Idai Makaya

Name: Idai Makaya (UK).

Age: Born in 1974.

Personal Information: Married to Ivy – we have a daughter and a son.

Interests: Long-distance/ultra-endurance sports, martial arts, health & fitness writing, and building the ElliptiGO Community.

Sporting Background: Running, martial arts, ElliptiGO cycling, general fitness.

Why I’m doing PBP 2015: For the atmosphere, because it’s such an historical cycling event, for the purity of striving to complete the challenge, and to be a part of this historical ElliptiGO Team Endurance Challenge.

Something most people don’t know about me: I used to regularly complete half marathon running events in about 90 minutes – and for about 20 years I found running to be a fun way to stay in peak shape. But I completely stopped running after I did this 2010 interview with the runner Dean Karnazes – which had led to me taking up ElliptiGO training, instead. I now find ElliptiGO cycling even more fun than running…

Favourite Phrases:

  • “Trust in the Lord with all of your heart, lean not on your own understanding…”
  • “In all toil there is profit, but mere talk leads only to want…”
  • “We choose to go to the moon… and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…”
  • “Where the mind GOes, the body will follow…”
  • “Adversity usually presents an opportunity for us to truly define ourselves…”

Other: Why do I do this? My PBP 2015 training programme and my PBP 2015 training, qualification & results list.


My PBP 2015 Results:

Contrôle Km Temps Passage Moyenne tronçon Moyenne Totale
START 0 16/08 17:17
VILLAINES 221 12:15 17/08 05:32 18 km/h 18 km/h
FOUGERES 310 18:00 17/08 11:17 15.4 km/h 17.2 km/h
TINTENIAC 364 21:17 17/08 14:34 16.4 km/h 17.1 km/h
LOUDEAC 449 27:09 17/08 20:26 14.4 km/h 16.5 km/h
CARHAIX 525 32:52 18/08 02:09 13.2 km/h 15.9 km/h
BREST 618 39:17 18/08 08:34 14.4 km/h 15.7 km/h
CARHAIX 703 45:23 18/08 14:40 13.9 km/h 15.4 km/h
LOUDEAC 782 51:06 18/08 20:23 13.8 km/h 15.3 km/h
TINTENIAC
FOUGERES
VILLAINES 1009 68:36 19/08 13:53
MORTAGNE 1090 74:07 19/08 19:24 14.6 km/h 14.7 km/h
DREUX 1165 79:29 20/08 00:46 13.9 km/h 14.6 km/h
FINISH 1230 83:38 20/08 04:55 15.6 km/h 14.7 km/h

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