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Confederation Trail, PEI

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    Sec
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    Two questions:

    Does anyone know the current record time to traverse ("tip-to-tip"😉, on a bike, the Confederation
    Trail in PEI, Canada? I heard the record is just over 17 hours.

    To beat the record means an average speed of 16kph for many many hours. The trail is a groomed, hard
    packed dirt surface, that is almost perfectly level for the entire 247km length.

    How hard is it to do an average of 16kph for 17 hours?

    See: Current record holder: outthereliving.comdalton record.jpg

    Nice read about a nice attempt: outthereliving.compei2002.htm

    The Trail itself: islandtrails.caconfed.htm

    Official Trail Webpage: gov.pe.catrail.php3

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  2. Robert Schultz
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    How hard is it to do an average of 16kph for 17 hours?

    Depends on the trail. That's around the average speed on a mid-pack sport racer in a 1.5 hour race
    that includes technical bits.

    But then again, just this last weekend I competed in a 96-98km point-to-point race where my average
    was 16.7kph before the rain killed the cyclometer. The race was the 'Lost in the Rocks and Tress' in
    North Bay Ontario. The fastest rider finished in 4:23 so his average was over 20 kph. Can he keep
    that up over 247km? Probably. He makes me sick.

    I finished in 6:06. I've had my time down to 5:23 but conditions were better.

    Just so you can compare, the trail is abandoned logging road and ATV track. The total amount of
    climbing at ~1800m.

    All that said, I wouldn't want to spend another 1.5 times that amount of time pushing that pace.

    RS

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