I had the pleasure of timekeeping yesterday for Mirjam Lips (Switzerland), who was attempting the womens unicycle hour record at Unicon 18, San Sebastian, Spain.
She broke Nadine Wegner’s previous record of 23.65km with a new distance of 27.027km, with a very strong ride on a 400m athletics track.
Congratulations Mirjam!
Congratulations to Sam Wakeling (UK), we have a new 100 mile world record!
Sam unicycled 100 miles in 6hrs 18min 13s at the Croft Circuit race track, in Darlington, UK. The previous record of 6hrs 44min 22s was set in 1987 by Takayuki Koike (Japan).
Read about Sam’s world record attempt here: http://100.samwakeling.com/ and on the unicyclist.com forums
Sam rode a geared Schlumpf 36″ Unicycle with 145mm cranks.
Roger Davies was making a simultaneous 100 mile record attempt at the same circuit, on an ungeared 36″ unicycle. Unfortunately, after being ahead of the previous record mark, Roger had to abandon his attempt. Hopefully we’ll see another ungeared record attempt from Roger in future!
Please support their charity, Water Aid. They have raised over £500 so far.
Australian actor Samuel Johnson is preparing to unicycle 15,000km around Australia in an attempt to break Lars Clausens Guinness World Record and raise $1m dollars for cancer research. Follow his journey on http://loveyoursister.org/
He leaves on the epic journey on the 15 Feb, and is expected to take up to 12 months to complete.
Good luck Samuel!
