Sanders is an ultra-endurance athlete, competing in Ironman triathlons that include a 3.8-kilometre swim followed by a 180k bike and a marathon run.
He claimed the men’s ITU world long-distance triathlon championship and also placed second in the world Ironman championship in Kona, H
The cycling record was a test of his top-end bike speed, over a relatively short distance for him, in an unfamiliar environment.
Sanders trained on the Milton velodrome just half a dozen times before Friday’s assault on the record
“Learning the velodrome on a very tight timeline, it was expensive to do the training, five hundred dollars
every time I went there to do a two-hour session there,” he said.
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