Nashik: Lt Col Bharat Pannu (35) from Nashik has become the fastest Indian to complete Ultra Spice Cycling Race that began on January 26 at in Goa. He cycled 1,750 km in 95 hours breaking the previous record of Col Srinivas Gokulnath, who was also based in Nashik.Col Gokulnath had completed the race in 98 hours last year. The time allotted for finishing the race was 120 hours. Pannu finished the race on Wednesday morning at 6:30 am securing a lead of over five hours from the second finisher, Kabir Rachure from Mumbai. There were seven cyclists in the category of 1,750 km. The other categories were 600 km and 1,000 km. The race will conclude on January 31.Last year, Pannu finished the race last year in 113 hours and 13 minutes.The race starts from Bogmalo beach and goes through the coast crossing coconut tree-lined creeks, before turning inland from Honavar towards Jog Falls, where the route goes through the forest and plantation-covered mountainsin Karnataka and then Kerala and Tamil Nadu, climbs on to Ooty and returns along the coast back to Bogmalo beach.

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