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Greatest distance cycled using no hands
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Sep 16, 2024
The greatest distance cycled (no hands) is 151.33 km (94.03 miles) and was achieved by Vaibhav T. Rajamani (India) in Porvorim, Goa, India, on 17 December 2023.
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Hello everyone, I'm Vaibhav Rajbani and I hold the record title for the greatest distance
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cycle, no hands. So ever since I was a kid, I really loved cycling and going to different places and
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meeting new people. So one day I browsed through the Guinness World Record website and that's when I came
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across the greatest distance cycle with no hands. So I've been training for the past five years to break this record and I used to go
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to college and also work. The only time that was left for me to train was in the night time
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So I would train most of the times from 8pm and it would last up to 3am or 4am
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During these five years, I started cycling for short distance first. So I used to cycle for 30 kilometres and after my base strength was built, I started doing
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long distance cycling. So I would cycle anywhere from 70 kilometres to 100 kilometres
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And as I was training for this record, another guy ended up breaking the record and set a
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new benchmark. So I had to train even more to break this record
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So once I started the record, there were a lot of things that were going on in my mind. Like how am I going to do this
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How is it going to happen? Will I be able to do this? Will I break the record
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The thing is that there were a lot of people who supported me throughout this journey. There were a lot of family and friends who were involved
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And there was a lot of pressure to even not let them down because they were so involved in this whole event
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And we had also started a crowdfunding campaign to organise this whole event and put it together
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But as I started cycling, after like 10 kilometres, I got into the flow and I stopped thinking
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about all these things. So the hardest mile for me during the attempt was around 140 kilometres, where I started
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feeling a little fatigue in my body and I couldn't really move on further
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My legs started shaking and they started hurting. So I kept pushing through and I increased my speed a little more and I kept my hands
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on my legs and I just kept pressing them like this to support my legs to keep pedalling
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and not stop. The first feeling when I broke the Guinness World Record was I felt relieved
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I felt like a lot of pressure that was on me was like going down
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All the people that believed in me, all the people that supported me throughout this whole
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journey, I had something that I could show to them that I've done it, that I've finally
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broken the record. For 151.33 kilometres in 7 hours, 18 minutes and 13 seconds with no hands
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