Lael Wilcox will try to interrupt the outright report for the experience all over the world in June 2026, she confirmed in an interview with Cyclingnews at Rouleur Dwell on Thursday.
The skilled ultra-endurance bicycle owner, who already holds the ladies’s world report to circle the globe, stated she’s going to intention to beat the present males’s report of 78 days, 14 hours, and 40 minutes set by Mark Beaumont in 2017.
“Sure, precisely. I am planning to start out subsequent June,” Wilcox advised Cyclingnews.
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Wilcox holds the ladies’s information for the Tour Divide and Trans Am. She accomplished a record-breaking experience all over the world in 2024, setting a Guinness World File (GWR) for the quickest circumnavigation by a girl in 108 days, 12 hours, and 12 minutes. Jenny Graham beforehand held the report since 2018.
When Wilcox broke the ladies’s experience all over the world report final 12 months, she began in Chicago and rode 18,125 miles, crossing via to New York Metropolis earlier than flying to Portugal and using east via Spain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Georgia.
She then flew to Australia, travelling from Perth to Brisbane earlier than heading to New Zealand. Again in North America, she rode from Alaska via western Canada and down the west coast of the US, earlier than turning east again to Chicago.
“I set the ladies’s all over the world report final 12 months, however throughout that experience, I used to be self-supported and I picked a very mountainous route. I went via all the key cities and was carrying tenting tools and kit. I completed in 108 days,” Wilcox advised Cyclingnews.
“We made a movie about it and confirmed it 13 instances this spring, and I watched it. I cherished the experience, however after I was watching this film, I used to be pondering, ‘I finished on a regular basis.’ I invited anybody on the planet to return experience me, after which I am internet hosting riders.
“Mainly, ultimately, it was the good factor; I obtained to go after this Guinness World File, and it felt like a goodwill tour of the world.
“I used to be left pondering, ‘nicely, what athletically may I really do?'”
This time round, Wilcox is aiming for effectivity and planning a completely supported journey in her try to interrupt the outright experience all over the world report subsequent summer time.
“As a girl, is it attainable to beat the boys’s report, which is 78 days? It’s a must to common – ultimately – 230 miles a day. I can think about doing it as a result of I’ve raced throughout the US in a median of 235 miles [a day] for 18 days,” she stated.
“So, I used to be like, bodily I can do that, with the strategy of effectivity; having a full help workforce, flatter route and making an attempt to maintain momentum.”
