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Sounds like fun! Pre-fatherhood I would have loved to do that but a bit harder to plan nowadays...
I understand what you say about it being hard psychologically now. You're at the stage of having essentially cracked it but, because of the scale of the thing, it is still a hell of a long way to go in actual km and hours. I recall feeling a bit similar one level down in scale at the end of long rides: on my first PBP when I tried to ride the last 300km on a couple of croissants, and TCR, when I felt I didn't need to pedal any more and could just walk the last 80km.
I've not done any 600km audaxes for a few years as, for me, the second day is always a real anti-climax, when I have all day to ride 200-and-a-bit km slowly when I am tired and sore. It's not a major challenge to do it but it still needs to be done to seal the deal.
Having other mini-challenges on the way might be the best way. Your Dutch trip is a good one. And anything else that distracts from the big picture.
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'You're at the stage of having essentially cracked it but, because of the scale of the thing, it is still a hell of a long way to go in actual km and hours' This is exactly it.
I'm going to take a long weekend every month to keep on top of the distance and do some of my favourite longer routes. I don't want to go to mad with mini-challenges due to injuring with the idea of a racing. I'm keen on adapting my riding to training, some intervals and cadence work would help to keep my mind interested especially while on the turbo which I'm finding boring AF.
The Holland trip will be to test my new Isen r3 which hopefully I can get built up to where I want by late spring. Essentially i need a decent set of wheels for this and the frame will be ready by Jan/Feb.
The reason why I'm doing this challenge is definitely keeping me motivated, I'm keen to push the charity side of this more. I haven't had much correspondence with CALM so I'm going to poke them this week. I feel on top of the riding side of this challenge, it's just the publicity part which I haven't a lot of except for a little bit of Instagram.
Norfolkbound
To update you, yesterday I was on day 254 at 25,451km. Last week I managed 706km which I was pleased with and I'm planning on taking Friday off to get back to being over 100km up. I did a good ride yesterday afternoon so I'm feeling back to normal post Further East.
I'm finding this part of the challenge odd as there's obviously a few months to go but I'm in a position that I feel it's achievable. I'm also planning what I want to do next year, one trip will be a weekend trip to Holland and cycling the length of the country. Ferry after work on Friday from Harwich and one back on Sunday night ready to be at work on Monday. Who's in??