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If you are wondering how much distance man can travel in 24 hours under his own power, Greg Kolodziejzyk can tell you that. He travelled 647 Miles in one day under his own power and sets the Guinness World Record.

Greg Kolodziejzyk is a retired entrepreneur on a mission to break the existing 24 hour human powered distance record of 1021.36 km set in 1995. That's almost the distance from a snow shovel in Calgary to a palm tree in California. He has exactly 24 hours to do it and it will be strictly under his own power. No wind or stored energy of any sort allowed. Greg designed and built a custom carbon fiber bicycle called "Critical Power". More appropriately called a "Human powered vehicle", Critical Power is a two wheeled recumbent bicycle encapsulated by a bullet-like streamlined body called a fairing. The sleek body was computer designed for maximum aerodynamic efficiency by Ben Eadie of Mountain-wave.ca. CP is capable of achieving speeds in excess of 100 km per hour and was built to maintain a cruising speed of 50 kph on a flat road with effort levels that would see a paltry 20 kph on a typical mountain bike.

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