Tandem pair smash End-to-End benchmark for a brand new record

Women’s tandem pairing Hannah Fawcett and Ede Harrison have romped to a brand new record for the UK’s Land’s End to John o’ Groats ‘End to End’ ride, arriving at their destination this evening in 66hr 49min 52sec.

With no previously established record on the books, pilot Fawcett and stoker Harrison (pictured above, right and left, on a Land’s End to Liverpool recce ride) took aim at an 84-hour ‘standard’ time set by the Road Records Association (RRA), and beat it by more than 23 hours – subject to ratification by the RRA.

The comradely world of road record breaking gathered behind the pair, with women’s LEJOG holder Christina Mackenzie out on the course in Scotland to cheer them on, and men’s holder Michael Broadwith posting updates on the attempt on X, as well as a graph showing their schedule against their actual ride.

They left Land’s End on their fluoro yellow Dolan tandem at 6am on Sunday, with favourable winds behind them. They had factored possible attempts on the 12 and 24-hour records in the application put into the RRA, but the extra-strong tailwind needed for that did not materialise, so the pair were some way short.