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Averaging 200 Miles Per Day by Bicycle
By mike | September 24, 2007
From Lance Winslow, special to ClydesdaleFitness.com
Is it possible for a human being to ride a bicycle over 200 miles every single day for three weeks in a row? If so you may be able to go across the entire United States in just over three weeks. In fact I recently plotted this out because I have been considering crossing the United States on a bicycle and my goal will be to ride 200 miles every single day. Now some days going over mountains it may be nearly impossible to do that in 10 to 17 hours and therefore you may actually go all for your 24-hour time limit.
Nevertheless the trick would be to ride an average of 200 miles per day across the United States until you were done and if that meant some days you may ride a little less than 200 miles in an actual 24-hour periods so be it. But the question in everyone’s mind remains is it possible and can it be done? Surely someone like Lance Armstrong could do it, although he would have no reason to prove himself.
My question is not if Lance Armstrong can do it because I know he probably can, my question is can I do it; a normal person. Not the world’s best bike rider. Averaging 200 miles per day by bicycle is probably possible by going in increments of 50 miles with a break and then do it four times a day. This would be to shifts four hours rest and four more hours and take a bigger break and then riding for another eight hours broken down once again into four-hour shifts. Can it be done that is the question I ask and his since no one can answer my question I will have to find out the hard way. Wish me luck.
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September 27th, 2007 at 12:45 am
If this gentleman can do that, hats off to him, but personally, it seems rather unlikely to go 200 miles per day across the US unless maybe the winds are blowing hard, the weather is perfect and the bike is 17 lbs. and he travels with no gear and a support team. Either way, this I would like to see. - Billy