“That’s amazing. I wasn’t expecting that,” says Josh Quigley when we call him to tell him his seven-day distance record has been voted Cycling Weekly’s Outstanding Achievement of 2021. “It seems like such a long time ago now,” he tells us, speaking on the phone from Spain where he was spending three weeks enjoying some warmweather training.
“I never thought I’d say this, but in a lot of ways I miss it,” he says of the week he spent hammering up and down the A93 between Peterculter and Ballater in Aberdeenshire, eventually amassing 2,179 miles in the seven days and setting an offiial Guinness World Record. “It was such an intense week, but looking back, it was just amazing,” he says. “I would love to do it again.”
Considering he took up cycling as a way to try to break himself out of depression, Quigley has come a remarkably long way.
This story is from the December 09, 2021 edition of CYCLING WEEKLY.
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