(CNN) – He might be 105 years old but there’s just no stopping Frenchman Robert Marchand in his pursuit of new cycling records.
The centenarian cyclist, who became vegetarian a month ago, pedaled 22.547 kilometers (14 miles) in 60 minutes at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome outside Paris Wednesday.
His distance fell short of the 26.927 kilometers (16.73 miles) he managed in 2014, but is still a new record in the 105-and-above category.
“I didn’t see the sign for the last 10 minutes, otherwise I could have gone faster,” Marchand told BFMTV.
Britain’s Sir Bradley Wiggins holds the outright mile record with a distance of 54.526km (33.88 miles).
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"He is very small but his heart is very big": This 105-year-old cyclist just set a new distance record https://t.co/Ye1JXhESYW pic.twitter.com/3YLg34W2P0
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