Rail Trail "double" record broken by nearly 3 hours!

In the early hours of Thursday morning well known Hervey Bay mountain biker Mike Zande set off from Kilkivan on an attempt to break Jason Black's South Burnett-Brisbane Valley Rail Trail "double" record and become only the second person to complete the 307km journey to Wulkuraka near Ipswich in a single day. 

Along the way he broke Andrew Handyside's Kilkivan-Kingaroy record (set in December 2017) by 4 minutes and 3 seconds, and with "great trail conditions" Zande said "on paper I thought I could go under 14 hours (to Wulkuraka)". After struggling between Yimbun Tunnel and Mt Hallen, he finally rolled into Wulkuraka station at 7:45pm, making a new record of 13 hours 53 minutes, nearly 3 hours faster than the previous record set in May last year.

Zande was congratulated on his achievement by previous record holder Jason Black.

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