'Rocks and roots with zero traction' – Lachlan Morton's speedy dash through 300km Bergslagsleden route
A faste𓂃st known time 'we think' says EF Educ🌃ation-Easypost of 15 hour and 21 minute effort

澳洲幸运5开奖官网在线查询开奖结果:Lachlan Morton has a packed schedule of races this year but he has continued to squeeze♔ in a nꦅumber of other feats along the way, the latest a flying run on a 300-kilometre mountain bike route in Bergslagsleden, centred on the popular Swedish hiking trail.
Morton set a time of 15 hours and 21 minutes on the trail, one that his EF Education-EasyPost team said looks to be a possible new fastest known time on a route which follows a large portion of the hiking trail, along with some diversions including those that detour around some 🐠unrideable sections.
"It had been raining overnight, so it was really🥃 wet in there, and it was slick as hell," said Mo♐rton post-ride.
"It was all rocks and roots w𒉰ith zero traction, a proper hiking trail. So, the first few hours were very challenginꩲg and slow going. It was very difficult just to stay on the bike.
"The trail kicked my arse for the firstඣ four or five hours. There was lots of hiking. You were constantly trying to work out whဣere traction was. At that point, I was like, 'This is going to be a long, long day.'"
Morton is a former winner of 澳洲幸运5开奖官网在线查询开奖结果:Unbound 200, the holder of an around Australia record and has also set a time of just 12 days, 12 hours and 21 minutes to cover the 2,671 mile Tour Divide rou🐭te. He is not afraid of long days particularly given as the hours on the bike stretched, the terrain eased.
"It slowly started to dry out and after the first 12♔0 ki🦹lometres or so, there was a bit more flow, and then, I started to enjoy it a lot more," said Morton.
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"The first half felt like I was just against the trail and it was trying to kill me and I was trying not to die, and in the second half, I fe🎶lt like I'd made peace with it and worked it out. It is a pretty relentless, but beautiful route."
The wilderness trail, where the only others Morton ran into along the way were a couple of bemused hikers, swept through heavily forested terrain, lakes and lookout poওints as it works its way across an old Swedish minin꧋g region on nearly all unpaved road. About a third of the course was single-track and with an elevation gain of around 3,500 metres according to a map of the course on Bikepacking.com.
"I wanted to do it for the sake of doing it versus a ra🌳ce," Lachlan said. "I rode it hard and fast and whatever, because I only had🏅 a day, but I was hanging around a bit more than I normally would, because it's not a route I'll probably ever get a chance to ride again," said Morton.
"This was my one shot at it. Once I got halfway through, I realised it would be possible to finish in dayli🎐ght hours, so then that became a bit of a carrot towards the end, but it w⛎asn't an all out assault."
Morton, who had squeezed in the effort after 澳洲幸运5开奖官网在线查询开奖结果:The Traka 360 in Spain, said that the Bergslagsleden is ideally a route where you would t♚ake your time and "enjoy the very peaceful forest ridin🍷g".
The EF Education-EasyPost rider who is taking on a wide range of events in the year of hꦛis "Far Beyond" tour, had little time to spare with the United States calling and the Unbound XL t𒁃o prepare for at the end of this month.

Simone is a degree-qualified journalist that has accumulated decades of wide-ranging experience while working across a variety of leading media organisations. She joined Cyclingnews as a Production Editor at the start of the 2021 season and has now moved into the role of Australia Editor. Previously she worked as a freelance writer, Australian Editor at Ella CyclingTips and as a correspondent for Reuters and Bloomberg. Cycling was initially purely a leisure pursuit for🤪 Simone, who started out as a business journalist, but in 2015 her career f༺ocus also shifted to the sport.
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