Just finished a great press conference at City Hall, and Arvid posed with the grandson and Councillor Lukes (St. Norbert). Getting ready to head off!!   

Next week on Thursday (the 18th), starting with a press conference at 11:30am and rolling out from City Hall at Noon, Arvid will navigate Winnipeg’s city streets in Winnipeg’s Longest Bicycle Commute. He will stay inside the city and spend…

Arvid’s 2015 ride will take him from Deadhorse, Alaska, to Key West, Florida – the most northern and southern points in Canada and the US (connected by a road). It begins July 7, 2015. Bookmark the page you’re on and…

Calculated rest. Sleep deprivation had taken its toll on Arvid. At the rate he was going, he would continue to lose daily distance and potentially fall significantly behind the record. He took the night off, sleeping and resting in hopes…

Day 12 KM: 434 Total KM: 5336 Average KM: 444 Buffer: 32 KM

Like any street, Henderson suffers from the weather, traffic, and conditions. After the rain and storms of the previous days gravel and rocks dotted the side. Bill, a former co-worker of Arvid’s, had been out to bike Henderson and cheer…

“It wouldn’t be a record if it was easy.” I think that defines the last 11 days. In that time, Arvid has done 180 laps of Henderson. He has completed the entire distance of RAAM 2014 (4859km), and he is almost…

Call it HQ. Home Base. 5839. The Loft. The Place of No Sleep. No matter what you call it, it’s amazing to have a central location for Arvid to sleep, shower, eat, and for the crew to take care of…

Arvid had a better day yesterday with a few short naps. He and the crew have both remarked (multiple times) that if it was easy it wouldn’t be a record. There’s no doubt that the record is extremely tight. There…

Arvid slept 3 hours at night, plus a 1+ hour nap yesterday. After breakfast today he took a second nap. He’s been riding hard and the weather is cold. Day 9 KM: 411 Total KM: 4026 Average KM: 447 Buffer:…

Arvid threw out the challenge, and someone responded! I had been out to visit Arvid and do a few tweaks on the phone/iPod setup, and was driving back. I had my window open and was chatting with a rather cheery…

Normal people don’t do crazy things for no reason. And though Arvid has been known to push himself to extreme lengths to test the limits of human endurance, he is still an ordinary normal individual, albeit a normal individual with…

Because we don’t all love numbers. Because some of us love graphs. Here’s the journey as represented in a two-part graph. First, the blue line is Arvid’s total distance. The green line is the record’s total distance, averaged out over…

Arvid took 3 hours sleep last night, and the weather wasn’t great. Keep praying for less wind, more warmth, and less rain. Day 8 KM: 411 Total KM: 3614 Average KM: 451 Buffer: 78 KM

Day 7 saw better weather and better lap times (he even brought a few just under an hour). On day 4-6 he was often completing laps in 1:07-1:12, whereas he’s been around 0:58-1:03 for a lot of the day. He…