Originally Posted by
delbiker1
I do not think I want to spend anywhere near that amount of time on a bike. I was at 952 for July and I am good with that number. The really crazy one is the woman in Florida that did 85000 miles in a year, all on the same 7 mile loop. That is about 233 miles a day, not quite 12 hours a day at 20 mph for 33 circuits on the loop. Yikes!
The girl in Florida is Amanda Coker. That's her standing next to me in my avatar. Her goal was not to just ride her bike but to break the woman's world record of the "Highest Annual Miles" set by Billie Fleming (29,603 miles) in 1939. She did that in just four months. With eight months left to ride, she decided to go for the "Overall Highest Annual Miles" set by Kurt Searvogel (76,076 miles) the year before she started the record attempt. She finished the year with 86,573 miles. With less than 14,000 miles less than Tommy Godwin's 500 day, 100,000 record, which stood for 77 years, she decided to go for that as well. She reached 100,000 miles in 423 days. She also holds the world record for "Highest Monthly Miles" at 8,012 miles.