<\/p>\nTwo days before the \u201cmythical climb\u201d, Stetina posted on social media, \u201cthis has been my major 2025 objective all along. Over the last 2 months I\u2019ve both enjoyed and agonized over stripping my body and bike down to a pure climbing apparatus.\u201d<\/p>\n
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For the 52nd edition, Stetina\u2019s stated goal was to beat the \u201call-time record\u201d, including his father\u2019s time of 57:41, and the 2020 time of 49:24 set by Tom Danielson. After the road was fully paved in 2022, records were reset, with Phil Gaimon establishing the new benchmark at 50:38.<\/p>\n
After receiving a late invitation from Stetina, Ian Boswell proceeded to not only beat his friend but also set a new men\u2019s course record in the process. Though Boswell lives in New England, he had never set his sights on the legendary climb until Saturday.<\/p>\n
Boswell clocked a time of 50:18, besting by 20 seconds the previous record, while Stetina set a time of 51:38 to take second place behind Boswell.<\/p>\n
\u201cI shot for the stars, and held that pace for 60% of the mountain, but it was clear my body simply said [nope] today. Things weren\u2019t clicking early and I was far off my numbers from training,\u201d Stetina posted.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI flopped. I probably cared too much, I probably convinced myself this sinus infection wouldn\u2019t make a difference either: but missing the mark is my reality and there\u2019s no changing that. To have a dreaded off-day on THE day sucks: time waits for no one. To admit this failure after publicly announcing my intention cuts even deeper. I currently don\u2019t know where or how to rebound from here for the short term.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stetina, who moved from the pro road peloton to a successful gravel privateer six years ago, is slated to race Lauf Gravel Worlds in Nebraska, next weekend.<\/p>\n
Another record was set in the women\u2019s race with Illi Gardner, setting a time of 58:07, beating the 2024 record of 1:06:08 set by Kristen Kulchinsky. Gardner, three-time winner of the British National Hill Climb Championships, tackled the Mount Kearsarge Hill Climb and Mount Ascutney in preparation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Stetina had come to New Hampshire with an aim to set a new course record at Mt.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-74419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}