(Screenshot: Arvid Loewen, Cycling Philanthropist/Facebook)
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Winnipeg s cycling grandpa will be finding another way to help Kenyan orphans, but this year it won t be through a big Guinness World Record Attempt. The 10,000 km GWR is no longer in jeopardy. But the 4000 children at MCF still are, says Arvid Loewen in a Facebook post on June 30, 2021.
He was on the third day of 22 days of straight cycling, with the goal of covering 400 km a day to break the Guinness World Record for fastest time cycling 10,000 km. I am disappointed, but 100% certain that I (we) made the right call. I am no longer on the road in pursuit of the 10,000 GWR record.
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Arvid Loewen, Cycling Philanthropist from Winnipeg, Man. (Arvid Loewen/Facebook)
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While most people relax for their 65th birthday, Arvid Loewen is attempting to break another cycling world record. This year I will attempting to break the 10,000 km Guinness World Record for somebody to ride this in the fastest and shortest time possible, says Loewen.
The previous record-holder was set by Guus Moonen from the Netherlands in 2010, when he cycled 10,000 km in 22 days, 15 hours and 34 minutes. This will actually be Loewen s second attempt at this particular GWR as the first time he tried breaking this it was in 2014. Loewen made it halfway before calling it quits.