over end of the year and I could not pull a crew together for this. Sio that lead me to the decision to go for the 7 day time trial attempt without any crew help and no special preparation. Why would I do this? Simple answer ... its was a test to see what I need to watch out for and work on for 2025 when doing it possibly with a crew. will provide a bit of a riders report by day and more details. However I learned a lot from the attempt this year. Besides getting a decent distance of 1858.09 miles (2990.31 km) I admit a lot came up showing what I better watch out for. First of all doing it without support crew was a challenging lesson learned and did lead to some issues. Second of all a proper training preparing for it would be more helpful as well. Every stop took much longer than I expected. Not having a crew I admit my time trial attempt was over a bit sooner than I wanted ... lack of focus and slowed reaction times caused an accident that ended it before I was able to go for the 2000 mile marker. Nevertheless it was an interesting experience. and I will take all the specific infos from my attempt and use them for a 2025 time trial attempt where I hope getting much better milage. Big thanks for all year support from Heidi Maldonado and from my coach Giovanni Prosperi .... A result like this would not have been possible without their great support all year.

Horrible Hundred Ride 2024 -> Had fun at Horrible Hundred Ride last Sund…

Horrible Hundred Ride 2024 -> Had fun at Horrible Hundred Ride last Sunday. It's always a cool ride and I enjoyed it a lot. Nice to see that I improved a bit over the last years and still felt great at end of the ride. Next focus is on a cool attempt to check my limits a bit at end of a ride season. #infinitybikeseat discount code #Ingolf676 #hammernutrition

My First Randonneur rides ... Was planning for Cracker Swamp 1200 but du…

My First Randonneur rides ... Was planning for Cracker Swamp 1200 but due to work requirements only went for Saturday 300k and Sunday 200k brevet rides. It was fun ans seems to be a good addition for the future to my training sessions. Event was very well organized and lots of cool cyclists participating in it. Will do that type of riding again. Distances are easy for me due top using Infinity Bike Seats and good endurance for longer distances. #hammernutrition #infinitybikeseat

Fun Preparing for 48 hour race in early October: Want to share some of m…

Fun Preparing for 48 hour race in early October: Want to share some of my preparation for Psycho48 race. I ended up at the location a bit earlier due to the hurricanes causing issues at home and on road. So I relocated for work and training to a more safe location which was right at the Psycho race area. Kept doing the race route on regular basis with interval as well as recovery rides to get used to the route and memorize it. Its an easy route so not much needed than understanding road condition and wildlife and most important ... had a few rides of 8 and 12 hours to stick with that route to just preparing my mindset for it (riding at night times and day times). It was fun riding and learned a bit about the different wind conditions. The race went perfectly well and preparation paid off.