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Why Would Someone Ride Their Bike Across America?
By Lance Winslow
Recently I had mentioned is someone that I was going to ride my bicycle across America. Now I am not a professional cyclist by any means actually I am a runner from my college days. They asked me if I was going to set up a blog for my bike ride. Regarding the bike ride Blog idea, that is a pretty good idea really. However, I will be riding 200 miles a day full tilt and will not have any additional time to write on it or way too do it, as the bike will not have internet access.
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Most likely I will be riding 17 plus hours per day straight thru. Not a pleasure ride more like a test of perseverance, human will and strength of character to prove something to myself really. Must be a middle age 40- year old crisis thing? Who knows. I need to get back to being me again.
It would be good to have a support team in place, but that is a lot to do considering, I will be dead reckoning so to speak and play it by ear. I know myself and it is hard to stop me from going the extra mile. I just keep on going until I run out of room to run. Indeed, I have a basic route, but no time-table. If I feel like riding thru the night I will, if I can't I will sleep instead.
Generally I am good for one 40-hour session every other day. Do not know yet if I can do this on a bike, but I think so. A lot depends on wind, weather and type of bike. If it is light enough I can go further faster in one sitting? I wonder what the world record is for the fastest crossing. I can trade sleep for lack of speed? Well I guess you can see why I am going to cycle across America now? How about you, why are you considering doing something spectacular in your life?
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