THE SHORT ANSWER
Ryan Collins, ultra cyclist holding multiple wuca/guinness world records, including the 6-hour indoor velodrome record (~277 km) and 6-hour outdoor velodrome record (259 km) set in 2024, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Collins lands on ultra-endurance riding. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
WHO IS RYAN COLLINS?
Ryan Collins holds world records for sheer sustained output — riding 46.6km/h for six hours to set a velodrome distance mark. What makes him useful to amateurs isn't the number, it's the three tweaks that made it possible: a position he could hold aerodynamically for six hours, fuelling dialled to the gram, and pacing that never spiked. It's a clean demonstration that ultra-distance performance is an engineering and discipline problem stacked on top of fitness, not a test of how hard you can suffer.
COLLINS ON ULTRA-ENDURANCE
Collins’s key positions on ultra-endurance riding.
- Sustained ultra efforts are paced flat — spikes in power cost far more over hours than they save.
IN COLLINS’S OWN WORDS
Verbatim from Ryan Collins’s appearances on the podcast.
“I had full reconstructive surgery on my upper body I had bones that were not just broken but destroyed um liament gone or severed so they had be replaced and that surgery was the couple yeah was taking place when I was supposed to be flying out contesting for this Olympic bid.”
“I remember sitting back in 2023 trying to figure out what the heck am I going to do and thinking back to just my friends and the promise that I made to them that I was going to go after these records and it came together and I thought well I guess this is the plan we're going to go after the Outdoor World Record why not.”
“I always have a bicycle I will always ride and enjoy it and uh but what that competition will look like it's unknown at this time.”
HEAR IT ON THE PODCAST
Episodes where Ryan Collins covers ultra-endurance riding and related ground.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Ryan Collins say about ultra-endurance riding?
Ryan Collins, ultra cyclist holding multiple wuca/guinness world records, including the 6-hour indoor velodrome record (~277 km) and 6-hour outdoor velodrome record (259 km) set in 2024, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Collins lands on ultra-endurance riding. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Collins's main point on ultra-endurance?
Sustained ultra efforts are paced flat — spikes in power cost far more over hours than they save.
Which Roadman Cycling Podcast episodes cover Ryan Collins on ultra-endurance?
Collins discusses ultra-endurance riding in this episode: "46.6 km/hr for 6 Hours | Roadman Cycling Podcast".
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