A group of Scots students took on a “stiff” charity challenge as they cycled 400 miles from Cock Lane to Dick Place.
The eight Edinburgh University lads wanted to do something hard for Movember - so they decided to cycle from Cock Lane near Smithfield Market in London to Dick Place in Edinburgh - a journey of 388 miles. On Sunday afternoon, the peloton reached their destination - after 36 hours straight of cycling.
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Alex, studying Biomedical Sciences, said: "The whole route idea came from a meme of an ultimate road trip across the UK through all sexual innuendo named places.
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Mungo, studying Computer Science, said: "London to Edinburgh is a famous ultra-cycling challenge, it’s quite a famous route that people like to take on, so it’s a bit of a twist on that.
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Some of the group have taken part in previous Movember challenges, including riding 525km around the famously steep Arthur’s Seat hill in 2021 and completing a 500km ride around the Scottish Borders in 2022. But this year’s challenge has been the toughest so far - seeing the team cycle a total of 625km and hoping to raise five times more than last year’s fundraising total of £3k.
Excuse me but how in the fuck?
People do a lot of endurance events these days.
What’s crazy is they did a 24 hour ride last year and just casually increased it to 36 this year. Just a cool 50% increase like it’s nothing.
Absolutely insane, I’m in pretty good shape and love cycling myself, but I can’t even imagine the level of cardiovascular (let alone mental) endurance needed for something like that.