Congratulations to Larry Oslund who broke 4 existing Trike Guinness records and set 4 new 60-69 age group records in the Male, Trike category.
| Distance Event Kilometers | Time | Avg Sp (Km) | Avg Sp (Miles) | |
| 100 Km Road | 02:37:07.22 | 38.19 | 23.73 | |
| 200 Km Road | 05:36:31.46 | 35.66 | 22.16 | |
| Distance Event Miles | Time | 38.08 | 23.66 | |
| 100 Mile Road | 04:24:05.13 | 22.72 | 36.56 | |
| Timed Event | Miles | Kilometers | Avg Sp (Miles) | Avg Sp (Km) |
| 6 Hour Road | 132.196 | 212.749 | 22.03 | 35.46 |
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Ride Report: 6-hr Ride Report – Larry Oslund Feb 14, 2025
3 days before the 2025 Sebring event I carried out a 6-hour record attempt on my Magic Trike, which is a Proto-typo Cruzbike FWR-MMB format. This would be the first Trike record I have attempted, as all my other records have been on 2 wheel Cruzbike recumbent. I would be attempting it on the Surveyed CW loop of the Duane Palmer Blvd. The same road the Sebring event would use on Sat except they will ride in the CCW direction.
Fortunately, I convinced 3 brave riders to help me. Gary Multcher, and Doug Haluza were my Crew and drivers (they had come for the event), and Andrew Clayton was my official. He lives in the area and was also riding in the Sebring Event. Thanks again to these hardy souls!
This attempt would be an officiated WUCA record attempt, and I was attempting to break existing WUCA and Guinness non-age group records. I was also going to attempt it as an unsupported record so this means no hand-offs or help of any other kind to me during the entire 6-hours. All the Crew and officials needed to do was follow me and make sure I followed the rules, record my lap times, and to insure I received no assistance from anyone. Here are the current records held by Mike Ricci.
| Distance Event | Time | Avg Sp (Km) | Avg Sp (Miles) | |
| 100 Km Road | 02:40:20.04 | 37.42 | 23.25 | |
| 200 Km Road | 06:00:22.23 | 33.30 | 20.69 | |
| 100 Mile Road | 04:28:52.57 | 22.32 | 35.91 | |
| Timed Event | Miles | Kilometers | Avg Sp (Miles) | Avg Sp (Km) |
| 6 Hour Road | 124.179 | 199.847 | 20.70 | 33.31 |
By far the first 100Km would be the hardest to beat as 23.25mph was a pretty fast speed for a Trike. To do that on my Trike would be equivalent to riding close to 25mph on my 2-wheel recumbent.
After prepping my Trike the day before and making some test laps to confirm the power I needed to achieve the speed to break the record I returned to my dear friends, Jerry and Gail Melendy, who host me every year for Sebring. I continued to make the rest of the preparations: Fuel, backup components if needed, batteries charged, etc.
I got up at 5am, made necessary preparations, then drove in the fog to the Duane Palmer course and arrived around 6am. I prepared all my equipment. Today I was also going to be recording full video to prove unsupported. I will also be collecting GPS track, Power, cadence, HR, and Temp data which is now required for all WUCA time and distance record attempts that are also possible Guinness records. My 360 degree video requires a lot of power, so I also needed to carry a 20,000ma USB battery with me to keep it going – add another 2 lbs!
After a lap around the 3.67 mile loop to warm up – I went back and met my crew and officials at Echo Park where I started. We confirmed what everyone’s responsibility was and then I officially started at about 6:59am. It was just light enough to see well, which was really nice, but I did run front and rear lights for safety.
Here is me at the start:
I took off like a scalded cat and was pushing major power as I had to both climb the slow grade of the road in this direction and fight against the approx 10 mph head wind. I was hoping it was not going to be windy, but the wind pretty much persisted the entire attempt but was strongest around 10 am. So it was pushing my 30 min FTP power for about 3 min against the wind and then taking it easy on the other side going slightly downhill and wind at my back. This was nice, but you always lose with wind in the end.
Everything was going according to plan, I was clocking pretty fast (9:03 to 9:05) laps which was about 24.1mph (even with the wind) and quite a bit faster than I needed to break the record. Then just about 8 am the construction crew for the golf course decided to start driving equipment and pipe across the road. I evaded them most of the time, but on lap #9 I had to slow down to nearly a stop and just manage to sneak behind the large equipment as it was backing up and managed to keep going. That cost me about 15 secs for that lap.
Then on lap #10 they were unloading a semi full of pipe and were starting to back across the entire road again. I slowed down again and yelled out to them to please stop and let me pass. Amazingly they did and I went on, but again at a lap time of 9:15. Then it was like I lost my mojo. I could not get back to the 9:04 laps I was doing but was now doing them in the 9:15 range which was still ok at 23.7 mph. I had now ridden about 36 miles and my average speed was 24.0 mph, so I felt pretty good, but was also more fatigued than I wanted to be at this point as I still have 4 ½ hours to ride and the wind was relentless. The good thing was that I only needed to ride about 26 miles and only had to average a little more than 22 mph to break the record at 23.25 mph. So I stopped trying to ride at the fast speed and backed off a little, still managing to average above 23.3mph for the rest of the 7 laps I needed to hit the 100km record mark. Once I did that, it was nearly 10am and also heating up quite a bit. It hit 90 at noon which was really unexpected for Mid-Feb – but I pushed on and just kept backing off the power so I did not overheat. The remaining records were not nearly as fast, so they were much easier to hit. In the end I managed to ride just a little over 132 miles with an average speed of 22.1 mph. That was good for 8 miles over the current record. I did not stop even once as I carried 4 liters of fuel with me.
Thanks again to Andrew Clayon, Gary Multcher, and Doug Haluza who took valuable time out of their day to help staff my record attempt.
Pic of me at the end:
Here is 8x speed from the onboard video: https://youtu.be/OMS7uBYFSPo