Lands End to John o'Groats Unicycle Record

The first day has been a success! We started off from the Land’s End hotel start line at 0905 and made steady progress through Cornwall’s rolling hills.

Once we were onto the main A30 trunk road it was largely dual carriageway – which despite being quite loud was good for cycling as it is wide for cars to pass with plenty of space, a small shoulder to ride on our of the main flow of traffic, and no sharp corners or steep hills.

We stopped and met Paul with the van about every 25km, and had food and water for 10 minutes. We also had a couple of pasta stops with two longer breaks. We were getting to grips with the Schlumpf riding style, learning to shift down early for hills rather than grind up in high gear at the same speed that low gear could go.

We finally turned off the A30 which we had been on all day and had a couple of quiet country miles in to Oakhampton town, finishing 7.25pm – 10 hours and 20 minutes to complete 97.4 miles, with a riding average of 12.5pmh. That was a little lower than it felt, as it included many long drags up a total of around 2000m of hills! Our full GPS data of distance, speed and elevation is uploaded, and is fun to play with.