A year ago Oakland, California resident Craig Cannon starting riding a road bike. Last Friday he started a 48-hour ride that netted 95,623ft / 29,146m of elevation gain to topple Jacob Zurl's previous record of 94,452 ft / 28,789m. BikeRadar spoke with the 26-year-old Cannon about what it was like to ride the same 12% hill 228 times in a row for a total of 339 miles / 545kms.
BikeRadar: How did you decide on this record?
Craig Cannon: In May I was having beers with a friend. Her friend had just completed the Everesting thing [climbing the height of Mt Everest in one day]. I thought, I can do that. The biggest ride I had done then was 12,000ft. So I went to South Park Drive, in Berkeley and did the Everest. I didn't have any support. I bought a pizza, left it in my car at the bottom with a bunch of water bottles, and just did it. It took me 40-41 laps of the climb, and about 13 hours of ride time, and I felt good after it. I thought, I could totally do more. So I started Googling around, and found some climbing records. I didn't even know that was a thing.
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What did you do to prepare?
I set up two tests before fully committing. First, I wanted to see if I could stay awake for 48 hours. So I did that while doing a few rides, took a 90min nap, then did Mt Diablo with my friends. Second, I rode the exact course on South Park Drive I thought I was use for the record attempt, for 24 hours straight.
South Park Drive averages 12%. That's steep.
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