Exactly, I can ride a long time (only started any serious distance last year) but with average speeds that look very different...
And to answer @tommmmmmm s question: definitely maybe yes!
I don't have a clue if I stand any chance to be just moderately fast at this kind of thing, but riding far is just amazing.
Motivated by dotwatching last year I tried to do the local brevet series here in Berlin this year.
Didn't finish the 600, so the plan of riding Audaxeurs Randonneurs Allemagnes 25th anniversary event in September (Paris to hamburg) is out of the window due to not being a super randonneur.
Was not very motivated for the 600 to begin with (7 in the morning start time is not my thing to begin with), then my riding buddy ate a fish sandwich with foreseeable consequences. We also have a problem being nicotine addicts which means a lot of bad things, but also more breaks. And nothing makes you slower than breaks.
But what broke our spirit was seeing the crashed recumbent of a fellow rider 300km in.
Policeman at the scene told us that the rider was likely to die (not true, he's well as far as I know).
But seeing what looked like the result of someone trying to overtake to closely really broke our spirit.
We continued to 400 and then did some 60kms of MTBing to the nearest train station.
The deaths in recent events really hit me, and I don't really feel like busy roads.
Exactly, I can ride a long time (only started any serious distance last year) but with average speeds that look very different...
And to answer @tommmmmmm s question: definitely maybe yes!
I don't have a clue if I stand any chance to be just moderately fast at this kind of thing, but riding far is just amazing.
Motivated by dotwatching last year I tried to do the local brevet series here in Berlin this year.
Didn't finish the 600, so the plan of riding Audaxeurs Randonneurs Allemagnes 25th anniversary event in September (Paris to hamburg) is out of the window due to not being a super randonneur.
Was not very motivated for the 600 to begin with (7 in the morning start time is not my thing to begin with), then my riding buddy ate a fish sandwich with foreseeable consequences. We also have a problem being nicotine addicts which means a lot of bad things, but also more breaks. And nothing makes you slower than breaks.
But what broke our spirit was seeing the crashed recumbent of a fellow rider 300km in.
Policeman at the scene told us that the rider was likely to die (not true, he's well as far as I know).
But seeing what looked like the result of someone trying to overtake to closely really broke our spirit.
We continued to 400 and then did some 60kms of MTBing to the nearest train station.
The deaths in recent events really hit me, and I don't really feel like busy roads.
My plan is Bikepacking Trans Germany next year because its convenient and then take it from there.