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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This is a true story about a cycling challenge that was set up over one hundred years ago and of a rider who attempted it in 1939 and set the standard so high that his record remains unsurpassed after over seventy years. He has become the “Greatest Long Distance Cyclist in the World’. The challenge was simple to describe: it was to see who could ride a bicycle the greatest distance in a calendar year under the guidelines and monitoring of a cycling journal. This story follows the inception of this challenge and all who attempted it and how it eventually turned into a test of human strength stamina and endurance which matches or exceeds most feats of endurance claimed by many sports people over this period of time. The publication includes the sporting life story of the man who put the record so far out of reach that no one has beaten it and maybe no one ever will. What do we mean by endurance? Let’s be specific and call it human endurance where it is one person battling against the terrain the elements time distance or whatever. Examples of these are: running an ultra or consecutive marathons swimming across channels or seas climbing an unclimbed mountain trekking to the North or South Pole rowing around the world and cycling across continents. When someone has achieved a recognised feat of endurance and it is witnessed and scrutinised fully it usually gets great publicity sometimes a book TV programme or a film. Also it immediately sets a thought process in someone’s mind to better that feat and in the next few years we usually hear of it being equalled or surpassed.