You know.....I wonder if I actually could ride 77 miles in one day.
I'm sore just thinking about it.
I think I'll make it there, all the same. But I might have to do some creative route editing.
Nothing to say we have to go whole route or not take a few short cuts if needed. The main thing is that we just have an enjoyable fun ride and have the option for about as short or long of a ride we feel like taking. Don't want anyone going home feeling worse then when they came. Also don't want this to be an endurance challenge...just want to have the option there to be able to cruise as long as we feel like riding.
There would also be several planned stops along the way to break up the ride where we can spend as much or as little time as we want shootin the breeze, stretching, etc.
Our ride this last June we were a bit hurried because we were trying to get our ride in before it started raining, but hopefully next year we will have a nice day where we can take more time to do more pitt stops and do some chit chatting along the route.
A non stop ride of 70 miles would be brutal and for me darn near impossible, but if there were designated stops about every 10 miles with plenty of time given to stretch and move about for a bit...it would make the ride much more doable for sure.
If one thinks about riding 25 mph for 70 miles on a straight stretch of Highway...that actually sounds kinda daunting. However when you have 8 or 9 little towns and various landmarks along the route to break things up...it really seams much shorter and goes by quicker then you think. Also when doing a big circle like the route I have mapped out...you are never actually any more then 15 to 20 miles from where you started at almost any time along the route. Works out well if you decide to make the ride shorter that you don't have to backtrack a bunch of miles. You can just turn towards the starting location and be back there in a fair amount of time without have to backtrack.
