Housewife set cycling records

Beryl Burton set a ton of cycling records while a housewife...


Beryl Burton's records:

10 miles: 21 mins, 25 seconds - set in 1973 - broken in 1993

25 miles: 53:21 - set in 1976 - broken in 1996

30 miles: 1:08:36 - set in 1981 - broken in 1991

50 miles: 1:51:30 - set in 1976 - broken in 1996

100 miles: 3:55:05 - set in 1968 - broken in 1986

12 hour: 277.25 miles - set in 1967 - still stands

A Mr. Richard Feder of Fort Lee, New Jersey writes, “Is there some significance to her being wed to a house? Would she have been more or less successful had she married a person? Could she have even achieved similarly if she had never married at all?”