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Mark Cavendish and Luke Rowe did a virtual Everest on Zwift

Two pros climbed 8,848m in a single ride

Mark Cavendish and Luke Rowe have climbed 8,848m in a single Zwift ride to complete a virtual Everest. Cavendish proclaimed the experience “grim”.

We’ve reported on Mark Cavendish’s turbo training a couple of times this week on our live blog.

He’s been spending long enough on there that he felt it necessary to build a DIY indoor trainer for his son, Casper, who’s not yet two, but is reportedly ‘obsessed’ with cycling.

Yesterday Cav revealed that he and former team-mate Luke Rowe of Team Ineos had done a virtual Everest in a 10-hour 211km ride.

Last month cycling YouTuber Francis Cade climbed twice the height of Everest on Zwift to raise money for the NHS.

He embarked on the challenge with Alex Hill, who has previously done a real-world ‘Double Everest’ in Shropshire.

Unfortunately, Hill got to 10,000m before his leg was so swollen he couldn’t carry on.

Nevertheless, the two of them raised over £17,000 through their efforts.

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CXR94Di2 | 4 years ago
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With my climbing speed it would be 15 hours minimum.

Some things are left to others

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DaxPlusPlus | 4 years ago
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Have you heard about https://www.gofundme.com/f/le-tour-de-fran - it happened last weekend .. one woman cycled on her turbo for 36 hours! One guy did an vEverest. Total mileage cycled was the same as 9 (or was it 10) Tour de Frances. Total mileage walked, cycled, ran was approx 25,000 miles. See the update in the link for more stats (I think even those stats are slightly low).

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Judge dreadful replied to DaxPlusPlus | 4 years ago
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DaxPlusPlus wrote:

Have you heard about https://www.gofundme.com/f/le-tour-de-fran - it happened last weekend .. one woman cycled on her turbo for 36 hours! One guy did an vEverest. Total mileage cycled was the same as 9 (or was it 10) Tour de Frances. Total mileage walked, cycled, ran was approx 25,000 miles. See the update in the link for more stats (I think even those stats are slightly low).

It's amazing what you can achieve with a turbo rigged up to a washing machine drum.

 

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