Editing Graeme Obree (section)

=== Taking the record ===
Obree attacked Moser's record, on 16 July 1993, at the [[Vikingskipet]] [[velodrome]] in Norway.<ref group="n">The track, 250m round, was built of Siberian pine in three and a half weeks to convert the indoor speed skating arena to a velodrome for the cycling world championships, and was removed shortly afterwards.</ref> He failed by nearly a kilometre.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/cyclists/british/graeme-obree/| title=Graeme Obree| publisher=Cycling Info| date=17 June 2008}}</ref> He had booked the track for 24 hours and decided to come back the next day.<ref name="Tel2007" /><ref name=Grdn>{{cite news|last1=Clemitson|first1=Suze|title=Why Jens Voigt and a new group of cyclists want to break the Hour record|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/100-tours-100-tales/2014/sep/19/why-jens-voigt-and-a-new-group-of-cyclists-want-to-break-the-hour-record|access-date=19 September 2014|newspaper=The Guardian|date=19 September 2014}}</ref> The writer Nicholas Roe said:

:To stop his aching body seizing up, Obree then took the unusual measure of drinking pint upon pint of water so that he had to wake up to go to the lavatory every couple of hours through the night. Each time he got up, he stretched his muscles. On the next weary day, he was up and out within minutes, at the deserted velodrome by 7:55 am and on the track ready to start just five minutes after that. He had barely slept. He had punished his body hugely the previous day. Surely this was a waste of time?<ref name="Tel2007" />

Obree said:

:I was [[Butch Cassidy]] in terms of swagger. I didn't want any negativity. This was [[blitzkrieg]]. I'm going in there. Let me do it. I'm not going to be the timorous guy from Scotland. That's what the difference was. Purely mental state. The day before, I had been a mouse. Now I was a lion.<ref name="Tel2007" />

On 17 July 1993, Obree set a new record of 51.596&nbsp;kilometres, beating Moser's record of 51.151&nbsp;kilometres by 445 metres.<ref name="Indy06">{{cite news |last=Campbell |first=Alastair |date=September 22, 2011 |title=Graeme Obree: 'I was driven by fear' |newspaper=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/graeme-obree-i-was-driven-by-fear-411453.html |access-date=March 19, 2021}}</ref>