Dean Phillips Hour record challenger men 45 49

[Music] hi my name is Dean Phillips I'm from W of Massachusetts I'm here to attempt my first hour record um I I'm very nervous right now because this is before the record um so the I haven't done one before and I have some expectations in mind but I know that it's uh you really have no idea how this is going to go till the end uh so but I'm looking forward to it and I'm also looking forward to it being over you are the most [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] so at the 15minute Mark Dean Phillips has exceeded 50 km per hour looking good we're at the halfway mark his strategy is to increase the pace in the second half it's time to beat for the world record there's distance to beat for the world record is 50731 for the American record 50245 so Dean what happened out there what happened out there uh I actually felt like it was going well and uh I had a plan i' gone over with with Dave to you know first first goal was to go over 50 km I know it's on a actual record the USA Record was 50 and a quarter that's KOB Pierce uh who I know and so that was the second goal then the third goal was the world record I had a sense pressure is high to I don't think I could do the world record today and I told Dave that uh so we set out at reasonable you know conservative Pace then five or 10 minutes in I felt very good and I'm listening to my breathing I uh everything I told him I only want to do 17.8 splits and uh 176 you know fast I was even backing off and they were still there this went on for 5 10 15 minutes I actually convinced myself that I'm going to do it I'm going to go the whole way I'm only 15 minutes in I wait till 20 minutes to ramp it up and then from 20 minutes to 25 that's when I could hear my breathing and I think I started cooking and then you promise you're never going to quit I'm going to finish this thing maybe I can hold over 50 km in this laugh everything just oh there's nothing you can do my seat killed I kept trying to stand up I kept saying I'm going to finish I'm going to finish this I'm Rel least go the whole hour and then 100 laps an eternity later there 99 laps to go and oh all I wanted to do was stop and So eventually that's all that's all I could do so well you were looking good for the first half there Valiant effort and uh yeah you live to fight another day yeah better to try and fail than not try at all that's right okay okay well it's great to watch you anyway thank you uh thanks for this