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American who cycled the world eager 'to get back on my bike' [1]
['Chris Tejirian']
Date: 2024-09-17 19:02:00+00:00
Lael Wilcox has cycled across the United States and pedaled off-road from Canada to Mexico. After becoming the fastest woman to complete both those circuits, she decided to take on the world.
On September 11, Wilcox, 38, of Arizona, announced she had completed a round-the-world cycling circuit in 108 days, 12 hours and 12 minutes, making her the fastest woman ever to cycle around the world. “I had so much fun — felt like I could’ve just kept riding forever,” said Wilcox, who first took up cycling to commute to work and began ultradistance racing in 2015. “It was the ride of my life.”
Wilcox started and finished in Chicago and cycled 29,000 kilometers (18,000 miles), a distance less than the 40,000-kilometer (24,850-mile) circumference of the earth to account for not cycling over oceans. The cycling distance is one of Guinness World Records’ requirements for an official round-the-world cycling trip, Wilcox said in an interview with National Public Radio. Others include passing through two points on exactly opposite sides of the globe and traveling commercial across oceans.
Along the way, Wilcox climbed 192,000 meters (630,000 feet) and cycled in countries including Canada, Croatia, Georgia, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain. Wilcox, who doesn’t drive, enlisted her wife to follow along behind her in a car and planned adequate time for sleep along the way.
“It’s the best I’ve ever felt at the end of a long ride,” Wilcox said on Instagram. “I can’t believe I’m writing this, but I already want to get back on my bike.”
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